About Pax Educare
 Pax
Educare, as
a resource center, seeks to build public understanding of
peace education and to promote and advocate for the importance
of integrating peace and sustainability principles and concepts
into every aspect of education, both formal and informal.
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 a small research and browsing 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
- Provides speaking engagements, workshops and mentoring
on using education to build cultures of peace and promote
sustainability, engaging in dialogue and networking and community
building for the development of a more peaceful and hopeful
world
- Provides personal consultation on curricula and resources,
including relevant training
- Provides workshops on nonviolence and conflict transformation
for youth and adults. We are the local coordinating
agency for the Help Increase the Peace Program (HIPP)
- 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:
- Central Connecticut State University
- Manchester Community College
- Peace Education Program at Columbia Teachers College
- Saint Joseph College
- University of Connecticut
- University of Hartford
- 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
twice yearly newsletters reach an audience of over 900 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. In the past, student interns from area colleges
provided 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.
Diane Desnoyers,
Chair, Board of Directors
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR)
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