My friend Simon Fisher, who has died aged 77, was the founder in 1992 of Responding to Conflict, a pioneering initiative to train people from around the globe in conflict transformation – the idea of building constructive change out of the energy created by conflict.
Initially conceived in Bristol and then run from Woodbrooke College in Birmingham, the project attracted participants from across the world to study, work together and learn from each other’s experience of conflict and reconciliation, creating a network of people who were trained to work for non-violent change in the places in which they lived.
