TEACHING
peace
A Guide for the Classroom & Everyday Life
By. Leah C. WellsSponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
| October 2003
This book is dedicated to all thoseworking for learning with integrity, education with dignityand peaceful resolution of conflicts, and especially for
My students in French II
,whose lives greatly shaped mine.
Acknowledgements
Peace education is fundamentally not only about seeing the end result, but honoring the process as well. Inlooking at the final product, this curriculum, I am so appreciative of every person who walked with me throughthe steps of this project. Thank you all for being a part of the process.This curriculum project formally began in July 2001 through the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation through a grantfrom Ethel Wells who had faith in me to do this work. I am very grateful to Dr. David Krieger, Chris Pizzinat,and the entire staff, volunteers and interns at NAPF. Thank you especially to my buddy Kim Podzimek, and toReid, Mona, Senita and Shawn for all their humor and hard work - you all made this happen!I began to think about writing about teaching peace almost as soon as I began teaching peace in the fall of 1998.I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Colman McCarthy and the Center for Teaching Peace for fostering my interestin peace education. Thank you for your encouragement and for welcoming me into your classroom andsupporting me as I wrote this response to your reader, Solutions to Violence. Those texts had a profoundimpact on me.The process of writing this curriculum has not been a solitary effort. I am especially grateful to the Wellsfamily for their chapter title suggestions, to the Carsons for their hospitality and for having conversations aboutthings that really matter; to Jill for her honest critique; and to my students: the Class of 2001 at SBHS, to PaulBelgum and the Pacific High School group, and Joe Jauregui and my students at Renaissance. You folks makethis worthwhile.Very hearty thank-yous to my colleagues in teaching peace: Lea Endres who is a gifted healer and teacher,Danny Muller who has an endless supply of energy and wisdom, and Nathaniel who embodies the reasons whyit’s important to do this work. Thank you to the Chicago Gathering of 2003 for being a part of the refinement process in understanding peace education, especially Meg Gardinier of the Hague Appeal for Peace.Thank you also to Kathy Kelly and Voices in the Wilderness, Barbara Lubin and the Middle East Children’sAlliance, Michael Beer and Nonviolence International for their personal and organizational support. Thank youto two people who have modeled good teaching and who make me want to stay connected to classrooms: Mr.Charles Jackson and Jason Raley of University of California, Santa Barbara.To the United Farm Workers and supporters, thank you for teaching me about multicultural education and for bringing
la lucha
to the classroom. Many thanks to the networks of people in Ventura County working for peace and justice, especially SOY, AFA, CPR and CAUSE.Leah C. Wells20 October 2003
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