Fresno, CA (PRWEB) October 31, 2011

Douglas E. Noll Professional Mediator and co-founder of Prison of Peace, a non profit organization dedicated to teaching peacemaking and mediating skills for incarcerated women, discovered insights from working with inmates that helped shape his new groundbreaking book, Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts (Prometheus Spring 2011).


“We started the Prison of Peace nonprofit project a few months after I had acquired a publishing contract for Elusive Peace. A female inmate in Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California reached out to us through a handwritten letter for help in reducing the conflict and violence within the prison. While working with these women, I saw many similarities to war and violence. My thought was that if we could be successful teaching these women with dark pasts, many of them serving time for murder and manslaughter, to be peacemakers, it would be a strong testament to the idea that peacemaking in other equally difficult and challenging parts of the world would be possible. Through working with these women I was energized with hope that world conflicts could be mediated, and peace can be achieved. The book, Elusive Peace offers strategies for accomplishing peace in areas of conflict around the world, as well as mediating peace at home,” Noll explained.

Prison of Peace is a pro bono project created by professional mediators Laurel Kaufer, Esq. and Douglas E. Noll, Esq. at the request of life and long-term inmates at Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, Ca, and has received attention from Senator Carol Liu, Chair of the California Senate Select Committee on Women and Children in the Criminal Justice System who said, “Prison of Peace in transforming inmates into trainers themselves, provides a low-cost sustainable rehabilitative program that is necessary in all California prisons. I look forward to seeing this program continue to grow and impact the lives of incarcerated women throughout California.”
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The XII Project is a nonpartisan initiative designed to create a dialogue among thought-leaders about key foreign policy and national security challenges facing the United States in the run up to the 2012 Presidential elections. The XII Project’s policy team aims to provide a substantive conversation on public policy issues that will have a real impact on America’s future at home and abroad.


Eric Ham is the founder of the XII Project. He previously served as the Policy Director for the 3D Security Initiative, an academic project of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding based in Washington, DC. During his tenure at 3D he led the centers’ Washington office. He oversaw the legislative portfolio and strategically connected the center with key policymakers on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue
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Doug addresses the Iranian assassination attempt, and politician responding to take action suggesting military force is the answer instead of non violent or peaceful strategies in his latest blog
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"AS the world continues to globalize, we will have to learn how to balance compassion for those parts of the world that are catching up with the need for global order and peace. This will require much deeper and broader skills from internl mediators and negotiators," Elusive Peace by Douglas E Noll. http://ping.fm/y4Gvy

Doug Noll's analysis of where Republican Presidential candidates stand on peace is published in Truth Out magazine.
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Doug Noll, author of Elusive Peace posted this article in Huffington Post about "Occupy Wall Street" Informative, educational.
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Douglas E Noll, peacemaker and author of Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts weighs in on "Occupy Wall Street" http://ping.fm/pseKX

Most of us want Peace on Earth, and most of us avoid the unpleasantries of war. In order to understand how to have peace, we need to know what it takes to get it, what has failed us and why. For instructions on peace (even politicians can understand), read Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts. http://ping.fm/bSaYC

Many people have been asking me about the "Occupy Wall Street" movement. Throughout history groups have risen in protest. As I follow this, I will be commenting and analyzing the reasons, purpose, and motivations about why "now". This protest is interesting as it involves young people, older adults, and many with different agenda's. I discuss civil unrest in depth in my book Elusive Peace. http://ping.fm/7BgdW

Read Doug Noll's latest blog on how to navigate peace in Afghanistan.
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"If we can prepare our leaders, diplomats, and international mediators to step up with the best tools, peace will not be so elusive." From Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts by Douglas E. Noll http://ping.fm/ERI4P