This book describes Rondine Cittadella della Pace and its unique residential peacebuilding program that works with young activists from some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones. Set in its own Tuscan village, Rondine invites students to its two-year long residential program that provides them with a master's degree, trauma healing, and training in peacebuilding. While at Rondine, students work in pairs representing "both sides" of a conflict and prepare projects that they will put into place when they return home. Half of the book is devoted to an in-depth description of the Rondine method by its founder, Franco Vaccari, while the remainder consists of essays by Italian and American experts, including the two editors, providing the religious, psychological, and political context for this innovative psycho-social method of conflict resolution.
Franco Vaccari is the founder and president of Rondine, Cittadella Della Pace, and is a practicing psychotherapist. Miguel H. Diaz is the John Courtney Murray University Chair of Public Service at Loyola University Chicago and former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. Charles Hauss is veteran activist, author of eighteen books in comparative politics and peacebuilding, and is Senior Fellow for Innovation at the Alliance for Peacebuilding.
Acknowledgements Foreword. Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Rondine Association (Pope Francis) Introduction. On the Love of God and Our Enemies: Hospitality and The Rondine Method (Miguel H. Diaz) Part 1. The Rondine Method (Franco Vaccari) Chapter 1. The Steps Toward Trust Chapter 2. The Other Person in the Relationship Chapter 3. The Heart of the Rondine Method: The Relational Approach to Conflict Chapter 4. Putting the Relational Model to the Test Chapter 5. Some Final Thoughts and Next Steps Part 2. Responses to the Rondine Method Chapter 6. Rondine Cittadella Della Pace: An Open-Air Laboratory About Intergroup Conflict and Intergroup Contact Theory (Pagani, Ariela, Bertoni, Anna, Garuglieri, A., & Iafrate, Raffaella) Chapter 7. The Rondine Method and the Three Ds (Michael David Kaiser) Chapter 8. Rondine Method and Creative Conflict Transformation: Insights From Contact Theory and Interreligious Peacebuilding (Gerard Powers) Chapter 9. The Rondine Method: Building Peace through Compassion (Daniel Rothbart and Susan Allen) Conclusion. Today Rondine, Tomorrow the World (Charles Hauss) Bibliography About the Contributors Index
