Wendy Wood is a conflict transformation professional, a founder of The Karuna Center, co-author of Do No Harm: Mindful Engagement for a World in Crisis, and founding member of the Democracy Politics and Conflict Engagement (DPACE) Initiative.
We talk about how compassion and harm impact both ourselves and others, our innate capacity for healing trauma and the importance of mutual responsibility.
Read MorePablo Lumerman is a conflict transformation colleague from Argentina.
In this conversation we talk about the power of living in the present moment, the importance of remembering deep history and enacting our visions for the future. We discuss a comparative history of colonialism, race and racism between Argentina and the United States.
We draw parallels between colonialism and gentrification and ponder how laws and bureaucracy are forms of cultural colonization that undermine indigenous culture and dialogue.
As conflict transformation practitioners we talk about the greatly needed capacity of dialogue to help us reach across our differences and facilitate healing. And, given where we started, we talk about how the transformation of conflict requires us to think beyond neutrality to avoid repeating patterns of oppression.
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