More Justice, More Peace

More Justice, More Peace: When Peacemakers Are Advocates gives voice to the conundrum of how mediators and other impartial third-party intervenors can revisit their roles in turbulent times. Designed to be used by conflict practitioners (mediators, facilitators, negotiators) and those in other professions where dealing with injustice is a constant struggle, the book's contributions show that impartial parties can be advocates for justice. In this engaging collection of personal stories, seasoned mediators show how they have worked to help justice emerge in or as a result of conflicts in families, institutions, organizations, and communities and across geographic boundaries. From the streets of Baltimore and Charlottesville to Karachi and Berlin, we hear of divided communities, terrible losses, relational wounds that appear to be beyond healing. We hear also of courage, compassion, imagination, and heart. These conflict practitioners are paving the way for others to see beyond conventional limits on the practice of mediation. Essential reading for students and practitioners alike, this work continues a much-needed conversation around the future of the conflict resolution field and will be an inspiration to anyone who wants to make a difference in the world.
More Justice, More Peace: When Peacemakers are Advocates is an attempt to broaden the vision of those practitioners with a passion for bringing about necessary change in our society who also work to bring people together to explore issues, solve problems, and overcome differences.
More Justice, More Peace is an impressive compilation of articulate voices from a community of innovative, problem-solving pathfinders and conflict resolution trailblazers. It addresses head-on the perennial paradox of how so-called impartial intervenors/third parties handle the questionable notion that dispute resolvers are to be neutral and are not to be advocates. In fifteen chapters, practitioners describe their conflict journeys and experiences that go beyond status quo affirming practices and processes. Each story told here opens a portal beyond neutrality to the promising frontiers of just peace in our evolving futures. It is a useful guide for the conflict-perplexed.--Thomas A. Fee, public policy mediator since 1985; nonviolence and nonkilling advocate
The work of justice is not the exclusive province of the courts, it belongs to everyone. The contributors to this book demonstrate the special courage and enduring work needed to make justice and peace accessible to the most vulnerable in our communities. More Justice, More Peace is a must read for anyone who cares about justice and peace--and that should be all of us.--Michael John Aloi, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Northern District of West Virginia; former state court judge; mediator; president of ACR; and chair of the ACR Spirituality Section
What happens when we give justice a seat at the same table as those we serve with our conflict engagement skills and processes? Through the stories of those who've forged unconventional paths with their conflict engagement skills, this remarkable book paints a powerful picture of what becomes possible when we choose to work at the intersection of neutrality and activism, justice and accord.--Tammy Lenski, mediator and author of The Conflict Pivot