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Copyright 2007 Herald press

This workbook is an invaluable resource for church leaders and congregational members, who are called upon to moderate and somehow bring resolution to those conflicts. Transforming Conflict will walk your church through the steps of: understanding the nature of conflict and what the Bible has to say about it; ascertaining which level of conflict your church is in; interpreting how your congregation arrived at that level and how to keep it from escalating; putting together a realistic and healthy plan to transform your conflict; and, if needed, how and when to get outside help.

Copyright 2002.

John Paul Lederach shares insight gained from years of work in international mediation and deep spiritual reflection on the task of reconciliation. He draws on personal experiences in deep-rooted conflict and relates them to the biblical narrative of God seeking reconciliation throughout history. Conflict will come. We choose how we respond to it. True reconciliation must couple spiritual disciplines with personal, social, and international capacities to interact helpfully with conflict. The author accompanies people divided by hatred and violence on their journey to encounter themselves, each other, and god.

People in all walks of life and in various settings will find this book compelling and insightful. Lederach offers help for conflicted families, church communities, neighborhoods, and nations working toward healing and understanding.

Copyright 2005 Good Books

Let's Talk,a complete revision of the 1983 title, Communication Skills and Conflict Resolution, is a tool to get Christians thinking, talking, and living out effective skills in interpersonal communication, transforming conflict into growth. As a workbook for group study, Let's Talk includes a personal inventory on our conflict management styles, discussion guides, personal reflection exercises, role plays for active listening and appropriate speaking, and much more. A leader's guide is also included at the back. Copyright 1999.

Peacemakers use spiritual weapons to strike at sinful strongholds surrounding local ministry. Some may not understand their actions. But if peacemakers stay in God's presence, God will lead them to spiritual victory in conflict resolution. Surving Church Conflict calls would-be peacemakers to allow themselves to be spiritually broken before God. Only thus can they discover the will of God and live in it peaceably.

Here is a practical guide to understanding and transforming conflict based on biblical and Anabaptist principles. Over twenty noted authors shaped by many experiences and cultures tell of lessons taught by walking conflict's holy ground. Some insights will be familiar, some new--and some able to trigger new conflict!

Study groups will find this an excellent resource. Study questions continue the conversation begun in each of seventeen chapters and will help highlight the common ground as well as differences readers may have with authors and each other.

Imagine being an effective peacemaker in a maelstrom of hatred, escalated feelings. Imagine being able to understand the basis for human conflict and to see its predictability. Imagine being empathic, centered, and balanced even as the waves of anger and emotion crash around you. These skills are achievable, but only with a deep and broad knowledge of human conflict.

Peacemaking is foundational in that it does not talk much of technique, but rather of the deeper whys of conflict and conflict resolution. To plumb these whys, Peacemaking takes on such diverse subjects as philosophy and conflict, religion and conflict, conflict resolution systems, game theory, conflict behaviors, apology and forgiveness, and ethics to build a framework of understanding and knowledge for those interested in pursuing peacemaking.

Copyright 2003.