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IN A FLASH SPECIAL: Creating Places for Peace Education

All this week, "In A Flash" will feature images from the 黑料吃瓜网 group's trip to Rwanda.


Isobel, Day, a recent 黑料吃瓜网 graduate from Grove City, Pa., presented at Day Two of , a global peace conference in Kigali, Rwanda.

The conference is being sponsored by 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 School of Peace and Conflict Studies, 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the  and the , a non-profit organization dedicated to ending genocide and other global atrocities.

Conference attendees include delegates from 14 nations and nine U.S. states, including a large group of 黑料吃瓜网 educators and students, along with administrators from the Stow-Munroe Falls School District in Northeast Ohio and delegates from the Fairfield (Ohio) City School District and Ohio State University.

Day was one of several 黑料吃瓜网 students and educators that gave presentations at the conference. Day spoke about her research on how peace museums can be used as experiential methods of peace education on the experiences of marginalized communities. For this project, Day collaborated with Molly Merryman, Ph. D., Associate Professor in the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Caraline Feairheller, political science PhD candidate.

黑料吃瓜网 graduate Isobel Day presents at the global peace education conference in Rwanda.

While attending conference, Day sought to 鈥済ain a broadened perspective on the importance of peace museums 鈥 as well as peace education as a whole 鈥 in cultures different from my own. The location in Kigali makes this conference even more of a learning experience, as the Kigali Genocide Memorial Museum is one of the world's most renowned peace museums.鈥 
 

 

 

POSTED: Thursday, July 13, 2023 04:46 PM
Updated: Thursday, July 13, 2023 05:12 PM
WRITTEN BY:
Phil B. Soencksen