John Paul Lederach featured in Christian Century
Followers of JustPeace since its founding remember well the name of John Paul Lederach, one-time faculty member at Eastern Mennonite University and now a professor at Notre Dame, who, as a member of the design team for this organization, argued successfully for it to be named “JustPeace”.
Professor Lederach is interviewed in the December 15, 2009, edition of Christian Century about his ongoing peacemaking work around the world, and about his teaching on the subject. Professor Lederach also was honored this year as the recepient of the annual Reinhold Niebuhr Award at Notre Dame.
During the award ceremony on May 19th, Notre Dame provost Tom Burish said of Lederach,
“As a practitioner of peace, he accompanies the poor, the refugees, and the victims of war — eliciting from them alternatives to violence. His wide-ranging experiences, profound analyses, and deep moral imagination have formed the basis for a corpus of writing that has enlightened peace studies scholars and peacebuilders around the globe. He is, in the words of St. Francis of Assisi, ‘an instrument of peace.’”
You can read about his award here: Lederach Honored for Social Justice
Watch this video about Professor Lederach and Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies:
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Great job on the polishing of this article/link, Adam!