What if the secret to peacemaking was as simple as being curious instead of judgmental?

Dr. Patrick Mason — professor of religious studies at Utah State University and a graduate of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies — brings deep expertise and refreshing honesty to what it really means to be a peacemaker, including what happened when hundreds of trained peacemakers completely fell apart on an email listserv.

In this conversation, Dr. Mason shares why peacemaking is fundamentally about relationships, the difference between conflict resolution and conflict transformation, why peacemakers are made and not born, and why the Ted Lasso principle of "be curious, not judgmental" is a peacemaking skill anyone can learn.

We cover conflict transformation, the character of a peacemaker, why we reduce people to positions, nonviolence, the civil rights movement and John Lewis, the meaning of shalom, and everyday peacemaking.

Learn more about Dr. Mason's book Proclaim Peace at https://mi.byu.edu/proclaim-peace-the-restorations-answer-to-an-age-of-conflict and find his Proclaim Peace podcast on YouTube. His faculty profile: usu.edu/experts/profile/patrick-mason.

All Peacemakers Needed spreads everyday peacemaking one conversation at a time. Learn more and become a peacemaker at allpeacemakersneeded.com.