Talking about peace is not enough. Peacemaking starts with one's inner work, which is is a life long journey of self-reflection, study, and meditation. It may lead one on a spiritual path or not; however, inner work results in deeper personal growth. The outer work is based on devotion to service. Service may take the form of professional mediation for a fee, community service, or simple, everyday peacemaking. Whatever the form of outer work, transformations in your life are sure to occur. This section of the site will lead you to resources you may find useful on your path.
Inner work...Stuff from the Making of a Mediator...Developing emotional intelligence...reprogramming the fear response system. Looking at spiritual traditions as technologies for growth and development.
Outer work....learning and mastering the various processes and methods of peacemaking...classes....trainings....gaining experience...opportunities....learning humility....service to humanity as the philosophical basis of the work....careers...making a living...
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The Peacemakers' Library Amazon lists over 3,000 titles under conflict resolution and 2,000 titles under peacemaking. We have done the work for you by reviewing most of these titles. Our Amazon peacemaking library is here for your use. If you are an author and we neglected your book, let us know and we will be happy to include it. |
Peace Meditations Meditation is an ancient technology for re-progamming the brain. The links here will take you to various sites that offer meditations on peace or that will help you develop inner peace.. |
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Conscious ResolutionIn this question and answer session, Doug talks about consciousness and its role in conflict resolution, mediation, and peacemaking. In his view, conflict is caused by unconsciousness and unawareness. Mediation and peacemaking processes help people become more conscious about themselves, their conflicts, and their choices. Read more ... |
Restorative Justice Restorative Justice is a social movement, philosophy, and practice of peacemaking relating to victims of crimes and their offenders. It finds expression in many types of processes and environments. The links in this section will take you to some starting points for learning about being smart on crime instead of tough on crime. |
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Focused Intention and Peacemaking Empirical science is catching up with mystical tradition and the implications for peacemaking and conflict transformation are astounding. This article is an expansion of a column written for Dispute Resolution Magazine in September 2007 with hyperlinks to sources and references. |
The Path of the Peacemaker Include hyperlinks to Noll Associates, and to Columns & Articles. |
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Understanding Emotions This link will take you to Lee Beaumont's site. Lee has assembled a world class reference that categorizes and describes human emotions. |
