Peacebuilding Ecology and Personal Transformation in Colombia

This Masters dissertation examines bottom-up peacebuilding in Colombia from the perspective that ecological principles apply to human society.

University of Sydney, 2023

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Peace Profile: Dunna

I wrote this after completeing a Graduate Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies. It’s a profile of an organisation in Colombia called Dunna, run by my brilliant peacebuilding/yoga colleagues.

In Colombia, a land that knows too well the price of war, a bold compassionate peace building goal is becoming a reality…

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From War to Peace

Published in Australian Yoga Life, 2009.

The Tasmanian’s War Veterans’ yoga group met weekly from 1992 - 2023. In this article I tell the story of how yoga transformed lives that were shattered by war.