In a time of increasing global threats--to the planet and its people--Creating Cultures of Peace offers an audacious and inspirational check-list of positive responses, a life-affirming appeal to "our better angels." If we are to survive, we need to imagine a world beyond war and, to this end, this book is both revolutionary and evolutionary. GAR SMITH, Berkeley, CA, author of The War and Environment Reader (2018)

Creating Cultures of Peace defies easy classification. A distillation of wisdom based on decades of experience--from peaceable US farm communities to war-ravaged villages in Indonesia--this book is part training manual, part personal journal, and part treatise on how integrity in our simplest daily choices lays the foundation for ever-bigger lives of power, impact and joy. PAMELA HAINES, Philadelphia, PA, author of Money & Soul; Quaker Faith and Practice and the Economy (2018)

Nadine is easily the most passionate Quaker I have ever met-when she speaks about the importance of conscientious objection right here and now; how we need to stand up and make our voices heard if we believe, as she does, that war is illegal, war is immoral and don't let anyone try and tell you any different-well, you can't help feeling stirred and emboldened. MICHAEL MEARS, London, UK, author of This Evil Thing (2016)

Nadine notes, "Yet the Acehnese and Javanese saw their own histories, cultures and experiences in these activities... (They) would say, "This is what our [family, tribe, or religion] teaches us... They just never expected us to actually DO it!" That was an epiphany for me, do I really follow-up on good ideas? Throughout this book Nadine calls us "to actually DO it!" Her own personal stories show us how reflecting on our lives, brings insights, not just to us but to others. CECILIA YOCUM, PhD, Tampa, FL, author of Help for Moral Injury: Strategies and Interventions (2016)

Creating Cultures of Peace engages us with insightful and compassionate analysis, stories, activities and practices to overcome the rigidity of reactive and isolating habits; engage our consciences with increased awareness, presence and empathy; expand our vocabulary of emotions and abilities to release them; and invite the regenerative power of play. The human heart hungers for this transformation to love. Let us feast LAURIE CHILDERS, former National Council Chair, Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA, artist and peace activist, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

This book unpacks the tools for practicing peace in crystal form. Theory and practice effectively interweave through stories of the years of community work. I am pleased to have a book that virtually instructs and grounds me through these stories. I have followed the instructions and see it work! Indeed, peace building takes constancy in practice. I have seen this in my life and in many of the scenes in the book, as I accompanied Nadine on several of her visits in Indonesia. ALMA APARECE, human rights and environmental attorney and Dean of Planning, Bohol University, Tagbilaran City, Philippines

I began this training in Indonesia in 2005. It reconnected us to our ability to take right actions in our lives based on our conscience and reconnected our souls to our sense of value and capacity. This training emboldened my family and friends to start a peace movement in Pati. Thank you, Nadine for your dedicated efforts for peaceful society on the earth and willingness to document the work for us to use. PETRUS, social activist and founder of Peace Place school and training center, Pati, Central Java, Indonesia