Peace Studies brings to life a part of History that is rarely discussed. It brings forward an untold part of History that we must know if Peace is to be a way of life. The Cultures of Peace have been a Big part of the story around the world. The History of Peace Studies and the Action of Peace Studies begins Now .
RAIN Network has developed a new Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Community Education Program and curricula which is available both online and as printed study guides and workbooks, in Spanish and English. Go to http://www.rain.org to review our work.
The Peace Studies, Social Justice and Conflict Resolution youth and community adult education classes offer a strong focus on peace education resources of value to regional Government Agency staff as well as to the community. The Peace Education Program strengthens peace education activities by providing new learning resources which teach ways to build and sustain peace, and establish a solid foundation of social justice
The curriculum accomplishes this by providing learning resources to reduce violence, enhance personal integrity and foster mutual respect. The intention of the Peace Studies program is to create a model of shared Peace Learning activities between rural communities in multiple Nations which we believe will then be expanded to create a Network of Peace and Conflict Education which draws on the skills, and experiences of rural community residents in many regions.
We believe that rural communities have a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience which can add in a valuable way to Peace Studies work relevant to residents in rural and urban areas around the world.
The Peace Studies curriculum teaches Conflict Resolution and Prejudice Reduction. The curriculum includes Internet Video instructional units which involve participates in documenting issues which create an important focus on local success stories in peace making as well as creating visibility for issues of peace and social justice which need to be dealt with.
The curriculum makes materials available for teachers, military personnel and regional Government staff focused on the causes of violence within the community and the processes of peacemaking, and the conditions which make peace and social justice possible.
Participants not only learn important peace making and conflict resolution skills, they also go away from the study will new skills in Internet video development that will permit them to continue the work long after the grant is finished. The curriculum teaches problem-solving skills which can change the climate of their schools and neighborhood. The video and web materials provide the materials for people to use to then go out and teach their friends and family.
RAIN Network has delivered a Peace Education and Conflict Resolution curriculum to over 35,000 4th-12th grade students since 1995 through funding provided by the USDA, the U.S. Department of Education, and private Foundations. RAIN Network’s Peace Works Project has received poems and stories of peace learning from young students in 20 different countries since 2004. RAIN Network’s Peace and Social Justice Studies program features special units prepared with the assistance of Dr. Robert Muller, Dr. Harvey Wheeler and Dr. Chris Landon.
The Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies program introduces participants to the study of conflict transformation. The curriculum is designed to provide the practical tools needed to work on issues related to Peace and Social Justice as well as Conflict Resolution. Specifically, the curriculum introduces tools for the analysis of conflict, offers training in the methods of conflict resolution, imparts ethical, moral, and philosophical insights into the process of creating peaceful social change and provides opportunities for experiential learning through internships working with RAIN Network’s Youth Technology Corps creating video documentaries and serving as Mentors in their local communities.
The curriculum provides resources for the study of Conflict within the community along with the theory and practice of Conflict Resolution, and Nonviolent Social Change. Each unit of the curriculum is accompanied by a video unit presenting discussions and practical examples of the area being studied.
The curriculum has the ability to expand each participant's awareness and understanding of how the practice of nonviolence can dramatically improve the quality of their life. As each person incorporates the practice of nonviolence into their day-to-day approach to life, they impact their friends, family and their entire community. The guiding principle behind the curriculum is that Peace encompasses respect of self and others, co-operation, trust, non-violence and a sense of caring responsibility towards the earth and society.
An important value to the program is that through the video learning units there is a potential for positive impact on the wider community, outside of the classroom and home, to include State and Federal legislators, regional Government Staff and regional Peace Keeping agencies. The curriculum gives special attention to peace education for adults providing lessons in little-understood elements of human cooperation, such as trust, altruism, and sacrifice, as well as the study of how violent collective action is rationalized and routinized as nation-states conduct police actions within their own borders and war with other nations.
Peace Studies has been part of RAIN Network’s online learning curriculum since 1994.
We have been building Peace Studies resources and hosting a yearly Peace Poems Project which has students from around the world sharing poems about Peace.
If you have a Poem or Story to share or want to read what others have sent in from around the world go to: http://www.rain.org/campinternet/peaceworks/ to take part in our PeaceWorks Project.
You may ask what does a Community Internet Network have to do with Peace Studies?
Its simple. The “Framework” which goes to make up a Community’s idea, (or Ideal), of what everyone should expect as far as online and school learning tools and resources must include studies in the History of Peaceful Cultures and the Literature of Peace. Community Education Programs, Public Schools and Afterschool Programs must include Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Studies, for young students, High School students and adults.
As we have sought to find ways to make use of new technology in order to help re-weave the fabric of the traditional, sustainable, American Community, we have seen many, many times how important it is that we help create an expectation of “sustainability” and an expectation of “peace” when we discuss the future of our “community”. Expectation, not “I wish we could” is the key here.
RAIN Community Network designed both peace studies and conflict resolution study units into our Smithsonian Award winning Camp Internet online program and our online HomeSchool program.
Let me share with you part of the introduction to the Peace Studies online class hosted by RAIN:
Throughout history People have always had to deal with problems of war and violence.
Today we deal with these kind of problems not only between Countries around the world but also in our neighborhoods and schools.
The Camp Internet Peace Studies Class will give you the Background, Vocabulary and Historical Insight to understand that peace is possible, that it has often been the normal condition of things.
During our study we will work to build skills which we can apply, in our classrooms or homeschools. We will learn about Tools which will help make each of us better able to facilitate or make possible Peaceful Communication and Interaction, (between different peoples and between people and the earth they walk on).
Your study of Peace this year is divided into 2 main units.
First is "The History of Peace Studies". This unit involves history, art and literature, economics and agriculture.
The second part of your Peace Studies is called "Conflict Resolution".
This unit involves the study of why and how to engage in Consensus decision making as well as how and when to engage in conflict resolution or mediation. Useful skills at school, in the community and at home.
Some of the vocabulary in our Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution classes will be complex words like "consensus". We’ll learn how important words like consensus can be in building peace. During our studies we will all learn new words, new communication skills.
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To explore our Peace Studies online class go to http://www.rain.org/peace-studies.
To explore our class in Transcendentalism go to:
http://www.rain.org/homeschool/history/transcendentalism.html
Send email to rain@rain.org if you have questions or want to take part.
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Labels: conflict resolution, peace studies, peaceful cultures, transcendentalism
Friday, December 21, 2007
Peace Studies
Winter Solstice 2007 -
Peace Studies as part of your Community Network Information Framework - Make that Your New Year’s Wish.
Winter Solstice and Christmas 2007 is an important time to discuss Peace with your Friends and Family and to take actions that will ensure Peace Studes becomes part of our School’s Curriculum and part of our Personal Study each week.
Peace Studies has part of RAIN Network’s online learning campus since 1994.
We have been building Peace Studies resources and hosting a yearly Peace Poems Project which has students from around the world sharing poems about Peace.
If you have a Poem or Story to share or want to read what others have sent in from around the world go to: http://www.rain.org/campinternet/peaceworks/ to take part in our PeaceWorks Project.
You may ask what does a Community Internet Network have to do with Peace Studies?
Its simple. The “Framework” which goes to make up a Community’s idea, (or Ideal), of what everyone should expect as far as easily available learning tools and resources, (the same as we expect to have schools, libraries and parks). Community Education Programs, Public Schools and Afterschool Programs must include Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Studies, for young students, High School students and adults.
As we have sought to find ways to make use of new technology in order to help re-weave the fabric of a traditional, sustainable, American Community, we have seen many, many times how important it is that we help create an expectation of “sustainability” and an expectation of “peace” when we discuss the future of our “community”. Expectation, now “I wish we could” is the key there.
We designed both peace studies and conflict resolution study units into our Smithsonian Award winning Camp Internet online program and our online HomeSchool program.
Hear is a part of the introduction to the Peace Studies online campus:
Through out history People have always had to deal with problems of war and violence.
Today we deal with these kind of problems not only between Countries around the world but also in our neighborhoods and schools.
The Camp Internet Peace Studies Class will give you the Background, Vocabulary and Historical Insight to understand that peace is possible, that it has often been the normal condition of things.
During our study we will work to build skills which we can apply, in our classroom or homeschool, Tools which will help make each of us better able to facilitate or make possible Peaceful Communication and Interaction, (between different peoples and between people and the earth they walk on).
To explore our Peace Studies online campus go to http://www.rain.org/peace-studies.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Our Time - Our History - Peace Studies Now
Peace Studies brings to life a part of History that is rarely discussed. It brings forward an untold part of History that we must know if Peace is to be a way of life. The Cultures of Peace have been a Big part of the story around the world. The History of Peace Studies and the Action of Peace Studies begins Now .
Peace Studies has been part of RAIN Network’s online learning curriculum since 1994.
We have been building Peace Studies resources and hosting a yearly Peace Poems Project which has students from around the world sharing poems about Peace.
If you have a Poem or Story to share or want to read what others have sent in from around the world go to: http://www.rain.org/campinternet/peaceworks/ to take part in our PeaceWorks Project.
You may ask what does a Community Internet Network have to do with Peace Studies?
Its simple. The “Framework” which goes to make up a Community’s idea, (or Ideal), of what everyone should expect as far as online and school learning tools and resources must include studies in the History of Peaceful Cultures and the Literature of Peace. Community Education Programs, Public Schools and Afterschool Programs must include Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Studies, for young students, High School students and adults.
As we have sought to find ways to make use of new technology in order to help re-weave the fabric of the traditional, sustainable, American Community, we have seen many, many times how important it is that we help create an expectation of “sustainability” and an expectation of “peace” when we discuss the future of our “community”. Expectation, not “I wish we could” is the key here.
RAIN Community Network designed both peace studies and conflict resolution study units into our Smithsonian Award winning Camp Internet online program and our online HomeSchool program.
Let me share with you part of the introduction to the Peace Studies online class hosted by RAIN:
Throughout history People have always had to deal with problems of war and violence.
Today we deal with these kind of problems not only between Countries around the world but also in our neighborhoods and schools.
The Camp Internet Peace Studies Class will give you the Background, Vocabulary and Historical Insight to understand that peace is possible, that it has often been the normal condition of things.
During our study we will work to build skills which we can apply, in our classrooms or homeschools. We will learn about Tools which will help make each of us better able to facilitate or make possible Peaceful Communication and Interaction, (between different peoples and between people and the earth they walk on).
Your study of Peace this year is divided into 2 main units.
First is "The History of Peace Studies". This unit involves history, art and literature, economics and agriculture.
The second part of your Peace Studies is called "Conflict Resolution".
This unit involves the study of why and how to engage in Consensus decision making as well as how and when to engage in conflict resolution or mediation. Useful skills at school, in the community and at home.
Some of the vocabulary in our Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution classes will be complex words like "consensus". We’ll learn how important words like consensus can be in building peace. During our studies we will all learn new words, new communication skills.
================================================================================
To explore our Peace Studies online class go to http://www.rain.org/peace-studies.
To explore our class in Transcendentalism go to:
http://www.rain.org/homeschool/history/transcendentalism.html
Send email to rain@rain.org if you have questions or want to take part.
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Labels: conflict resolution, peace studies, peaceful cultures, transcendentalism
Friday, December 21, 2007
Peace Studies
Winter Solstice 2007 -
Peace Studies as part of your Community Network Information Framework - Make that Your New Year’s Wish.
Winter Solstice and Christmas 2007 is an important time to discuss Peace with your Friends and Family and to take actions that will ensure Peace Studes becomes part of our School’s Curriculum and part of our Personal Study each week.
Peace Studies has part of RAIN Network’s online learning campus since 1994.
We have been building Peace Studies resources and hosting a yearly Peace Poems Project which has students from around the world sharing poems about Peace.
If you have a Poem or Story to share or want to read what others have sent in from around the world go to: http://www.rain.org/campinternet/peaceworks/ to take part in our PeaceWorks Project.
You may ask what does a Community Internet Network have to do with Peace Studies?
Its simple. The “Framework” which goes to make up a Community’s idea, (or Ideal), of what everyone should expect as far as easily available learning tools and resources, (the same as we expect to have schools, libraries and parks). Community Education Programs, Public Schools and Afterschool Programs must include Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Studies, for young students, High School students and adults.
As we have sought to find ways to make use of new technology in order to help re-weave the fabric of a traditional, sustainable, American Community, we have seen many, many times how important it is that we help create an expectation of “sustainability” and an expectation of “peace” when we discuss the future of our “community”. Expectation, now “I wish we could” is the key there.
We designed both peace studies and conflict resolution study units into our Smithsonian Award winning Camp Internet online program and our online HomeSchool program.
Hear is a part of the introduction to the Peace Studies online campus:
Through out history People have always had to deal with problems of war and violence.
Today we deal with these kind of problems not only between Countries around the world but also in our neighborhoods and schools.
The Camp Internet Peace Studies Class will give you the Background, Vocabulary and Historical Insight to understand that peace is possible, that it has often been the normal condition of things.
During our study we will work to build skills which we can apply, in our classroom or homeschool, Tools which will help make each of us better able to facilitate or make possible Peaceful Communication and Interaction, (between different peoples and between people and the earth they walk on).
Your study of Peace this year is divided into 2 main units.
First is "Peace Studies". This unit involves history, art and literature, economics and agriculture.
The second part of your Peace Studies is called "Conflict Resolution".
This unit involves the study of why and how to engage in Consensus decision making as well as how and when to engage in conflict resolution or mediation. Useful skills at school, in the community and at home.
Some of the vocabulary, (words) in our Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution classes will be complex words like "consensus". We’ll learn how important “words” can be in building peace. During our studies we will all learn "new words".
Our “Vocabulary of Peace” related words will increase and with the new vocabulary / new words will come an important growth in our ability to "talk about" and "ask questions" about Peace.
To explore our Peace Studies online campus go to http://www.rain.org/peace-studies.
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Labels: christmas, community internet, community networks, peace, peace studies, peaceworks, winter solstice
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Peace Studies and Community Networks
Peace Studies is part of our Community Network Information Framework.
Since 1994 we have been building Peace Studies resources and hosting a yearly Peace Poems Project which has students from around the world sharing poems about Peace.
What does a Community Network have to do with Peace Studies?
First, and perhaps most importantly, we provide an online resources center and learning campus that can be used by anyone. We also teach Technology Literacy classes which focus on learning about the “Framework” which goes to make up our Communities idea, (or Ideal), of what everyone should expect as far as easily available learning tools and resources, (like schools, libraries and parks and online web sites that link small business, local government and health resources together in one place). We study ways in which a communities "technology framework" or "technology plan" can include Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Studies, for young students, High School classes and adults.
Community Networks are always working to find ways to make use of new technology in order to help strengthen local communication and learning, to help re-weave the fabric of the Community in a ways that ensure sustainability and communication.
We have seen many times how important it is that we help create an expectation of “sustainability” and an expectation of “peace” when we discuss plans and ideas about the future of our “community”. 21st Century Community Planning and Design must include these kinds of ideas.
We created both peace studies and conflict resolution study units for our Smithsonian Award winning Camp Internet online program and our online HomeSchool program.
Here is a part of the Introduction to the Peace Studies online campus:
Throughout history People have always had to deal with problems of war and violence.
Today we deal with these kind of problems not only between Countries around the world but also in our neighborhoods and schools.
The Camp Internet Peace Studies Class will give you the Background, Vocabulary and Historical Insight to understand that peace is possible. To understand that Peace has often been the normal condition of things.
During our study we will work to build skills which we can apply, in our classroom or homeschool, Tools which will help make each of us better able to facilitate or make possible Peaceful Communication and Interaction, (between different peoples and between people and the earth they walk on).
Your study of Peace this year is divided into 2 main units.
First is "Peace Studies". This unit involves history, art and literature, economics and agriculture.
The second part of your Peace Studies is called "Conflict Resolution".
This unit involves the study of why and how to engage in Consensus decision making as well as how and when to engage in conflict resolution or mediation. Useful skills at school, in the community and at home.
Some of the vocabulary, (words) in our Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution classes will be complex words like "consensus". We’ll learn how important “words” can be in building peace. During our studies we will all learn "new words".
Our “Vocabulary of Peace” related words will increase and with the new vocabulary / new words will come an important growth in our ability to "talk about" and "ask questions" about Peace.
The Peace Studies class goes on to teach students about the History of the Peace Movement, about the importance of Transcendentalism in American history and much more.
To explore our Peace Studies online campus go to http://www.rain.org/peace-studies
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Building an Internet Bridge - Part 5 - Community Wellness and Health
Building an Internet Bridge – Part 5
Community Wellness, what does your Community Internet Network have to do with community health and wellness?
An Important part of the RAIN Network is our Central California Telemedicine Network. The Network coordinates Telemedicine Services to rural communities and low income urban areas not currently receiving regular Clinic or telemedicine services.
From the earliest days of our Community Internet projects, when the influence of the old BBS approach was still strong, there has been an organic understanding that one of the purposes of this new technology is to improve the quality of peoples lives, starting with improved Health and Wellness information access along with improved use of telemedicine as a means to ensure low income, seniior and family health care is always there, no matter how rural or how inner city.
RAIN Network’s highly innovative Rural Community Telemedicine Project puts its focus on the preparation of an effective Community and Neighborhood level Health Resource, with a strong focus on Health Information for schools, families, seniors and migrant farm workers. Special work on emerency preparation at the Community Level (for issues such as an avian flu pandemic) makes RAIN’s Rural Community Health Education and Telemedicine program very important. We work to establish a distance education program designed for K-12 Schools which will ensure access to vital school information as well as daily learning resources for student and family use in the event of school closures. The RAIN Telemedicine Network links over 24 clinics together and gives everyone in the community a better way to access health resources, wellness video and learning materials and much more.
RAIN Network’s Central California Rural Health Care Network has developed a Rural Health GIS maping system. The GIS system has been used to map clinics, public housing, schools and rural community information during 5 USDA funded telemedicine and distance learning grant projects and is designed to make use of new API’s and media interface tools which create a highly innovative, interactive GIS data system allowing physicians, nurses and other rural health care professionals to make real-time updates to the GIS data-sets from rural locations as well as to gather information. Most importantly, because “community” level use has been central to our GIS planning we have development GIS mapping systems which permit regular end user input, so rural community residents or community residents can input data for specific mapping projects. The GIS system has become a two way, highly interact tool.
We believe the preparation of a solid Telemedicine Application Framework which outlines methods to be used to coordinate Telemedicine applications and health information distribution to Rural Communities, including very rural seniors, farm and ranch workers and families is essential and projects completed by RAIN Internet provide excellent, working models which are easy to follow in setting up new rural and urban community Internet networks.
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
Building an Internet Bridge Part 4 - Creating Community Technology Centers
Building an Internet Bridge – part 4 –
Creating Community Technology Centers which ensured Free Public Access for the Community.
We have been discussing the Framework which RAIN Network was establishing in the early 1990's to help define the National development of Community oriented Internet Networks or “FreeNets”.
That first Framework for Community Internet was made of these parts:
•Services to Small Farms, (early Ag-Tourism efforts, Small Farm online marketing)
•Services to community non-profits and community government
•Distance learning services for public schools, charter schools and home schools
•Telemedicine services for rural and chronically underserved urban seniors, families, and youth.
•Services to community Small Business to build new e-commerce skills
•Community Technology Literacy Skills development
•Services to non-English language speaking community residents
To help make these services available and understood in the Community RAIN Internet hosted technology skills classes and provided online access at Farmers Markets, Schools and Senior Centers on site using the Network’s Internet Bus. The Internet Bus was developed through USDA funding, designed to provide a mobile Computer learning lab with solar panels on the roof of the bus providing power and a satellite dish on the roof providing Internet connectivity.
The idea was to have a local Community Technology Lab and a mobile Tech Lab that could get out to those in our Community who did not have transportation to get to the Lab.
For 11 years, from 1994 to 2005, RAIN’s Community Technology Center in Santa Barbara, California, U.S., provided a model for other communities to follow in setting up an effective, well used Community Technology Learning Lab, library and meeting place used by over 500 non-profit organizations, over 2000 local small businesses as well as by families, teaches, seniors and youth, as a place to come to get online, learning about the Internet and build Technology Literacy Skills. The Santa Barbara RAIN Community Internet Lab was the Training Lab for Teachers, Physicians, Small Business owners and students.
Community Technology Centers are as important to every town and city as Public Libraries are. They provide a place where low income families, seniors, youth, (basically, anyone in the community who needs it) can come for free Internet Access and regular Technology Literacy Skills classes.
The Community Tech Centers are as important for the growth of American Technology as access to adequate bandwidth for rural areas. They ensure that the Internet becomes something regular folks understand. It is important to remember that each Community Technology Center in the United States and Europe represents a point of Free Access for members of the community who might not otherwise have that access. In a time when we see the U.S. Justice Department saying 2 Tier Internet is ok it becomes all the more essential that we provide free points of access to members of the Community who need it.
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Monday, September 3, 2007
What does Your Community Internet have to do with your Schools?
RAIN Community Internet worked with Homeplanet.net to create Camp Internet in 1994. Camp Internet is an online learning campus with classes and study programs for everyone from 4th grade through Adult Life Long Learning which has received a Smithsonian Institution Technology Innovation Award. Special study areas like Linux for High Schoolers and Adults, Ancient Southwest History, the History of the California Channel Islands, GIS data mapping, and Exploring the California BackCounty are just part of the new resources found within the Camp Internet online campus. Bi-lingual picture books in many study areas are available for younger students to give them access to all the exciting resources available for older students.
Our Camp Internet program is one of the strongest examples of the positive impact a regional non-profit Community Internet can have. Through Camp Internet and a valued series of grants from the USDA Rural Utilities Service, we have been able to train Teachers each year dramatically improving Technology Literacy Skills at all the schools we work with. Since 1998 over 25,000 4th - 12th grade students have used Camp Internet for at least one full year of curriculum support.
Go to:
http://www.campinternet.net to explore this innovative and valuable example of the services provided by your Community Internet Network.
Go to:
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/2007-2008/briefing-back-to-school-aug-20-2007.html
to read the Back To School Briefing for 2007.
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Labels: community internet, homeschool, online learning, rural
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