About Pax Educare
 Pax Educare is a resource center for the research, study
and the teaching of peace. We link families, educators and
community practitioners to partnering opportunities in order
to help promote the processes and skills needed to build
a more peaceful world.
Pax Educare...
- Maintains an active library of materials in peace
and peace education, nonviolence, social justice, diversity
and multiculturalism,
and environmental sustainability
- Maintains a web site with current relevant information and
links to other organizations
- Helps scholars, students, educators and community service
providers locate resources, on peace, peace research, peace
education and peacemaking
- Edits and distributes a newsletter
- Sponsors educational and artistic events, sometimes in collaboration
with other community groups
- Provides personal consultation on curricula and resources,
including relevant training
- Provides workshops on nonviolence and conflict transformation
for youth and adults
- Engages in the conducting and dissemination of research in
peace and conflict studies
Our Goal...
Our goal is to engage individuals and groups
in pursuing further knowledge in peace and conflict studies.
Some of our
partners include:
We work in conjunction
with
various institutions offering programs and/or courses in
peace and conflict studies including:
- Saint Joseph College
- Central Connecticut State University
- The University of Hartford
- Peace Education Program at Columbia Teachers College
- University of Connecticut
- Watkinson School
We link a network of educators and community practitioners interested
in teaching peace.
History of the Pax Educare
Pax Educare was founded in early 2003 with a mission
to promote the importance of engaging in the practice of education
to build a more hopeful and interdependent world. Our first kick-off
activity was an intergenerational Peace Day, held at the Learning
Corridor in October of 2002 in Hartford, featuring experiential
workshops, music, dancing and singing. See our photo
gallery for
pictures of the two Peace Days.
Our partnering with many other organizations has continued, our
library has grown, our twice yearly newsletters reach an audience
of over 500 households. For the past several years, we have intentionally
partnered with academic institutions to promote the study, research
and teaching of peace and to affirm the importance of peace as
a field of study. Student interns from area colleges provide invaluable
help in many ways and, because we intentionally remain small and
grass-roots and promote an egalitarian pedagogical approach, students
and volunteers are considered "staff" as much as is director
Mary Lee Morrison. We encourage visitors to come in, learn more
about peace as a pedagogical process and utilize our resource networks.
We engage in small research projects, often with the help of partnering
organizations.
We provide workshops on nonviolence and peace building. For the
past five years, we have been coordinating a coalition of schools
and organizations who are learning the HIPP (Help Increase the
Peace Program), a program first developed by Quakers and the American
Friends Service Committee. HIPP is an experiential, inter-generational,
dynamic and community building series of 3 workshops which is geared
toward transforming the violence and oppression in our lives and
in the wider society, beginning with each of us. We are part of
a wider, international HIPP network. For further information on
HIPP, see our HIPP link.
We remain intentionally small and grass-roots. We endeavor to get
to know most of those who receive our newsletters and notices of
activities. We rely on donations for most of our operating expenses.
We receive small grants for our youth work and for other, small
projects. We are grateful to contributors. If you would like to
donate to Pax Educare, information can be obtained on the Contributions
link on the Home Page.
  
Mary Lee Morrison shared
the speaking table with Hartford Seminary Muslim scholar Ingrid
Mattson in May, in conversation with audience participants, in an
evening devoted to Women of Faith as Advocates for Peace".
St. Patrick/St. Anthony Parish's Franciscan Center for Urban Ministry
in Hartford
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