The Multi-Dimensional Complex Components of Global Healing
The Pandemic virus makes neighbors fear neighbors BUT
creative ingenuity left a surprise packet on my kitchen doorsteps never having
to violate the quarantine rule against assembling. My neighbor left the most
thoughtful children’s story which she had written two yes ago. The title of the
book says it all: My Two Cities. The biography is about Hanni who 12 years was
old when the German Anschluss occurred. Her father, mother, sister and Hanni
had to say goodbye to their home, pack up and go to America to escape the Nazi
take over.
My neighbor may have heard about my interest and work on
Global Healing. I have yet to find the most appropriate time to interview her,
we have spoken on the telephone and have plans to make a ‘zoom date’ soon. My
neighbor and Hanni will be presenting a book talk at the Brookline Public
Library tomorrow so I will attend that on Zoom as well. I will keep you updated
on what happens next!
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Are you familiar with the Black educator, John Hunter?
He invented the World Peace game for his students in 1978.
He wrote a book about it called World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements.
There’s even a documentary about his game and his class with the same title.
http://rosaliafilms.com/world-peace-dvd/
He did a TedTalk about his game on April 26, 2011.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ted+talk+John+Hunter+2011&docid=608018144624643644&mid=A493945A7E9C97A26575A493945A7E9C97A26575&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
He also has a website called the World Peace Game Foundation.
https://worldpeacegame.org
Here is their mission statement:
"The World Peace Game Foundation is dedicated to teaching children the work of peace. Guided by the life work of educator John Hunter, The Foundation uses the World Peace Game to foster the concept of peace not as a utopian dream but as an attainable goal to strive for, and to stimulate the creative development of educational tools for this effort. It supports development of collaboration and communication skills for resolving and transforming conflicts, and the development of the skills of compromise, all while accommodating different perspectives and interests."
The World Peace game is an excellent example of an educational simulation that has “multi-dimensional complex components."
Peace,
Peter Rawitsch
Are you familiar with the Student Peace Alliance?
http://www.studentpeacealliance.org
"The Student Peace Alliance is a free program of the Peace Alliance. We are national network of chapters, student organizations, and individual students from various disciplines that take action to reduce incarceration, conflict, punitive punishment, and their collateral consequences - and to build peace in our communities. We do this by advocating for legislation, campus policies, and practices that have a positive impact, and providing virtual advocacy training, leadership support, national action oriented campaigns, and chapter development support."
I like their The Five Cornerstones of "Be the Movement."
Empowering Community Peacebuilding:
Supporting comprehensive activities and strategies in communities working to address such challenges as crime, violence, and gangs. Effective programs may include hands-on street outreach and intervention, mental health services, out-of-school programs, police/community relations, and arts-based practices. Learn more!
Teaching Peace in Schools:
Bringing into our schools conflict resolution curricula with tools such as social-emotional learning, communication techniques, restorative processes, mindfulness and other proven peacebuilding skills to increase graduation rates and transform violence, bullying, truancy, and other challenges facing youth. Learn more!
Humanizing Justice Systems:
Moving away from overly punitive policies, toward healing-oriented criminal and juvenile justice approaches. Restorative justice, diversion/alternative incarceration programs, trauma-informed systems, and prisoner rehabilitation & re-entry programs are among the most promising solutions. Learn more!
Cultivating Personal Peace:
Integrating peace in our own lives, with our children, in our relationships, in the workplace, and in our approach to activism, through such methods as compassionate communication, mindfulness, empathy, and stress reduction. Learn more!
Fostering International Peace:
Championing peacebuilding approaches to international conflict and atrocity prevention in hotspots through mediation, diplomacy, and effective on-the-ground programs. Important components may involve development, post-conflict justice, humanitarian aid, mediation and support for frameworks necessary for democratic processes. Learn more!
Peace, Peter
Having worked in colleges/universities for the past 37 years, I was reading your blog and fantasizing about any institution of higher learning that could/would initiate a major for GLOBAL HEALING. A Google search brought me to this curriculum for a capstone class at Portland State University:
https://capstone.unst.pdx.edu/courses/meditation-for-global-healing
And then I found this lovely chant for global healing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8YvluWYnz8
These offerings address the general and the specific healing necessary in the world today.
Thank you for the energy you give all of us!