From Schirch's decades of experience as a peacebuilding consultant in Africa, Asia, and Latin America comes a bold plan for a peaceful world. Includes four critical actions that must be undertaken if peace is to take root at any level.

So we'd all like a more peaceful world--no wars, no poverty, no more racism, no community disputes, no office tensions, no marital skirmishes. Lisa Schirch sets forth paths to such realities. In fact, she points a way to more than the absence of conflict. She foresees justpeace--a sustainable state of affairs because it is a peace which insists...

Long practiced in leading tough discussions between fractured parties around the world, Schirch and Campt offer the tools necessary to transform dialogue between parties, facing a difficult discussion.

Clear and easy-to-use.

The word "dialogue" suffers from over-use, yet its practice is as transforming and as freshly hopeful as ever. Authors Schirch and Campt demonstrate dialogue's life and possibilities in this clear and absorbing manual: "Dialogue allows people in conflict to listen to each other, affirm their common ground, and explore their differences in a safe...

The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremism.

The Ecology of Violent Extremism brings together leading theorists and practitioners to describe an ecological or systems approach to violent extremism.