Children as Peacemakers
an article by Candice Brunswick

Announcing a new book! For a really wonderful text which teaches children and their families peacemaking skills, you are invited to visit the website of Celebrating Peace.

Peace Quest is a practical, comprehensive, and motivational guide to living life as a peacemaker. The text is brimming with over 100 fun, creative, inter-generational lessons. This text has been widely field tested and is trusted by teachers, counselors, parents, faith groups, and a wide array of community groups.

Peace Quest encourages compassion, prevents violence, nurtures generosity, teaches respect and responsibility, and cultivates integrity. It is an essential tool for building peacemaking skills.

Each sale helps to give away peace resources to those who cannot afford them. Also, if you need to raise money for your organization, we have a plan where you can sell Peace Quest in your community and keep a large portion of the profits.

This site also includes free teacher pages and other fantastic information. We can be proactive and help create a compassionate generation!

The resources found at Celebrating Pace were created by a creative visionary and mother of four from Blair, NE, Kelly Guinan, who is an entrepreneaur of peace programming. For over a decade, she has worked tirelessly as a volunteer creating working models which she shares as a sort of template for others to use within their circle of influence. This model of creating programming rather than institutions has been very effective as the resources are being used literally all around the world. Please visit the site to find out more about Peace Quest, Young Peacemakers Club, PeaceMobile, Children's Peace Festivals, the Kindness Campaign and much more! Kelly has also created a charity, PeaceQuest, Inc. which provides the resources to those who want to empower children but can't afford the supplies.

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As PhD student in a Faculty of Education in Brazil, I find very important the discussion on the contribution of education to a peaceful world.

I think peace curriculum is possible since there is respect for cultural diversity, such as ethnical, religious, race, sex, gender and others in school's curricular and pedagogical practices as a means of building/developing values of tolerance and respect. There should be space in curriculum for students's voices, experiences and contributions. This way they will feel respectable and will also learn to respect the others.

Education may contribute a lot since it may help children and youth to become sensitive toward the importance of promoting peace among individuals, groups and nations.

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