This book lays out the Rondine method of peacebuilding training as it has been used for more than 20 years to foster interpersonal, interreligious, and intercultural relations, and explores the reception of this psycho-social peacebuilding methodology by a series of scholars and practitioners.

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

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 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.