On Thursday 27^th November people who had travelled from all parts of the United Kingdom gathered in the Desmond Tutu Room at St Martin in the Fields for the launch of the Foundation for Church Leadership’s book, Transforming Conflict, Conflict Transformation amongst senior church leaders with different theological stances.

Transforming Conflict is taken from the FCL’s commissioned project ‘Conflict Resolution’, funded by the Henry Smith Charity and delivered by Eolene Boyd-MacMillan and Sara Savage (with Jose Liht), PRRG, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.

After a welcome and introduction fromthe Foundation for Church Leadership, Dr Sara Savage gave a very informative talk about the project and how it was devised. Eolene Boyd-Macmillan then expanded on the delivery of the project, the three workshops the delegates attended and how, despite the guidance and coaching during the workshops, conflict resolution is a matter practise, practise, practise!

Questions from the floor asked Dr’s Savage and Boyd-MacMillan whether their findings and experience could be applied in other contexts. Their answers clearly encouraged everyone that Transforming Conflict was not limited to senior church leaders as many books were sold on the night and orders from the UK and overseas have been flooding in since.

Transforming Conflict is available from the Foundation for Church Leadership at the price of price £17.99 +£2pp, (ISBN: 978-0-955057335).

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Read the documents from the presentations-

FCL summary

Eolene Boyd Macmillan presentation

Sara Savage presentation