Essays and Reports
Reports from Consulting Projects:
Minneapolis Police/Community Conflict. In a Conflict Resolution class at the University of St. Thomas, I co-taught a case-study about police/community conflict in Minneapolis. A group of students in that class wrote a detailed paper about the topic.
Meeting Victims’ Needs Post-Conviction: I coordinated a study group that wrote this report about how agencies in Minnesota could more fully address the needs of crime victims.
Photo and Video Projects
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See examples of videos I’ve made at: clarityproductions.blogspot.com |
North Minneapolis Places We Love: This is a photo project from the inner-city neighborhood where I used to live.
Living In Truth: Active Nonviolence: This is a talk that I gave at St. Joan of Arc church in Feb. 2004 (12 minutes long, a mp3 audio file).
Winter In This Town: A video I made with some friends (Emily Hughes and Mike Rollin), using a song from another friend (Nora Paoli). Windows Media Format, 1 minute, 20 seconds; 1.5mb.
Friends in El Salvador: Photos and notes from a trip I took to El Salvador as a representative of Northern Yearly Meeting. (added 1/11/02)
Northern Ireland: Photos and notes from a trip to Ireland and Northern Ireland. (added 1/11/02)
Writing about Social Change
An interview project with people who work with conflict about the spiritual foundation of their work. Nifty photomontages too. (added 11/28/00)
Friends for Non-Violent Diversity: A Case Study of One Peace and Justice Organization’s Efforts to Become More Multicultural: In this paper, I look at how the organization I used to work for, Friends for a Non-Violent World, approaches diversity, multiculturalism, and oppression. (added 8/11/01)
How Restorative is AVP? Evaluating the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) According to a Restorative Justice Yardstick: Thinking through what the Alternatives to Violence Project (an experiential conflict transformation training program often done in prisons) would look like if it took the principles of Restorative Justice (offender accountability, repairing harm that has been done, etc..) seriously. (added 4/16/01)
Nonviolent Action, Sexual Orientation, and Eastern Mennonite University: An essay about how methods of nonviolent action could be applied to conflict about sexual orientation on a campus that is unsafe for gay and lesbian people. (added 4/18/01)
Evaluating My Stay at a Juvenile Detention Center: Noticing How Training and Change Move With Each Other : Reflections on a weekend workshop I did at a Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Virginia–and thoughts about useful and strategic ways to evaluate conflict resolution trainings. (added 4/16/01)
Conflict, 140 Freshman, and Me: A paper reflecting on my enthusiastic and fumbling attempts to apply the principles of popular education while teaching academic conflict resolution classes at James Madison University. (added 3/26/01)
Envisioning Conflict, Spirit, and Work Together: An essay describing my visions for how I can combine conflict transformation and spiritual formation in my work. This is a work in progress, and I strongly encourage feedback and co-conspirators! (added 12/13/00)
How I Believe Change Happens: Noncooperation With Evil Systems, Cooperation with God. This is an essay based on my experience helping with trainings for protestors in Cincinnati, Nov. 2000. I talk about how I believe social change happens, drawing from my experiences in Cincinnati and from George Lakey’s writing.(added 12/7/00)
Engaging Inmates in Peacebuilding Work:This is a sample grant proposal I wrote for the “Fundamentals of Peacebuilding Class.” It is based upon activities at Friends for a Non-Violent World, but it is was written for the class and is not being pursued as an actual project (although, who knows, maybe someday it will be, at FNVW or elsewhere). (10/4/00)
Standing Still: The Arrest
Resistance is the Secret of Joy: The Trial These two essays are based upon my experience with civil disobedience and the trail that followed. I was protesting the production of landmines.
Other Writing
The End of Philosophy and the Rise of Film: This is a philosophy paper that uses Martin Heidegger’s writing to talk about the end of traditional philosophy and uses Wim Wender’s films to talk about how movies are replacing some of the purposes of written philosophy. (Written in 1993)
