"This ground-breaking resource is for anyone, of any race or heritage, who stands ready to make progress toward equity and justice, by offering a creative vision and a practical blueprint for an inclusive, multicultural future for all those involved in conflict transformation, community mediation, and peace building"-- Provided by publisher.

Section 1: hindsight -- Introduction / Beth Roy -- Who produces knowledge? -- Aggregating wisdom, amplifying voices: conflict resolution practitioners of African descent / Cherise D. Hairston -- Who bridges cultural chasms? -- Rage is not an option: an indigenous woman's path to building resiliency and advocacy / Nadine Tafoya -- How do organizations welcome-or rebuff? -- Achieving belonging and connectedness: conflict resolution organizations reimagined / Cheryl Jamison -- How do institutions maintain dominance (despite their best intentions)? -- The method is the message: shifting the conflict transformation paradigm, sharing power / Roberto Cheén -- How is dissension seeded between diverse groups? -- Whiteness in academia: perspectives of a brown immigrant woman / Pushpa lyer -- Why are prestigious positions unequally shared? -- The state of rights and dreams: arbitrating evidence of racism / Benjamin Davis -- How do the tools we use foster inequality? -- The soft technology of control: how mediation practices perform racism / Beth Roy -- When do cultural borrowings (dis)honor the lenders? -- Cultural appropriation vs. cultural learning / Lucy Moore -- What do we see when we refuse to look away? -- Kareem was killed long before the trigger was pulled / Hasshan Batts and Jeani Garcia -- How do white people benefit from challenging racism? -- Letter from a white editor to her white readers / Beth Roy -- Section 2: insight -- We / Ruby Howard Braye -- Introduction / S. Y. Bowland -- One story: many experiences / S.Y. Bowland -- Vision of inclusive knowledge: the art of the credible messenger -- Embracing the good: taking a risk / Maria Volpe -- Writing a multicultural choir / Dwight L. Wilson -- Message to credible messengers / Hasshan Batts -- What rule do you need an exception to? / S.Y. Bowland -- Vision of expansive culture: the path of spirit in people and conflict -- Responsibilities of a white justice fighter / Jeff Hitchcock -- The jig is up! Movement / Johnnie Mitchell -- Vision for justice / Michelle Armster -- Vision of Power-Sharing Organizations: The Path of Responsible Handlers of Power -- Achieving Solidarity in Decolonization: Dialogue Among Friends of Color / tom kunesh, S.Y. Bowland, jiche, Jorge Morales, and Diego -- Navarro Women Like Me / Celeste Brock -- Bring Your Magnificence / S.Y. Bowland -- ancestors / Frank Eugene Hall -- Vision of welcoming institutions: the path of healing -- Dignity, respect, and healing in a diseased world / Diane Ciccone -- Verdict / Mary L. Jones Wade -- Vision of equitable practices: the path of mentorship and leadership -- In search of academic freedom: to censor word or deed: why do we ask the question? / Angie Beeman and Tsedale M. Melaku -- How are we in the world? / S.Y. Bowland -- Vision of seeing the invisible context of oppression: vision of freedom from violence -- The Mudang Sends the missionary home: practicing critical humility in intercultural peace and justice work / jiche -- Vision of action: path of vision of a world of humanity, cleansed of hate speech and violence -- An end to myths and hypocrisy: how hate speech protects white supremacist ideology and kills people of color / James Ciccone -- Section 3: foresight -- Introduction / Mary Adams Trujillo -- In the Beginning: Setting the Context -- Truth and (re)conciliation / Mark Charles -- Birthing a nation / Jonathan Webb -- Shifting paradigms -- Shifting paradigms / Beth Roy, Roberto Cheén, John Paul Lederach, S.Y. Bowland, and Mary Adams Trujillo -- One hundred years from now? You may not be there / Grande Lum -- Keepers of tears -- Writing as conflict resolution practice / Laurene Miller Patterson -- Performance as conflict resolution practice / Jada Gee -- ""We need to elder better"" -- Digging out after Atlanta / Tomi Nagai-Rothe -- Transformative pedagogies -- ""We teach to change the world"" / Barbara L. Jones and Mary Adams Trujillo -- Decentering power, centering stories: restorative justice pedagogies in action / Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom, Jamal Bakr, and Henry Cervantes -- Restorative justice: what is it really? -- Sticking to doing things the way we always have, even when we know it's not working / Tonya Covington -- Can restorative justice make young, black lives matter in schools? / Johonna R. McCants-Turner -- Hope and healing -- Politics of hope and healing: lessons from Chicago / Gerson Ramirez and Henry Cervantes -- Credible witnesses and testimonies -- Heart work / Rayshauna Gray -- Radical welcome / Hasshan Batts -- Walking by Faith -- Fierce love: friends, racial justice, and policing: a biblical economy of care / Cherice Bock -- Morning musing / Velda Love -- Conclusion.