Introduction

The Teaching Peace Conference 2007 is an educational event aimed to bring together the peace-building community from all sectors of society for the following goals:

1.  To share and to learn with each other how we teach and make peace in our formal and informal environments

2.  To create new strategies for teaching and making peace at home, in school, in the workplace and in the world

3.  To encourage peace research, education and action amongst educators, community members and young people towards building a positive culture of peace in our world.


CLICK HERE OR GO TO 2008 LINK FOR HOW TO STEP-UP PEACE!!!


GOVERNOR JOHN LYNCH PROCLAIMS APRIL 15, 2005 "Teaching Peace Week!"

Read the Governor's Proclamation


CONGRESSMAN DENNIS KUCINICH ATTENDS THE APRIL 14, 2007 CONFERENCE


Two secondary teachers from Oyster River High School in Durham, New Hampshire, Kay Morgan and Melinda Salazar, who had been teaching peace education for decades in their K - 12 classrooms, were motivated by the by  the events of 9/11 to serve the broader community by opening a safe space wherein educators could revisit curriculum and instructional methods that promote peace education.  Drawing from a wealth of resources in the academic and activist communities, including innovative technologies in best practices that stimulate inspired dialogue, such as Open Space Technology and World Cafe, the Teaching Peace Conferences provide a forum to address complex global concerns, to emphasize the necessary conditions for building "positive peace," and to acknowledge the potential for gatherings to renew conviction and quicken collective action.

tpconf is organized by Melinda Salazar and Kay Morgan.  The conference is co-sponsored by the Race Unity/Diversity Club and is financially self-sustaining from conference registration fees and fundraising initiatives. Presenters have donated their time.  Donors include: The Bagelry, Breaking New Grounds, Brooks Drug Store, Oyster River PTO, Durham Marketplace, Durham Copy, Red Fish Blue Fish Dye Works, Green Mountain Coffee, Wentworth Greenhouse, ORHS Art Department, Yes! Magazine, Rethinking Schools, Bread and Puppet, World Education, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, and Randy Armstrong. We thank all those who have helped to make this conference possible. 

 

Read more about the Teaching Peace Conference in papers by Melinda and Kay in the Building Peace issue of THE CHANGE AGENT, Adult Education for Social Justice: News, Issues, and Ideas or go to the Building Peace issue at:

www.nelrc.org/changeagent/pdf/vol21/issue21.pdf

If there is to be peace in the world,

there must be peace in the nations.

If there is to be peace in the nations,

there must be peace in the cities.
 If there is to be peace in the cities,

there must be peace between neighbors.
 If there is to be peace between neighbors,

there must be peace in the home.
 If there is to be peace in the home,

there must be peace in the heart. -- Lao Tzu


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