I watched The Six Habits of Empathy, an RSA video from 2012 featuring social historian Roman Krznaric, this week, and it struck me that many of the habits he talks about are also key to sustainable peacebuilding. In fact, several of the examples he gives are actually peacebuilding strategies.

He tells a story I had not heard before, although there was a 2019 documentary called The Best of Enemies. This is the story of C.P. Ellis, who went from Ku Klux Klan leader to civil rights activist after he was paired up with activist Ann Atwater to co-chair a committee on school desegregation in Durham, Northern Carolina in 1971.