world today. This book is an exceptional combination of cutting edge scholarly research and innovative practical skills made accessible to professionals, academics, and the lay-person alike. In a world where violence, chaos, and change are on the rise, this book offers unprecedented vision, insight, and concrete tools for a new way. Part One, The Way In, gives a global snapshot of large-scale reconciliation processes worldwide. It synthesizes cutting edge research and practice of reconciliation and peace-building as well as offers a new framework for reconciliation. This book suggests that the heart of reconciliation involves a parallel process of personal and political transformation from systems of domination to relationships of mutuality. Four touchstones necessary to create conditions for genuine reconciliation are described in detail: drawing of the worldviews of the parties themselves; transcending the victim-offender cycle; engaging in large-scale social change; and assessing timing and tactics. Part Two, Worldviewing Skills, weaves metaphors, storytelling, legends and theory together to illustrate worldviewing skills and capacities needed to create conditions ripe for reconciliation. Three worldview skill sets are described in detail: skills for drawing on shared worldviews; tools to engage across worldview difference; and strategies to regenerate cultures and ultimately global worldview pluralism. Inspiring community-based initiatives are used throughout to illustrate these skills. Part Three, The Way Out, connects worldviewing skills to the rise and fall of civilizations, cultures and eras as well as lays out the personal work necessary for transforming relationships and creating conditions for the birth of a new era.

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