Resource Library

The Centre for Good Relations’ (CfGR) Resource Library is a page dedicated to sharing media and text which may be of use or interest to those curious about conflict and mediation.

CfGR does not endorse or own the material shared in this space – unless explicitly stated in the CfGR section, but rather hosts a digital space for interest and shared learning.

Books and Articles

A sample of written media that looks at civic mediation, peacebuilding, and conflict are listed in this section. If an article or book is available digitally, they will be linked in the buttons labeled “read here.”

Theory and practice

McAllister, Brendan. Brooker, Esther. Rahim, Abdul. Cunningham, Louise. Tedcastle, Sam.

Civic mediation and social partnership. Practice Article, Mediation Theory and Practice Volume 2.2 2017. College of Mediators, Equinox Publishing.

Read here

Conflict Skills & Strategies

  • Fisher, Simon. Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Jawed Ludin, Rihcard Smith, Steve Williams and Sue Williams: Working with Conflict: Skills & Strategies for Action. Zed Books, 2000.
  • Kraybill, Ron. Wright, Evelyn: Cool Tools for Hot Topics: Group Tools to Facilitate Meetings When Things Are Hot (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding). Good Books; Original edition, January 1, 2007.
  • Rosenberg, Marshall B. Nonviolent Communication: Language of Life. 3rd ed., PuddleDancer Press, 2015.

Conflict Transformation

  • Lederach, John Paul. Moral Imagination: the art and soul of building peace. OUP 2005.
  • McAllister, Brendan: Restorative Justice and Peace in Northern Ireland. Restorative Justice Exchange, 2015.
Read here
  • McAllister, Brendan: HOPE: A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE, Presentation by Brendan McAllister at the Gathering in Glasgow on Conflict and Faith. Place for Hope, 2019.
Read here

Videos and Podcasts

Below are some videos and podcasts our practitioners, partners, or colleagues at other organisations have shared around mediation and or peacebuilding. You can find the media both directly linked to our page, or reach the original platform hosting the media through the buttons labeled “watch here” or “listen here”.

  • John Paul Lederach, a practitioner, researcher, and scholar of conflict resolution and peace building globally. His accessible podcasts, lectures, and books are available on his website, and are featured below.
Watch here
  • The Resolution Room Podcast | Episode 10 – Transformative Mediation: The Talk4Peace Project & Ireland’s Future Needs. This podcast looks the project Talk 4 Peace and their research at creative uses of mediation to support peacebuilding.
Watch here
  • Across the Red Line. This BBC Podcast, hosted by Anne McElvoy, offers spaces for people on opposite sides of a divisive topic to come together and discuss/ listen to each other.
Listen here

CfGR Resources

Centre for Good Relations has developed a number of resources for handling conflict. Below you will find materials which introduce methods for approaching difficult conversations, as well as publications on CfGR’s previous and current processes.

Tips and tricks

  • Centre for Good Relations developed a handout to help people handle difficult conversations. The flyer covers an introduction to conflict awareness and provides tools to approach and facilitate difficult conversations from the kitchen table to workplace disagreements.
Handling Difficult Conversations Guide

Publications on or about CfGR projects and processes

Peacebuilding Organisations

Organisations, charities, and programmes working in the peacebuilding or mediation sector which may be of interest are linked below.

Those included do not indicate partnership or endorsement by CfGR.