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CHAD FORD is an international conflict mediator, facilitator, and peace educator.

While most people know him for his work at ESPN, being a basketball analyst and writer was actually his side-gig for most of the last two decades. Chad’s peacebuilding work is what defines him.

After completing a Master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law School in 2000, Chad was poised to begin his career as a conflict mediator and facilitator.

Chad seved as the Director of the David O. McKay Center for Intercultural Understanding at BYU-Hawaii. for nearly twenty years where he created a major and certificate program in intercultural peacebuilding.

In 2024, Chad left his po CHAD FORD is an international conflict mediator, facilitator, and peace educator.

While most people know him for his work at ESPN, being a basketball analyst and writer was actually his side-gig for most of the last two decades. Chad’s peacebuilding work is what defines him.

After completing a Master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law School in 2000, Chad was poised to begin his career as a conflict mediator and facilitator.

Chad seved as the Director of the David O. McKay Center for Intercultural Understanding at BYU-Hawaii. for nearly twenty years where he created a major and certificate program in intercultural peacebuilding.

In 2024, Chad left his position at BYU-Hawaii to join the faculty at Utah State University. Chad is serving a joint appointment with the Religious Studies department and the Heravi Peace Institute. Chad teaches courses in Religion, Violence and Peace; Bridging Religious Differences; Introduction to Peacebuilding; and Transformative Mediation.

Chad’s work has frequently taken him out of the classroom and into conflict zones around the world. He’s made more than 50 trips to the Middle East and has worked on numerous other conflicts around the world in Ireland, Cyprus, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Oceania, China and throughout the United States, as both a mediator and a facilitator. Chad has served as a speaker and conflict facilitator for numerous organizations — working with governments, NGOs and corporations like Nike and the US Olympic team. He’s been able to combine his expertise on both sports and conflict by serving as an executive board member of the non-profit peacebuilding organization PeacePlayers.

His first book, Dangerous Love, weaves Chad’s experiences into a deeply personal step-by-step exploration of how we transform fear and conflict. Dangerous Love has been described as the "single best book about conflict and peace for a general readership.”

His second book, 70x7, draws on Chad’s experiences as a Christian peacebuilder. What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus when we feel stirred up with anger in our families, neighborhoods, wards, workplaces, online communities, and public forums? He shows how Jesus’s path of practicing 70×7 has the power to repair relationships by transforming destructive conflict into constructive peace.

Chad’s work with young people in the classroom, athletes on the basketball court, struggling families in the living room, executives in the boardroom, and divided communities in some of the most challenging conflicts in the world gives him a unique perspective and voice to the conflicts that plague our families, our organizations, and the world. ...more

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	Dangerous Love: Transforming Fear and Conflict at Home, at Work, and in the World 4.38 avg rating — 257 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seventy Times Seven: Jesus’s Path to Conflict Transformation 4.80 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Chad Ford and 4 other people liked Joe Reeve's review of Seventy Times Seven: Jesus’s Path to Conflict Transformation: ""Jesus came to teach us how to love in a broken world, not a fair one." I think once you understand this truth, everything else falls into place. A lot of what Jesus taught is simply unintuitive and goes against our natural instincts. Some of it even" Read more of this review »
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I had the pleasure of reading, giving feedback, and endorsing You and We ahead of its publication. You and We is revolutionary. It is the most significant book about human relationships written in the past two decades. At a time when the world is tea ...more
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Chad Ford liked Tessa's review of Seventy Times Seven: Jesus’s Path to Conflict Transformation: "Chad Ford's Seventy Times Seven is a remarkable study of how to make peace following Jesus' example. It's a practical handbook, personal, and easy to read, but it's not easy to implement. I've read it a couple of times now and find myself in situatio" Read more of this review »
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Chad Ford made a comment on Mychael-Ann’s review of Seventy Times Seven: Jesus’s Path to Conflict Transformation " Thanks for being the first person to review 70x7. So happy you enjoyed it. "
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Chad Ford liked Mychael-Ann's review of Seventy Times Seven: Jesus’s Path to Conflict Transformation: "Thought provoking, inspiring, and hopeful. Turned down dozens of corners and marked up several passages!"
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Chad Ford made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Wrong cover + add to author page topic " I didn't create or claim the profile that was created for 70x7, but I am the author. Is there a way to merge this book into my author profile? And yes, ...more "
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