Danielle Whisnant outlines how contemporary issues that permeate nearly every aspect of American life and hinder effective foreign policy interventions can begin to be remedied by a reorientation of public education towards peace education cross-disciplinarily.
Michael Klare, a widely known and respected interpreter of global security issues outlines the contours of “The New Nuclear Era.” His essay is a “must-read” for peace educators, who should be aware of his account of the evolution of security policy that has brought us to this present crisis.
This OpEd from The New York Times demonstrates how the convergence of oppressions suffered by those who bear the greatest burdens of systemic and structural violence are also the most vulnerable to multiple forms of physical violence, including murder. It calls peace educators to awareness of the convergence as a foundation for an inquiry into the challenge of devising learning experiences to illuminate the prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory values that facilitate behavioral violence and uphold the structures.
Trump’s call for “patriotic education” is dangerous. Instead, our schools need peace education to help contend with this moment of reckoning with racial and other forms of inequality in a genuinely inclusive way.
The Gettysburg College Peace and Justice Studies Program, in collaboration with the Civil War Institute, is now accepting submissions of modern takes on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The competition is open to undergraduate or high school student residing in North America.
Kathy Beckwith’s book relates a history of America’s wars that includes “What America Missed in U.S. History Class.” She details why war sells, the fallacies of common justifications for war, true costs of war, and sensible alternatives. “A Mighty Case Against War” proposes that this culturally supported, deeply entrenched system of governmental violence is simply too costly, destructive, counterproductive, and inhumane to leave unchallenged.