Padraig O’Malley has been a mediator of reconciliation in some of the world’s most contentious conflict zones—he spent the 1970s and ’80s in Northern Ireland, the 1990s in South Africa, and the years since focused on the Middle East and the Balkans. Paradoxically a pacifist in war-torn countries, a straight-shooting diplomat, and a pub owner and addict, O’Malley developed a guiding principle for bringing peace to societies in conflict. His groundbreaking premise is based on experience and empathy; he asks that divided cultures undergoing a peace process also assist with reconciliation efforts in other regions. In The Peacemaker, director James Demo chronicles five years of O’Malley’s daunting and perilous odyssey, watching as the steadfast and complex visionary applies his ambitious efforts to those in need of freedom from turmoil and conflict, including O’Malley himself.  TM