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A Peacebuilding Approach to Teaching About Extremism, Huffington Post, 12/2/15

The 10th Intl. Conference on Conflict Resolution Education, “Building Stronger Communities through Peace, Justice and Security,” June 8 – 13, 2016, Columbus, OH

By David J. Smith, November 30, 2015 Call for proposals due December 4th! Proposal form available at www.CREducation.org/cre/goto/creconf Hosted by The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (www.gppac.net) and The Ohio State University (Mershon Center for International Security Studies – Peace Studies Program, Center for Slavic and Eastern European Studies, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, andContinueContinue reading “The 10th Intl. Conference on Conflict Resolution Education, “Building Stronger Communities through Peace, Justice and Security,” June 8 – 13, 2016, Columbus, OH”

A Visit from Westboro Baptist Church and a Learning Opportunity

By David J. Smith, November 11, 2015 Yesterday, November 10, my daughter’s high school, Rockville High School in Montgomery County, MD, was visited by Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). Since the early 1990s this Topeka, KS based fundamentalist group has focused on protests at schools and military funerals. Their message is anti-soldier, anti-gay, and anti-other faiths. The Southern PovertyContinueContinue reading “A Visit from Westboro Baptist Church and a Learning Opportunity”