Toward a New Dharma of Peace Building: Cultivating Transformative Reconciliation and the Calling of Compassion, Confrontation, and a New Art of Integration

Dharma as right conduct and right ways of thinking and being is related to our thoughts and actions to overcome unrest and conflict in self and society in transformative ways and build peace. This peace building is not just avoidance of conflict but its transformation. It is also related to visions and practices of transformative reconciliation. Peace involves reconciliation but this reconciliation is not just accommodative but transformative as it tries to create links between peace and justice. This chapter discusses these visions and practices.