PeaceJam is an international education program built around leading Nobel Peace Laureates who work personally with youth to pass on the spirit, skills, and wisdom they embody. The goal of PeaceJam is to inspire a new generation of peacemakers who will transform their local communities,...
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PeaceJam is an international education program built around leading Nobel Peace Laureates who work personally with youth to pass on the spirit, skills, and wisdom they embody. The goal of PeaceJam is to inspire a new generation of peacemakers who will transform their local communities, themselves, and the world.
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Although some of the youth involved in PeaceJam will be from neighborhood youth organizations, we have used the term student to describe all youth involved in the project because of its educational nature.

l. Students will understand the PeaceJam project - its scope, purpose, and...
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Although some of the youth involved in PeaceJam will be from neighborhood youth organizations, we have used the term student to describe all youth involved in the project because of its educational nature.

l. Students will understand the PeaceJam project - its scope, purpose, and the opportunities for youth education and action.

2. Students will be able to define the concepts and different dimensions of racism, violence and peace.

3. Students will determine what qualities and core values would go into the making of a peacemaker in their school, neighborhood, and world.

4. Students will be able to compare and contrast their own definitions of peacemaker with the criteria used to select the Nobel Peace Prize winners.

5. Students will conduct a case study on the life and actions of a Nobel Peace Laureate.

6. Students will discuss and develop an awareness of a Nobel Peace Laureate's views on how to make a friend out of an enemy.

7. Students will discuss and develop an awareness of a Nobel Peace Laureate's views on violence, racism and tolerance.

8. Students will discuss and develop an awareness of a Nobel Peace Laureate's views on responsibility, family, and community.

10. Students will discuss and develop an awareness of a Nobel Peace Laureate's culture.

11. Students will demonstrate their ability to be active problem solvers and peacemakers by:

a) designing and implementing a school or neighborhood-based service project or participate in one that already exists either locally or globally that addresses a problem and exemplifies the qualities of active problem solvers and the core values of peacemakers.
b) preparing a poster that depicts their action peace plan to bring to the conference.

12. Students will formulate three key questions to ask the Nobel Peace Laureate during the conference about their home country, racism and violence, the reconciliation process or their own concerns about their neighborhood or world.

13. Students will select four representatives from their class to attend the PeaceJam conference. The representatives from each class will present the proposals and ideas formulated in their class at the conference.

14. The student representatives will share the highlights of this conference with their class, and they will then work together to implement their community service project.

15. Students will develop and implement performance evaluation criteria for assessing where they are in their peacemaking apprenticeship.
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