Conflict Resolution

Making Peace: Telling Truth

From 1959, as a graduate student teaching my first classes, until 2002, when I taught my last classes at Earlham,…

Intersecting Circles

A number of years ago, while teaching at Harvard Divinity School, Henry Cadbury encountered a distraught former student who had…

A Report from a Parallel Universe

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but the means by which we arrive at that goal."…

Peace March

On March 16 my husband and I went to a peace march in Eureka with our good friends Christine and…

Forgiveness: A Personal Journey

1983: Searing hurt and anger. As demanded by my new stepmother, my father has just kicked me out. The new…

Why Quakers Should Learn to Apologize

Forgiveness is popular. Like mercy, "It blesseth him that gives and him that takes" (Portia, in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant…

AVP: An Interview with Steve Angell

Stephen L. Angell was an early participant and continues to be active in the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), a…

Transformation of Violence

Where does it come from—this powerful rush of emotion and adrenaline that society labels as violence? Nothing has ever been…

Doing Hard Time

HIPP (Help Increase the Peace Project) is a conflict resolution program adapted for teens from the Alternatives to Violence Project…

Conflict Resolution as a Sacred Practice

As a nurse educator with 25 years of clinical experience in mental health, I had long considered myself proficient in…