Story-Formed Pathways to Peace: Best Practices for Everyday Life

Story-Formed Pathways to Peace is the second edition of the award-winning - first edition. Though this edition retains the content of the first, it has been expanded to include a very practical "best practice" application at the end of each storied chapter. The stories themselves, retold from ancient sacred texts, have resonated through the ages not only with those religious, but also with thinkers, artists, musicians, and others who have seen in the universal patterns of behavior. The characters in the stories model both negative and positive ways of working with conflict. And the added "best practice" application makes clear how the best that is modeled in each story is exemplary for everyday living in our time, whether in families, communities, and even nations.

Dalton Reimer is a peace educator in the mode of the traditional storyteller. Professionally, he is professor emeritus, former academic dean, and cofounder of the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies at Fresno (California) Pacific University. As an extension of his university involvements, he has retold selected stories of this work with commentary in educational and public settings on ¬five different continents. Using the medium of stories already embraced by a significant portion of the world's population, he has challenged his hearers with new insights and practical applications as he has examined these stories through the lens of conflict and peacemaking. Reimer is also the co-editor of a reader in conflict and peacemaking published in St. Petersburg (Russia) in the Russian language as well as an author of The Making of a Distinctive Church College: The Fresno Pacific Model of Becoming 1960-2000.