Education for Peace
Wednesday, Feb. 26th, 12:00pm Eastern Time, Zoom
As we continue to witness intractable conflicts, climate chaos, famine, war & the rise of fascism & extremism, people have existential concerns and are looking for outlets to learn from, imagine alternative worlds, find ways to dialogue. This workshop, with Rev. Dr. Leonisa Ardizzone, will serve as an introduction to Peace Education. Peace Education began as a study of the causes of war and its prevention but has evolved into the study of violence in all its manifestations and educating to counteract the war system for the creation of a peace system on structural and individual levels.
Peace education methodology is progressive, promoting egalitarian learning environments, open inquiry & significant learner participation. Peace Education asks learners to examine a) impediments to peace, b) structural forces that limit peaceful conditions, c) root causes of impediments, d) roles we play as agents of change to enact peace on personal, interpersonal, communal & global levels, e) methods of nonviolent communication/action.
The Rev. Dr. Leonisa Ardizzone has been a science and peace educator for 30 years. She has degrees in Biology (BA), Science Education (Ed.M.), and International Educational Development with a specialization in Peace Education (MA, Ph.D.). She received her MDiv in 2017 (Union Theological Seminary) and was ordained into the Unitarian Universalist ministry in 2019. Currently, Leonisa is a Visiting Professor at Vassar College, the founder of the Peace Education Center of the Hudson Valley (www.pechv.org), the C0-Chair of the Broader Social Impacts Committee at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, a Community Minister in Ulster County, NY, an author, a musician, and a mom.
With gratitude,
The Zen Peacemakers Team