John Paul Lederach

He is the founding director of EMU’s Conflict Transformation Program and its associated Institute for Justice and Peacebuilding. Dr. Lederach has extensive experience as a peacebuilding practitioner, trainer and consultant throughout Latin America, Africa and the U.S.

He has pioneered in developing elicitive methods of conflict resolution training and practice, and is a widely published theorist in both English and Spanish. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado and has been at EMU since 1990.

B.A., Bethel College
Ph.D., University of Colorado

• Into The Eye Of The Storm: A Handbook of International Peacebuilding (co-authored with Janice Jenner)
• Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies
• From the Ground Up : Mennonite Contributions to International Peacebuilding (co-author Cynthia Sampson)
• Journey Toward Reconciliation
• Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)
  * The Little Book of Conflict Transformation
• The Moral Imagination : The Art and Soul of Building Peace