Bringing It All Together Education should include the knowledge of what to do with it!
What can you do with this course? List three different actions you can take in the next year to improve the chances for a better peace, somewhere, somehow. How, if at all, do these relate to the way that Paul Joseph states that peace is coming to the U.S.?
Peace Studies and your life: A set of overlapping roles Vocational These perspectives and skills should relate to your employable future, but how? Yours is the era of 2-3 different jobs/careers So which one is your “contribution to peace” job (how can they all be)?
Special challenge in the military Obedience vs. conscience Special opportunities for peacebuilding and peacekeeping How to be professional military without falling victim to militarism?
Avocationally… Life as a parent – invaluable Life within your community – finding a niche that fits Life as a member of an extended family member and a community
In your community School board work Funding, supporting teacher training Funding, supporting materials & books that break stereotypes Use school-based conflict resolution approaches to be transformative for other areas of a community Running for the school board Funding a set of “peace” prizes or activities. Globalize & sensitize with the “foreign”
Volunteer work Again, the perspective is an asset, so too is the ability to bring skills Making “public” claims for the need for more peace In the criminal or juvenile justice system The social tension and violence dilemma – especially in teen communities Increasing the capacity of local institutions to create peace Take what the culture gives you
21 st Century Global Challenges How to relate the local with the global How to acquire a perspective and information on the peace that is needed in a given place and time Being “there” at the end of violent conflict – in the multiple ways that are open to us – a la your chart…. Figuring how to be preventive!
Go, then – in peace!