DIRK WILLEMS S2E57

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Dr. Andrea Bartoli and prof. emeritus Vern Neufeld Redekop shares how Dirk Willems' story helped to forge a deep and lasting relationship between the two. === Andrea Bartoli is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Peacemaking Practice, as well as the President of the Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue. He works primarily on Peacemaking and Genocide Prevention. The Founding Director of Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), a Visiting Scholar at the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) – Columbia University, and a CORE Fellow at Seton Hall University, Dr. Bartoli has taught in the US since 1994. He chaired the Columbia University Seminar on Conflict Resolution. === A world-renown scholar in Peace and Conflict Studies, Professor emeritus Vern Neufeld Redekop is the former President of the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution (CICR). The training and program development at CICR has taken him to Indigenous communities in Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sudan, Taiwan, and other countries. He initiated the Integrative Peacebuilding Program at the Professional Development Institute (PDI) at the University of Ottawa. The author of From Violence to Blessing: How an Understanding of Deep-Rooted Conflict Can Open Paths to Reconciliation (Novalis, 2002) translated in French and Arabic, Co-edited with Shirley Paré Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd – Police Relations (Bloombury, 2010), Co-author of Introduction to Conflict Studies; Empirical, Theoretical, and Ethical Dimensions (Oxford University Press, 2012), Co-editor with Gloria Neufeld Redekop of Awakening: Exploring Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation (Lexington Books, 2019), editor of René Girard and Creative Mimesis (2016, Lexington Books) and René Girard and Creative Reconciliation (2010, Lexington Books) both with Thomas Ryba, among many other scholarly and non-scholarly articles. === YouTube: YouTube: AWAKENING S1E47; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVZzGJP-kjk&t=439s CONFLICT S1E2; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT7R6v5dCmY&t=1014s SCAPEGOATING S1E3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXYYYikrtYg&list=PL8rwb8JkTNekhjDikeAnLe1wFtqIezGSM&index=5. The Human Experience: VERN NEUFELD REDEKOP; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nfWF-unxgg&list=PL8rwb8JkTNemld0hrSZIRtrvpwTixP_jh === BOOKS BY Prof. Ven Neufeld Redekop: TRANSFORMING: Applying Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation AWAKENING: Exploring Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation: From Violence to Blessing: How an Understanding of Deep-Rooted Conflict Can Open Paths to Reconciliation Introduction to Conflict Studies; Empirical, Theoretical, and Ethical Dimensions MEDIA: Vern Neufeld Redekop YouTube Channel; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4NV1RVt7XMU-RxVtMEIM0g Support the show