Table of Contents

Foreword by George Lakey
About Quakers and the Author
Introduction
Using This Book
      Activity: Learning Contract or Journaling
      Activity: Your Values and a Special Person
      Activity: Your Strengths

Section 1: Peace and Power
1. What Peace is Not
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Group Ideas — What Peace is Not
      Example: Experience Changes Beliefs in Kenya

2. Us and Others
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Transforming Bias

3. Power-over
      Tips from This Chapter

4. Power-with and Power-from- within
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Walk Around
      Activity: Find Your Power-from- within

5. Process and Change
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Meeting an Unsympathetic Politician

Section 2: Communication Skills
6. Firm Belief
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Decision Making
      Activity: Our Position

7. Treating Emotions with Care
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Making Connections

8. Communication
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Rewording a Conflict
      Activity: Concentric Circles
      Questions for This First Concentric Circles Activity

9. Conflict
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: What Would You Need?
      Example: Who Gets Recognized?

Section 3: Violence and Interpersonal Peace
10. Seeing Violence
      Tips from This Chapter

11. What's Natural?
      Tips from This Chapter

12. Safety
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Accepting Everyone
      Example: The Nashville Sit-ins

13. When Hate Rises
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Violence
      Example: Sammy Rangel

14. Violence in Social Change
      Tips from This Chapter
      Example: Elections in Idlib City
      Activity: Four Elements
      Activity: Follow the Leader

15. Who Benefits?
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Mainstream and Margins

16. Oppressors and Victims
      Tips from This Chapter
      Example: Pronouns
      Activity: What's Changed So Far?

Section 4: Inner Peace
17. Connection
      Tips from This Chapter    

18. Changing Ourselves
      Tips from This Chapter
      Activity: Kindness Meditation
      Activity: Gratitude

Section 5: Structural Peace
19. Who's Dreaming?
      Tips from This Chapter

20. Just War, Just Peace, and Responsibility
      Tips from This Chapter
      Example: Healing and Rebuilding our Communities

21. Unarmed Civilian Protection
      Tips from This Chapter
      Example: Bear Clan Patrol
      Activity: De-escalation on the Subway

22. Mediation
      Tips from This Chapter
      Example: Concerned Citizens for Peace

23. Peace Education
      Tips from This Chapter
      Example: Power-with the Smallest Children?
      Activity: Peacebuilding Dreams
      Activity: What is Peace?

24. What Peace Is
      Tips from This Chapter

Appendix 1: What We Mean by a Culture of Peacebuilding
Appendix 2: The Basics of Facilitation
Notes
Index
About New Society Publishers

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About the Author

Matthew Legge has worked in the nonprofit sector for the last 13 years, with a focus on helping people thrive through the full enjoyment of health, dignity, and rights. Since 2012, he has worked with Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC), the peace and social justice agency of the Religious Society of Friends in Canada (Quakers). Quakers are widely respected for their efforts to prevent war and transform conflicts, as well as their impartial support for war victims. As CFSC's Peace Program Coordinator, Matthew has had the opportunity to learn from Quakers across Canada and in the US, Europe, and Africa. He holds a degree in Anthropology from the University of Toronto and served for six years on the board of directors of the Ontario Council for International Cooperation, where he helped develop anti-oppression strategies. Matthew lives in Toronto, Canada.