6. Tools to Build Peace Academies
Group 6. Tools to Build Peace Academies: Youth Alliance for Global Peace
Moderated by: Rita Marie and Oliver Rizzi Carlson
Team Members:
- Liza Morales: lizamorales@yahoo.com
- Donna Kuelz: donna@cgpp.org
- Kimberly Clark: clarkkp@hotmailmail.com
- Danielle Wyman: danielle.wyman@gmail.com
- Anne-Marie Collette: amcollette@peace-education.ca
- Glen Burns: glenwoodburns@yahoo.com
- Kati Winnegrad: Milagros@racsa.co.cr
| Identify partners and stakeholders (eg. BePeace, Children’s Global Peace Project, United Nations) | Liza, Kati, Anne-Marie | Global Alliance /Academy | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create a youth Summit to do appreciateive inquiry (4-D) on peace curriculum and community integration | Liza, Kati, Donna, Danielle, Anne-Marie | 2011 | |
| Outreach to recruit youth for participation in summit and summit planning | Danielle, Anne-Marie | CGPP can connect to classes | 2010 |
| Identify team members to support youth leadership | 2010 | ||
| Resource support for [articipation (sponsors for funding] | Kimberly, Kati | 2010 |
Overriding Objective
- Note importance of cultural awareness and adapting language and presentation to honor culture
Curriculum
- Developing specific peace education courses
- Peace with the environment
- Include case studies different parts of the world
- Bring a peace program into every class, every school
- Include reconnecting with nature and gardening workshops to increase/enhance children’s understanding & appreciation of the earth’s ability to nurture us
- Develop children’s books for peace that have themes of peace and put together bibliographies of existing books
- A repository of songs and cooperative games and stories
- Design tools to assist children to discover who they are and where they are going (purpose)
- Children as environmental stewards
- Develop the “servant leadership” attitude, skills—service learning
- Summer peace camp
- Design prototypes for peace education in all age groups from pre-school through high school
- Peace program for kids on their hand held video games
- Education with schools of new spirituality curriculum by Neal Donald Walsh
- Introduce BePeace and work with faculty at Waldorf schools and other private schools
- UN work for the decade of a culture of peace and non-violence
- Research UN resources
- Certification of programs and curriculums (vs. warehousing)
- Education empowerment
Junior Alliance/Youth Alliance
- Create Junior peace alliance for children
- Find ways for children to provide leadership
- Children develop the program for themselves for younger kids and adults
- Children’s global alliance that happens concurrently with representatives from all countries
- Nurture children as peaeemakers
- Honor children for the light they are
- Developing a stronger connection of children to the importance of creativity
- Peace cadets
- Cross cultural pen pals
- Focus on common issues, lessons learned and exchange experiences
- Peace buddy program
- Spirituality involvement in peace
- Cross cultural understanding of differences
Community
- Support ways for communities to support children—Community dialogue
- Couples eminars for all couoples that have their first child
- Programs like parents as teachers could include BePeace traiing for parents
- Support groups for mothers and fathers
- Community training/family training
- Support ways for children to support communities
- Mentor programs for children and families
