Offering resources designed to increase personal and social resilience and peace regarding sexual and gender diversity.
A Multi-Partisan Guide to Sexual and Gender Diversity
The LGBTQIA+ Peacebuilding Project includes two comprehensive guidebooks published by Rowman & Littlefield and 12 insightful booklets, each self-published by the coauthors of their respective chapters. These resources are thoughtfully crafted to foster personal and social resilience while promoting peace and understanding regarding sexual and gender diversity.
Uniting Diverse Voices
We brought together over 100 scholars, clinicians, and community leaders with diverse and sometimes politically opposing viewpoints. Our collective effort aimed to find common ground, reduce prejudice, and enhance LGBTQIA+ health and self-development for a broad audience. We offer research-based insights, skills, and support for building a more inclusive and empathetic world.
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Empowering Responses to Stress for Sexual/Gender Minorities
Finding Common Ground of Diverse Viewpoints
Instead of reinforcing one side over another and perpetuating biases, our book project leverages various viewpoints to reduce prejudice and find common ground. We aim to present ideas and skills that are comprehensive, inclusive, and free of misinformation and invalidation. Our goal is to provide a balanced perspective that respects all voices involved.
Co-Creating Safety and Collaboration
Addressing personal, family, and community conflicts around sexual and gender diversity requires a commitment to co-creating safety, collaborating, and integrating our collective knowledge. We believe in developing win-win strategies and solutions that reflect our interconnectedness and shared experiences.
Symbolizing Connection and Complexity
Inspired by Venn Diagrams and Nature, our logo symbolizes the overlapping and distinct aspects of ourselves, our relationships, and our communities. It reflects our interconnectedness, how we are both similar and different, complex and belonging. This representation underscores our commitment to understanding our diverse identities and collaborating for wellbeing.
Bridging Divides
This book project serves as a social experiment to bridge gaps and address the historical and ongoing polarization, misunderstandings, and harm related to sexual and gender diversity. We aim to empower readers by fostering identity and skill development while minimizing the tendency to take sides, which often hinders progress.
Growth and Understanding
We hope that our guidebooks and booklets will enable you and others to recognize and value your worth and that of those around you.
In these politically divided times, we aspire for our resources to inspire similar initiatives of respectful "adversarial collaboration" to understand and resolve conflicts and contribute to positive change and sustainable peace.
For further insights on sexual/gender diversity and to connect, don’t hesitate to contact us.
