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University of Notre Dame professor John Paul Lederach is widely known for his pioneering work in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. (Jim Z. Rider/Special to the Christian Science Monitor)

A professor and writer finds ways for peacebuilding

Conflict negotiator and writer John Paul Lederach has spent decades seeking new paths to peacebuilding.

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Santosh Thorat holds his child in a Mumbai slum. He was hired by police to keep protesters away from demolition bulldozers – then discovered to his horror that his own neighborhood was to be torn down next. Today he advocates using demolition funds to improve the lot of slum dwellers.

After seeing Mumbai's slums bulldozed, he now works to save and restore them

Police once bulldozed thousands of slum homes in Mumbai, a metropolitan region of about 16 million people in India. Santosh Thorat sees a better way: Help residents fix them up.

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