God and Conflict: A Search for Peace in a Time of Crisis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615625904)

Philip M. Hellmich is Director of Peace at The Shift Network, an International organization mobilizing educational tools and cultivating alliances worldwide. He is Managing Director of TSN's "Summer of Peace", a monumental series of events throughout 2012 that bring together some of the world's foremost Peacebuilders and Social Architects while serving to illuminate the urgency of our times in taking both personal and planetary actions towards peace. Philip has more than 25 years of experience in peacebuilding and conflict transformation, including 14 years with Search for Common Ground. He also served for four years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone where he lived and worked in small remote bush villages. A published writer, Philip is author of a forthcoming book God and Conflict: A Search for Peace in a Time of Crisis with a Foreword by Lama Surya Das. He serves as adviser to The Global Peace Initiative of Women. Philip's framing passion coincides with the above question: How is inner peace a global responsibility, and vice versa? A long-time meditation practitioner, Philip enjoys studying and teaching about the parallels between inner and outer peacebuilding. Please visit Philip on the web: www.godandconflict.com