Rondine Method

Franco Vaccari is the founder and president of Rondine, Cittadella Della Pace, and is a practicing psychotherapist. Miguel H. Díaz is the John Courtney Murray, S.J., University Chair in 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.

• AcknowledgementsForeword. 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 TrustChapter 2. The Other Person in the RelationshipChapter 3. The Heart of the Rondine Method: The Relational Approach to ConflictChapter 4. Putting the Relational Model to the TestChapter 5. Some Final Thoughts and Next StepsPart 2. Responses to the Rondine MethodChapter 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)BibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

This timely book is a must read for practitioners of peacebuilding who wish to understand how sustained intercommunal living, dialogue, and deep reflection can be creatively organized and successfully sustained. Contributors offer moving and theoretically grounded insights about the way that fear, mistrust, and trauma are implicated in conflict and how carefully facilitated encounters with ‘the other’ can serve as a foundation for conflict transformation.