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EBSCO Publishing : eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - printed on 10/1/2020 12:39 PM via MCGILL UNIV AN: 607697 ; Ian Harris.; Peace Education From the Grassroots Copyright 2013. Information Age Publishing. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except fair uses permitted under U.S. or applicable copyright law. Account: s1226075 Peace Education from the Grassroots A volume in Peace Education Ian Harris, Edward J. Brantmeier, and Jing Lin, Series Editors EBSCOhost - printed on 10/1/2020 12:39 PM via MCGILL UNIV. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use Peace Education Ian Harris, Edward J. Brantmeier, and Jing Lin, Series Editors More Than a Curriculum: Education for Peace and Development (2013) By Johan Galtung and S. P. Udayakumar Building a Peaceful Society: Creative Integration of Peace Education (2011) By Laura Finley Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future (2011) By Susan Gelber Cannon Books, Not Bombs: Teaching Peace Since the Dawn of the Republic (2010) By Charles Howlett, and Ian Harris Spirituality, Religion, and Peace Education (2010) Edited by Edward J. Brantmeier, Jing Lin, and John P. Miller Encyclopedia of Peace Education (2008) Edited by Monisha Bajaj For the People: A Documentary History of the Struggle for Peace and Justice in the United States (2008) By Charles Howlett and Robbie Lieberman Peace Education: Exploring Ethical and Philosophical Foundations (2008) By James Page Transforming Education for Peace (2008) Edited by Jing Lin, Edward J. Brantmeier, and Christa Bruhn Educating Toward a Culture of Peace (2006) By Yaacov Iram EBSCOhost - printed on 10/1/2020 12:39 PM via MCGILL UNIV. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use Peace Education from the Grassroots edited by Ian M. Harris University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee INFORMATION AGE PUBLISHING, INC. Charlotte, NC • www.infoagepub.com EBSCOhost - printed on 10/1/2020 12:39 PM via MCGILL UNIV. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov ISBN: 978-1-62396-349-1 (Paperback) 978-1-62396-350-7 (Hardcover) 978-1-62396-351-4 (ebook) Copyright © 2013 Information Age Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America EBSCOhost - printed on 10/1/2020 12:39 PM via MCGILL UNIV. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use I would like to dedicate this book to my wife, Sara Spence, who has supported me throughout my thirty years as a peace educator. She has inspired me throughout my journey. EBSCOhost - printed on 10/1/2020 12:39 PM via MCGILL UNIV. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use EBSCOhost - printed on 10/1/2020 12:39 PM via MCGILL UNIV. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use CONTENTS Preface ...................................................................................................ix 1 Jamaica’s Path to Peace and Love in Society ....................................... 1 Meagan Call-Cummings and Janilee Abrikian 2 Peace Education in Teacher Professional Development in Saltillo, Mexico ................................................................................ 21 Sandra Lourdes Candel and Stephanie Knox Cubbon 3 Peace Education in the Grassroots in the Philippines ..................... 37 Virginia Floresca-Cawagas, Loreta Navarro-Castro, Ofelia Durante, and S. H. Toh 4 Empowering the Children of Ex-Combatants through Soccer and Peace Education in an After-School Program in El Salvador ....................................................................................... 65 Kathryn S. Crawford and Jose Roberto Gil 5 Peace Education in Flanders, Belgium: Grassroots Organizations at Work in Schools ...................................................... 79 Geert Castryck, Nils Duquet, and Maarten Van Alstein 6 Teaching Forgiveness in Uganda: On the Road to Reconciliation ............................................................................... 101 Brandon Fryman 7 From the Bottom Up: Educating for Peace and Justice in America’s Nuclear Age .................................................................. 123 Ian Harris and Charles F. Howlett vii EBSCOhost - printed on 10/1/2020 12:39 PM via MCGILL UNIV. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use viii Contents 8 How Peace Education Has Tried to Overcome the Division of Korea into Two Nations: Practicing Peace-Reunification Education in Schools ......................................................................... 151 Soon-Won Kang 9 Building Peaceful Schools in Canada, One School at a Time: Peaceful Schools International ........................................................ 173 Robin Neustaeter 10 Peace Education in Spain: Present and Future ............................... 197 Antonio Poleo Otero, Ian Harris (translator) 11 Peace Education from the Grassroots in Northeast India ............. 213 Leban Serto 12 A Case Study of Holocaust Education in Germany ........................ 233 Miriam Shenkar and Zahava Szász-Stessel 13 The International Red Cross Educates the World about International Humanitarian Law ..................................................... 253 Cris Toffolo 14 Peace Education in “Life is Treasure” House in Japan ................... 283 Kazuyo Yamane A Bibliography For Peace Education................................................ 301 About the Contributors ......................................................................317 EBSCOhost - printed on 10/1/2020 12:39 PM via MCGILL UNIV. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use PREFACE BACKGROUND This collection of essays had an unusual beginning. Early in December 2008 my wife Sara and I were in Cordoba, Spain. I had just completed teaching a peace education course at Jaume Primero University in Castellon in a wonderful graduate program in Peace, Conflict, and Development. Sara and I were traveling around Moorish Spain enjoying the sights. Cordoba was one of our favorite spots. As was my custom I went one day to a local coffee house to read my e-mail. To my surprise I had an enquiry from an Antonio Poleo from Malaga, Spain about where he could buy books on peace education in New York City. He was planning to go there with his fam- ily after Christmas. Because I had been a student at New York University in 1961 and used to hang out in Greenwich village, I was able to give him a few suggestions. In my reply I told him that my wife and I were going to Malaga the next day and asked him if he would like to get together. He invited us to stay with him for two days. We accepted his gracious invitation, but it was a challenge to commu- nicate. Neither Antonio nor his wife spoke English, while Sara and I know a little, but not much, Spanish. We could get by and travel comfortably in Spanish speaking countries, but it is hard for us to understand and convey sophisticated concepts. We had to speak Spanish the two days we were with Señor and Señora Poleo. To my surprise, I found out that Antonio Poleo had been teaching peace education in southern Spain as long as I had been teaching it at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee—since 1983. He was a social worker who helped train teachers. I asked him about the history of Peace Education from the Grassroots, pages ix–xx Copyright © 2013 by Information Age Publishing All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. ix EBSCOhost - printed on 10/1/2020 12:39 PM via MCGILL UNIV. All use subject to https://www.ebsco.com/terms-of-use x Preface peace education in Spain. He responded with an earlier draft of his essay in this collection. What fascinated me about his presentation was that there was no one per- son, no academic whom he credited with the evolution of peace education. Rather he referred to groups of people meeting informally in each other’s houses and studying Gandhi, or offering support to the Sandinistas in Ni- caragua, or teaching about the nuclear threat, or supporting human rights initiatives, or trying to free prisoners through Amnesty International, and other such activities. Some of these groups were church based, some were community based, while others were teachers. All of them were using peace education tactics to advance their peace agendas. Some were sponsoring con- ferences; some were teaching courses to adults; others were writing newslet- ters, staging rallies, promoting multiculturalism and anti-imperialism, chal- lenging racism, and/or infusing peace concepts into their lessons. What was so surprising to me was that I knew similar activities were tak- ing place in the United States at the same time, but I never thought of an intellectual discipline advancing from the grassroots. I always thought that the history of ideas advanced through the insights of gifted intellectuals, say Descartes, who advanced mathematics, or Newton, who changed our un- derstanding of the universe, or Locke, who advanced ideas of democracy, or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who promoted civil rights, or Maria Mon- tessori, who promoted peace education as an antidote to fascism, or Jane Addams, who championed the cause of immigrants rights, or Desmond Tutu, who advanced forgiveness and reconciliation as a means to resolve