The future witness of the Church might just depend on how we engage conflict today.

The Center for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation is a division of Fuller Theological Seminary. We produce research, resources, and programming that equip Christian leaders to engage conflict with courage and wisdom—so division does not have the final word.

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Most leaders are trained to respond to conflict. Few are equipped to transform it.

In moments of division, urgency often replaces discernment. Communities react before they reflect, addressing visible symptoms while deeper wounds remain untouched. Without the space, relationships, and formation needed for long-term healing, conflict becomes harder to navigate. And easier to repeat.

We believe peacebuilding begins by learning to see differently: not only what is happening in moments of conflict and tension, but what lies beneath them, and what real transformation requires.

Peacebuilders Showcase
Campbell PhD, Caleb

Caleb Campbell, PhD
Pastor, Desert Springs Church & Director for the Surge Network and the J29 Coalition. Author of Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor

Kinoti PhD, M.D.

M.D. Kinoti, PhD
Professor of Nonprofit/NGO Management and Sustainable Development Practice, Regis University. Author of Making Peace with Fire

Lin, Barnabas

Barnabas Lin, PhD Candidate
Theologian in Residence at Bethel Community Presbyterian Church

  • Our Mission

    At the Center for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation at Fuller Seminary, we equip, connect, and inspire Christian leaders to live and lead as peacebuilders, faithfully engaging the conflicts that divide us, and cultivating communities of restoration, reconciliation, and love.

  • Our Conviction

    Our work is guided by the conviction that peacebuilding is both a theological mandate and a spiritual discipline. As such, we cultivate practices that form leaders inwardly and engage the world outwardly.

  • Our Impact

    Though housed in an academic seminary, we serve the Church and broader society through research, writing, public speaking, and training, and as a backbone institution that supports and serves Christian ministry leaders, peace practitioners, and thought leaders.

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CPCT ON SUBSTACK

Why Peacebuilding Fails Without Friendship

On life, loneliness, and the pursuit of sustainable peace

The Anatomy
of Peacebuilding

A three-phase journey that helps leaders discern not only the urgency of a crisis, but the kind of spiritual, psychological, relational, and practical care it requires—strengthening responses across the entire peacebuilding ecosystem.

Phase One: Triage

Time Frame: Intentionally short

Phase Two: Diagnosis & Treatment

Time Frame: Longer, more intensive

Phase Three: Prevention

Time Frame: Variable, based on level of commitment & resilience

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AREAS OF WORK

Discernment

We help leaders make sense of complex challenges by listening deeply and asking often overlooked questions. Our discernment process brings clarity to what is happening beneath the surface so that responses are rooted in wisdom rather than reaction.

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AREAS OF WORK

Formation

We attend to the inner formation of leaders as an essential foundation for peacebuilding. As such, we focus on who leaders are becoming, not just what they are doing. Formation cultivates the inner resilience and moral courage needed for sustained leadership.

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AREAS OF WORK

Connection

We bring leaders together in thoughtfully designed spaces for learning, dialogue, and shared reflection. Bringing together a diversity of leaders fosters relationships across difference and creates the conditions for trust, collaboration, and collective wisdom to emerge.

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FEATURED

CURRENT PROJECTS

Explore our latest projects and initiatives, including our Peace in Practice Research Project, (Re)union 2026, and our forthcoming Certificate in Peacebuilding. At CPCT, we are building the research, resources, and networks needed to prepare a new generation of global Christian peacebuilders.

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT

The 2025-2026
Peace in Practice Study

The Center for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation is conducting a study to understand how Christian leaders are navigating conflict and division in today’s polarized culture.

As part of this work, we are surveying pastors, nonprofit and marketplace leaders, and Christian educators to learn about the challenges they face, the needs they see, and the practices that can help them lead with wisdom and grace in these challenging times. The results of this study will directly shape the Center's programs, partnerships, and future research designed with and for leaders navigating conflict in their communities.

The results of this study will be shared publicly in a future report scheduled to be released in late spring 2026.

If you would like to lend your voice to the study through a 10-15 minute survey, click the button below.

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