
WRITING
Selected Writing

Fambul Tok, Co-author. With a forward by Ishmael Beah; and essays by Libby Hoffman, Sara Terry, John Caulker, and Benedict Sannoh and with photographs by Sara Terry. Umbrage Editions, 2011.
Buy Now“Community Healing From the Inside Out: Systems lessons from Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone”, in Locally-Led Peacebuilding: Global Case Studies, edited by Stacey L. Connaughton and Jessica Berns. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019
Building Peace from the Inside Out: A Transformational Approach to Partnership traces the emergence-in-practice of inside-out peacebuilding as it has been embodied through more than a decade of partnership between Catalyst for Peace and Fambul Tok in Sierra Leone
“The Answer to Ebola: a Funder Makes the Case for Community-Driven Action” Building Peace: A Forum for Peace and Security in the 21st Century
Fambul Tok Educational Guide, Educator and Student versions, designed to accompany the Fambul Tok film; includes background material and history, lesson plans and activities
Path to Healing In War-Torn Sierra Leone in Peacebuilder, Eastern Mennonite University
Reconciliation in Sierra Leone: Local Processes Yield Global Lessons, in The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
Writing for a spiritual audience:
“Gift to the Giver” – The Christian Science Monitor Daily Religious Article, Sept. 14, 2009
“Untying the Settlements Knot” – Christian Science Sentinel, Aug. 24, 2009
“Resolved to Forgive” – Christian Science Sentinel, March 30, 2009
“Defusing Global Violence,” Christian Science Sentinel Radio program, Feb. 9, 2008
“What your prayers can do for peace,” Christian Science Sentinel Audio Chat – Jan. 8, 2008
“A Force for Peace” – Christian Science Sentinel, Jan. 29, 2007
“Live Church, Live Peace”– Christian Science Journal, Sept. 2006
“Giving, and Being Willing to Receive” – The Christian Science Monitor Daily Religious Article, July 31, 2006
“Impossible Not to Be Loved” – The Christian Science Monitor Daily Religious Article, Mar. 14, 2006
“A Glimpse of Heaven From Home” – The Christian Science Monitor Daily Religious Article, April 26, 2005
We are—all of us, always—invited to be heart-whole, as well as system-whole. And when we are, it completes the circuit from the inside, out, and back again.
LIBBY HOFFMAN
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