For Peace Handbook

An educational and training instrument, the Handbook for Peace provides a compilation of tried and tested as well as cutting-edge methods put together in a highly accessible and easy to follow way. The handbook gives step by step guidance and offers both practical skills and subtle practices to work effectively with conflict and cultivate inner and outer peace – transforming conflicts into opportunities and inspiring positive change.

The handbook will address conflict on a personal, interpersonal, communal, and global level spanning the peace continuum from inner to international. It will go beyond conventional techniques of conflict resolution and peacebuilding, to additionally include cultural, (socio-)psychological, and spiritual dimensions. The main focus will be on how we, as global citizens, can take radical responsibility for ourselves, each other, and the cultural realities that we are together co-creating.

The content of the book intends to inspire and empower people to become conscious agents of change by providing accessible tools for deep, intentional work for mind, body, and spirit in a non-dogmatic and inclusive way. In a clear and creative way, the content of the handbook will help to grow our capacity to embody what we seek in the world and inspire action for peace rooted in a place of intention, presence, and connection.

Relevant topics, among others, include:

• Fundamentals of ‘Relational Presence’

• Key principles of ‘Transparent Communication’

• Basic understandings of how (collective and intergenerational) trauma affects our culture, society, and protracted conflict

• Steps on how we can enhance individual and social healing processes

• An introduction to 'Third Side Conflict Resolution': How to become a ’global social witness’ and ’third sider’

• Transformative justice and embodied social justice practices

• Heart-centering and self-regulating practices