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Lederach, John Paul: Essentials for Relationship Building – Video

John Paul Lederach discusses how neutrality is a myth. The essential factor in building a relationship with parties (in his experience outside the US) is gaining their trust, finding the common ground between the mediator and parties.

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John Paul Lederach

John Paul Lederach is Professor of Practice for International Peacebuilding with the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.  He works as a practitioner-scholar, providing facilitation, mediation and training/education, with extensive experience at national and community levels in North and Latin America, Africa,… MORE >

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