Maxwell Institute Podcast #141: Loving Dangerously, with Chad Ford
Maxwell Institute Podcast
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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Knowing how to transform conflict is critical in both our personal and professional lives. Yet, by and large, we are terrible at it. The reason, says longtime mediator Chad Ford, is fear. When conflict comes, our instincts are to run or fight.
To transform conflict, Ford says we need to turn toward the people we are in conflict with, put down our physical and emotional weapons, and really love them with the kind of love that leads us to treat others as fellow human beings, not as objects in our way. We have to open ourselves up with no guarantee that anyone on the other side will do the same. While this can feel even more dangerous than conflict itself, it allows us to see the humanity of others so clearly that their needs and desires matter to us as much as our own.
Ford shows dangerous love in action through examples ranging from his work in the Middle East to a deeply moving story about reconciling with his father. He explains why we disconnect from people at the very time we need to be most connected and the predictable patterns of justification and escalation that ensue. Most importantly, he gives us a path to practice dangerous love in the conflicts that matter most to us.
In today’s episode of the Maxwell Institute podcast, we explore the meaning of dangerous love, how it works on a theological and a practical level, and how we can be Latter-day Saint peacebuilders in the world. As always, please follow us on social media at @byumaxwell on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, and sign up for our newsletter at https://mi.byu.edu/monthly-mi-news/. Without any further ado, here’s Professor Chad Ford.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Institute podcast. I'm Joseph Stewart. Knowing how to transform conflict is |
| 0:06.5 | critical in both our professional and personal lives. Yet, by and large, we are terrible at it. |
| 0:12.1 | The reason, says longtime mediator Chad Ford, is fear. When conflict comes, our instincts are to run or |
| 0:19.2 | fight. The transform conflict, Professor Ford says, we need to turn toward the people we are in conflict with, put down our physical and emotional weapons, and really love them with the kind of love that leads us to treat others as fellow human beings, not as objects in our way. |
| 0:33.6 | Ford chose this love that he calls dangerous love in action through examples ranging |
| 0:39.2 | from his work in the Middle East to a deeply moving story about reconciling with his father. |
| 0:43.2 | He explains why we disconnect from people at the very time we need to be most connected |
| 0:47.1 | and the predictable patterns of justification and escalation that ensue. Most importantly, |
| 0:52.0 | he gives us a path to practice dangerous love in the conflicts that |
| 0:55.5 | matter most to us. In today's episode of the Maxwell Institute podcast, we explore the meaning of |
| 1:00.6 | dangerous love, how it works on a theological and a practical level, and how we can be Latter-day |
| 1:05.2 | Saint peace builders in the world. As always, please follow the Maxwell Institute on social media |
| 1:10.3 | at at BYU Maxwell on YouTube, |
| 1:13.0 | Instagram, and Facebook, and sign up for our newsletter at m.byu.edu slash monthly dash MI dash news. |
| 1:22.0 | Without any further ado, here's Professor Chad Ford speaking on his book, Dangerous Love. |
| 1:30.8 | Chad Ford speaking on his book, Dangerous Love. Chad Ford, welcome to the Maxwell and Stu podcast. So stoked to be here and live in studio. |
| 1:36.9 | What a treat for us to have you all the way from Laie. Professor Ford, you work at the David |
| 1:42.0 | O'May-K Center for Intercultural Understanding at BYU, |
| 1:45.5 | what do you do there? |
| 1:46.6 | It's really a peace-building conflict resolution center that is based off of David O'Meke's |
| 1:52.5 | original founding prophecy at BYU, Hawaii. |
| 1:56.4 | So when David O'Maqay was a young apostle in 1921, he took a trip around the world post-World |
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