WHAT IS A PEACE SCHOOL?A Peace School is
WHAT DO PEOPLE DO IN PEACE SCHOOL?
Students begin in classrooms for lessons and all kinds of activities. Later they go outdoors to play cooperative games, where everybody wins. After a cold drink of water, the whole school sings, because music is fun and teaches a lot. Students spend the last few minutes back in their classrooms, reflecting and planning ahead. Peace School is a time to appreciate individuals and their skills, talents and feelings; to meet peacemakers from the community; to learn to listen to others, to learn skills of conflict management and help solve problems. It is a time to learn of other countries and all kinds of people. It is a time when people of all ages can teach each other, talk to each other and take care of each other. Peace School is a place to find out that peacemakers do things like share ideas with each other, take steps toward building social justice and write letters to public officials. Peace School is a place to learn, to plan for the future, to send our hopes into the world, to find out that peacemaking is fun, and to dream. WHY CALL IT PEACE SCHOOL?
The name "Peace School" tells participants that peace is important. It is important to those who teach it and to those who learn it. The name emphasizes that
The name helps develop a concept of peacemaking as an activity, a way of life, a continuing and daily way of relating to others. The name builds the process of reclaiming and working for peace. |