The mission of this class is to provide the tools for participants to create positive atmospheres of peace, and apply what they learned back in their own schools and local communities. This course will be an engaging discussion-based conversation, in which we will focus on what the ideas of peace, positivity, and empathy mean to us, and think about the everyday strategies we can use to feel empowered. In doing so, we will hope to understand how we can use the powerful talents we already possess, learning from examples of peaceful displays of nonviolent power in history. By empowering ourselves as students, we can frame our interactions with others in a way that focuses on respect, inclusivity, and joy for the larger communities we share. Through a variety of interactive activities, we will share our personal experiences and opinions to build strategies for how we can make our futures more positive, peaceful, and successful.

The mission of this class is to provide the tools for participants to create positive atmospheres of peace, and bring what they learned back to their own schools and local communities. This course will be an engaging discussion-based conversation, in which we will focus on what the ideas of peace, positivity, and empathy mean to us, and think about the everyday strategies we can use to feel empowered and understand how we can use the powerful talents we already possess. By empowering ourselves as students, we can frame our interactions with others in a way that focuses on respect, inclusivity, and joy for the larger communities we share. Through a variety of interactive activities, we will share our diversity of experiences and opinions to build strategies for how we can make all of our futures more positive and peaceful.

What does peace mean? What does a peaceful society look like? We will brainstorm more general definitions of peace together as a class. Next, we will share our own definitions of peace based on our personal background and values with one another and learn about the diversity of perspectives on a peaceful world.

The Teaching Peace Initiative is an organization run by students for students. Its mission is to provide the tools for participants to create positive atmospheres of peace, and bring what they learned back to their own schools and local communities. This course will be an engaging discussion-based conversation, in which we will talk about what peace means personally to us through a variety of interactive activities, and we will share our diversity of experiences and opinions to build strategies for how we can make all of our futures more peaceful.