The Peace Professor.

LEDERACH, John-Paul; PEACE; WAR & society; NONVIOLENCE; PEASANTS; PARAMILITARY forces; SOCIAL conditions in Colombia, 1970-; CRIME victims

The article discusses John Paul Lederach, who is a college teacher at the Joan B. Krock Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Lederach does his research in Nepal and Colombia. The atrocities visited upon Colombian citizens is discussed as is an experimental community, La Pedregosa, where residents formed the Association of Peasant Workers of the Carare with the idea that they would remain neutral. Their approach is based on nonviolence and creating a dialog with the paramilitary groups in their region.