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

21st 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!