{"product_id":"the-little-book-of-transformative-community-conferencing-a-hopeful-practical-approach-to-dialogue-9781680991666","title":"The Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing: A Hopeful, Practical Approach to Dialogue","description":"\u003cb\u003eWill prove valuable and timely to mediators, restorative justice practitioners, community organizers, as well as leaders of peacebuilding and change efforts.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen conflicts become ingrained in communities, people lose hope. Dialogue is necessary but never sufficient, and often actions prove inadequate to produce substantial change. Even worse, chosen actions create more conflict because people have different lived experiences, priorities, and approaches to transformation. So what's the story? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing\u003c\/i\u003e, David Anderson Hooker offers a hopeful, accessible approach to dialogue that: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntegrates several practice approaches including restorative justice, peacebuilding, and arts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreates welcoming, non-divisive spaces for dialogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNames and maps complex conflicts, such as racial tensions, religious divisions, environmental issues, and community development as it narrates simple stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilds relationships and foundations for trust needed to support long-term community transformation projects\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd results in the crafting of hopeful, future-oriented visions of community that can transform relationships, resource allocation, and structures in service of communities' preferred narratives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHooker presents an important, stand-alone process, an excellent addition to the study and practice of strategic peacebuilding, restorative justice, conflict transformation, trauma healing, and community organizing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book recognizes the complexity of conflict, choosing long-term solutions over inadequate quick fixes. The Transformative Community Conferencing model emerges from the author's thirty years of practice in contexts as diverse as South Sudan; Mississippi; Greensboro, North Carolina; Oakland, California; and Nassau, Bahamas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Anderson Hooker, PhD\u003c\/b\u003e, JD, MDiv, is an independent practitioner and scholar with more than 30 years' experience in conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and community organizing. Hooker has worked in family, organizational, community, and national contexts throughout Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the US. He is co-author (with Amy Potter-Czjaikowski) of \u003ci\u003eTransforming Historical Harms\u003c\/i\u003e (Eastern Mennonite University, 2012).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Good Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525099753746,"sku":"9781680991666","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e6ff8341-14f6-422f-8b92-16a3c0e0ce2e.jpg?v=1731202213","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-little-book-of-transformative-community-conferencing-a-hopeful-practical-approach-to-dialogue-9781680991666","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}