John Paul Lederach - Peacebuilding, critical yeast, and the language of imagination

I've been following John Paul Lederach's work for years, finding the words he uses inordinately relevant to all of the details and spaces of my life. John Paul is Professor of International Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame. He has been a teacher to me across time and space and I believe the ideas he brings into the world are teachers we all need for the world we are walking into.

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Show Notes:

• Vocation (12:00)
• The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peaceby John Paul (12:30)
• Rumi poetry and the reed flute (19:00)
• Ongoingness (21:00)
• Peacebuilding (21:20)
• Pádraig Ó Tuama (31:00)
• wonder, wander, and wait (36:00)
• 'bearing witness to more of the complexity of the other' (37:30)
• collective empathy (40:00)
• Paulo Freire (44:00)
• critical yeast (46:00)
• Francisco Varela and "The Logic of Paradise" (54:00)
• Mind and Life Dialogues (54:00)
• Poetry (55:00)
• Eduardo Galeano (56:00)
• Donald Hall (01:03:00)
• Ai-jen Poo (01:11:00)
• Lightning Round (01:05:00)
  • Book: Tomorrow's Child by Rubem Alves
  • Passion: poetry and physics
  • Heart sing: podcasting
  • Screwed up: the significance and challenge of patience
• Find John Paul online:
  • https://www.johnpaullederach.com/

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