Peace Education Center Staff

The small, dynamic staff of the TCPEC generates and manages the Center’s numerous events, international projects and educational programming. The abundance of resourceful and creative activity is carried out with the support of a large cadre of volunteers and graduate assistants. Advanced students are offered special opportunities through organizing and facilitation roles, conference participation, and teaching and research assistantships. TCPEC’s reputation is further enhanced by each staff member’s individual contributions to the field of peace education through teaching, presenting, research and publishing.

Tony Jenkins, Co-Director (Director of Research and Administration), is the Global Coordinator of the International Institutes on Peace Education (IIPE); and Coordinator of the Global Campaign for Peace Education.   He is also the convener of the Community-Based Institutes on Peace Education (CIPE).  He has extensive international consultative experience, including work with ministries of education, universities, NGOs and UN agencies.   His current work focuses on pedagogical research and educational design and development with special interest in alternative security systems, disarmament and gender.   Among his recent publications are “Disarming the System, Disarming the Mind” in Peace Review (2006) and co-authored with Betty Reardon “Gender and Peace: Towards an Gender Inclusive, Holistic Perspective” in the Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies edited by Johan Galtung and Charles Webel. 

Janet Gerson, Co-Director (Director of Training), is an educator and trainer with extensive experience in peace education and conflict resolution. Ms. Gerson also oversees research and development of substantive themes and trainings in peace education.  Her teaching, consulting, and publications concern the interrelatedness of conflict studies, reconciliation, nonviolent strategies, and peace education. As an organizer and educator she has worked in Japan, South Korea, India, Turkey, Lebanon and Colombia and is a consultant for the new Masters Degree in Peace Education, UN University of Peace, Costa Rica.  She contributed to Learning to Abolish War: Teaching Toward a Culture of Peace (Reardon & Cabezudo, 2002) and The Handbook of Conflict Resolution (M. Deutsch & P. Coleman, 2000.)  She founded Dance Stream, a dance company and vehicle for community building through the arts, and is an advisor to the Theatre of the Oppressed Laboratory, New York City.

Betty A. Reardon, Consultant to the TCPEC and Founding Director Emeritus. Betty Reardon is recognized world wide as a leading theorist, and designer of pedagogic materials and processes in peace education. She was the recipient of the special Honourable Mention Award in Paris by UNESCO at the Peace Education Prize Ceremonies in 2001. She was the initiator and the first Academic Coordinator of the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign for Peace Education. Having taught as visiting professor at a wide range of universities in he U.S. and abroad, she has 40 years of experience in the international peace education movement and 25 years in the international movement for the human rights of women. She has served as a consultant to several UN agencies and education organizations and has published widely in the field of peace and human rights education, and women’s issues.

Michele Milner, Peace Education Certificate Program Coordinator, Teachers College Tokyo. Michele completed an MA in Communication Studies from the University of Windsor and an MA in TESOL from Teachers College.  She recently taught at International Christian University, Tokyo and teaches Global Issues and Language Teaching at Dankook University in Seoul. She is doing her doctoral studies on peace in the media at Lancaster University, UK.

Center Associates and Friends

Recent former Center Associates and friends deserving of special recognition for their substantial contributions to the TCPEC from 2003 to the present, include:
Doris Brosnan, Kathryn Crawford, Emma Groetzinger, Brooke Harris, Patrice Haydel, Tiffany Hunter, Yohei Ishiguro, Tavis Jules, Karen Kaun, Kristina Lawyer, Christine Pagen, Dustin Ross, Jill Strauss, Andria Wisler, Q'Jette Whitworth, Robyn Wood, Dorene Yamaguchi and Lei Yu.