Foreword by George Lakey
About Quakers and the Author
Introduction
Using This Book
Activity: Learning Contract or Journaling
Activity: Your Values and a Special Person
Activity: Your Strengths
Section 1: Peace and Power
1. What Peace is Not
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Group Ideas — What Peace is Not
Example: Experience Changes Beliefs in Kenya
2. Us and Others
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Transforming Bias
3. Power-over
Tips from This Chapter
4. Power-with and Power-from- within
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Walk Around
Activity: Find Your Power-from- within
5. Process and Change
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Meeting an Unsympathetic Politician
Section 2: Communication Skills
6. Firm Belief
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Decision Making
Activity: Our Position
7. Treating Emotions with Care
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Making Connections
8. Communication
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Rewording a Conflict
Activity: Concentric Circles
Questions for This First Concentric Circles Activity
9. Conflict
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: What Would You Need?
Example: Who Gets Recognized?
Section 3: Violence and Interpersonal Peace
10. Seeing Violence
Tips from This Chapter
11. What's Natural?
Tips from This Chapter
12. Safety
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Accepting Everyone
Example: The Nashville Sit-ins
13. When Hate Rises
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Violence
Example: Sammy Rangel
14. Violence in Social Change
Tips from This Chapter
Example: Elections in Idlib City
Activity: Four Elements
Activity: Follow the Leader
15. Who Benefits?
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Mainstream and Margins
16. Oppressors and Victims
Tips from This Chapter
Example: Pronouns
Activity: What's Changed So Far?
Section 4: Inner Peace
17. Connection
Tips from This Chapter
18. Changing Ourselves
Tips from This Chapter
Activity: Kindness Meditation
Activity: Gratitude
Section 5: Structural Peace
19. Who's Dreaming?
Tips from This Chapter
20. Just War, Just Peace, and Responsibility
Tips from This Chapter
Example: Healing and Rebuilding our Communities
21. Unarmed Civilian Protection
Tips from This Chapter
Example: Bear Clan Patrol
Activity: De-escalation on the Subway
22. Mediation
Tips from This Chapter
Example: Concerned Citizens for Peace
23. Peace Education
Tips from This Chapter
Example: Power-with the Smallest Children?
Activity: Peacebuilding Dreams
Activity: What is Peace?
24. What Peace Is
Tips from This Chapter
Appendix 1: What We Mean by a Culture of Peacebuilding
Appendix 2: The Basics of Facilitation
Notes
Index
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