 Educating for Global Peace
spiritual & ethical perspectives on peace & justice
a peace
education center & biosophical institute sponsored
lecture series
june - december 2006
INTRODUCTION
This timely and provocative lecture series was inspired by an international
teaching/research collaboration coordinated by the Peace Education Center that
explored the religious and ethical precepts of peace and justice with the goal
of introducing these foundations into peace education. The project was intended
to foster interreligious understanding and knowledge of the secular ethics
that inform principles of peace, social justice and ecological responsibility.
This series was a continuation of that theme, and featured leading and original
thinkers, most of whom have spent a lifetime dedicated to the principles of
educating for peace. Through these speakers' voices we hoped to introduce to
our audience innovative, multi-disciplinary and multi-faith perspectives about
critical and timely peace related issues with special attention given to the
role peace education can play in addressing and transforming these concerns.
In the work of the Peace Education Center (TCPEC) we have observed that in
the present age of unprecedented, ubiquitous and seemingly unending violence,
many people throughout the world have lost trust in the institutions, leaders,
and policies that determine their lives. Some have joined together in alternative
political movements and some engage in violent resistance, such as that which
caused and is exploited by the war on terror. Yet the vast majorities are paralyzed
in the face of the global crisis of violence, lacking the critical skills,
knowledge and the capacities to bring forth alternatives to confront it and
engage in a democratic process of change. The TCPEC seeks to address these
concerns through conducting research toward the further development of the
field of peace education, providing outreach and networking, resourcing, training
and in-service education.
REPORTS
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ACTING FOR OTHERS:
SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE WORK OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES
ARTHUR ZAJONC
Professor of Physics, Amherst College; Director,
Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
 Acting
for Others (Powerpoint presentation)
ISLAMIC VALUES & TRANSFORMATIVE
NONVIOLENCE:
ARE THEY COMPATIBLE?
IBRAHIM MALIK ABDIL-MU'ID RAMEY
Coordinator of Peace and Disarmament Program,
Fellowship of Reconciliation; Board Member, Temple of Understanding and Muslim
Peace Fellowship
REPORT COMING SOON
ONE WORLD,
MANY RELIGIONS: GETTING BEYOND DIALOGUE...
JOYCE S. DUBENSKY
Executive Vice President, Tanenbaum
Center for Interreligious Understanding
 One World Many Religions
COSMOPOLITAN
ETHICS & BEING PEACE: EXPLORING THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPIRITUALITY, JUSTICE, & PEACE
DALE SNAUWAERT
Associate Professor of Educational Theory and
Social Foundations of Education; Chair of the Department of Foundations of
Education, University of Toledo
 Cosmopolitan
Ethics & Being Peace (M4A Audio File - LARGE FILE- requires Windows
Media Player or i-Tunes)
EDUCATING FOR PEACE AT THE
LEVEL OF OUR DEEP HUMANITY
PATRICIA MISCHE
Lloyd Professor of Peace Studies and World
Law, Antioch College; Visiting Professor, School of International Service,
American University; Co-founder and current President, Global Education
Associates
Educating
for Peace at the Level of our Deep Humanity
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