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The Children's Global Peace Project is a non-profit organization that empowers children worldwide to transform their challenging emotions and conflicts into healthy self expression and peaceful co-creation. Through experiential games and exercises, multicultural songs, dance, and art, students learn to move beyond prejudice and assumption to realize their potential, their connection to each other, and the global human family. Formed a bit more than a year ago, it is building a global network of schools where every child discovers the power of peace and interconnectedness. Its mission is to help children find peace and strength within, harmony with others, and beauty in diversity. Doug’s guests are the founders of the Children’s Global Peace Project are Theresa Tajali Tolan and Kevin Lockwood.
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Kevin explains to Doug that schools can provide a neutral ground to teach peace. He sees a paradigm shift occurring from fighting for peace to growing peace from within. The children's global peace project began when Tajali taught her daughter's class peacemaking exercises and dances. Kevin and Tajali have learned that peace must be experienced before it can be taught as a skill or mindset. In the Global Peace Project, children learn to talk about what peace is and isn’t in their own lives, then look for the peaceful place within themselves. They co-create a peace banner expressing that inner peace outwardly and the banner is then sent to a corresponding school in another country. The teaching is reinforced by dancing and music.
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Kevin and Tajali tell Doug that peace comes from the heart, not from the mind. Teaching peace to children is therefore about teaching them to be in touch and aware of their feelings and emotions. When they learn that they are ok when they experience different feelings, they learn that being peaceful is safe. Doug asks about the teachers. Tajali explains that a large part of the work is training the teachers to be real with themselves and with the children. Kevin points out that in change environments, finding the few champions of the idea is the fastest way to move an organization. They look for the four or five teachers in a school that understand and get the importance of teaching peace. Those teachers then bring the rest of the school along as others see the results.
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The Children’s Global Peace Project operates off of the Universal Dances of Peace and has been able to penetrate into classrooms around the world very quickly. The latest classroom project is in a small Brazilian village and the curriculum has been taught in Uganda, Italy, England, and India, and many other countries. People can become involved in the project by going to the website and signing on as volunteers or providing financial support.
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