Peacemaking: Practicing at the Intersection of Law and Human Conflict
Legal training teaches you how to win arguments. It rarely teaches you how to end conflict.
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Peacemaking lives where law meets real human emotion. It speaks to attorneys, mediators, and professionals who sit in the middle of other people’s crises and need a deeper toolbox than logic, procedure, and leverage.
This book makes a blunt point. Most conflict does not persist because people lack information. It persists because people feel threatened, disrespected, and unheard. Change that, and you change outcomes.
What You Will Take Away
- A practical mindset shift from adversarial thinking to resolution craft.
- Techniques for working with fear, anger, grief, and humiliation in legal and professional settings.
- Guidance for mediating disputes when “being right” blocks agreement.
- A grounded view of what actually creates durable settlement.
Who It Helps
- Lawyers who want better client outcomes with less collateral damage.
- Mediators who want more consistent breakthroughs.
- Leaders who negotiate inside complex human systems.
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Douglas E. Noll, JD, MA
In 2000, I left a successful career as a trial lawyer to become a peacemaker. My calling is to serve humanity, and I execute it at many levels. I am an award-winning author, teacher, and trainer and a highly experienced mediator. My work carries me from international work to helping people resolve deep interpersonal and ideological conflicts.
With Laurel Kaufer, I founded Prison of Peace in 2009. The Prison of Peace project has been the most profound peace training I have conducted thus far in my career. The project motivated me to expand the principles of Prison of Peace as much as possible so that every human wanting to learn the skills of peace may do so.
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