Global crises-from pandemics to climate change-demonstrate the vulnerability of the biosphere and each of us as individuals, calling for responses guided by creative analysis and compassionate reflection. Transforming, building on its companion volume, Awakening, explores actions that create paths of understanding and collaboration as the groundwork for transformative community. The community of scholars in this volume offers perspectives that collectively form a complex tapestry of resources. The volume engages with the complex range of challenges and possibilities across a variety of sectors, and provides an interdisciplinary approach to the prospects for transformative healing of human and non-human communities, and the global environment we inhabit. Spirituality is essential to this, and, as such, the work explores vital dimensions of emerging spiritual concepts, methods, and practices that harbor interfaith potential for genuine reconciliation and communion.
Acknowledgements Introduction: Transforming: Inside and Out by Gloria Neufeld Redekop and Vern Neufeld Redekop Part 1: Violence, Spirituality, and Reconciliation Chapter 1: Reconciliation as Emergent Creativity by Vern Neufeld Redekop Chapter 2: The Biology of Emotion: Implications for Self-Development, Spirituality, and Justice by Katherine Peil Kauffman Chapter 3: Violence, Reconciliation, and the Significance of the Subtle Mystical Dimension in the Light of Rene Girard's Battling to the End by Petra Steinmair- Poesel Chapter 4: Coming to Terms with Violence and War: The Experience of Mennonite Women and Children in Russia (1917-1925) by Gloria Neufeld Redekop Part 2: Reconciliation as Spiritual Praxis Chapter 5: Relational Ecosystem for Peace (REP): From Division to Deep Connection with Compassionate Listening by Brigitte Gagnon Chapter 6: Interworldview Dialogue (IWVD): The Emergence of an Applied Theory for Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding by Patrice C. Brodeur Chapter 7: The Denouement of Religious Leader Engagement in the Canadian Armed Forces by S. K. Moore Chapter 8: RLE from the Balcony: The Domestic Application of Religious Leader Engagement by Karen Hamilton Chapter 9: Creative Dialogue between Muslim and Western Worlds towards Reconciliation and Addressing Violent Extremism: A Muslim Perspective by Iman Ibrahim Chapter 10: Arts Literacy and Nonviolent Social Change: Re-envisioning Spirituality through Creative Practice by Lauren Michelle Levesque Part 3: Indigenous Insights and Challenges for Reconciliation Chapter 11: Transcending Traditional Justice Claims: Challenges of Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation by Joseph Cleyn Chapter 12: Warring with Windigo/Wihtiko: Cree and Algonquian Insights into Spirituality, Emergent Creativity and Reconciliation by Cecil Chabot Chapter 13: Transforming Wihtiko Systems by Catherine Twinn (with thanks to Isaac Twinn) Chapter 14: Transforming "Wicked" Problems in an Integral Manner: The Case of Fly-In Indigenous Communities by Robert Logie Chapter 15: Reconciliation in Australia and Lederach's Moral Imagination by Sue-Anne Hess Part 4: Complexity, Community, and Emergent Development Chapter 16: Harnessing Principles of Complex Systems for Understanding and Modulating Social Structures by Neil D. Theise with Catherine Twinn, Gloria Neufeld Redekop, and Lissane Yohannes Chapter 17: Development as Emergent Creativity by Naresh Singh Chapter 18: Sacred Diplomacy as "The Adjacent Possible Praxis": Transforming Peacebuilding to Meet the Challenges of a Warming Planet by Merle Lefkoff Conclusion by Oscar Gasana Index About the Editors About the Contributors
