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Joel Rothman
Youth PeaceBuilder 2009
"I am currently a senior at North Eugene High School. Although I grew up with a pretty ordinary American lifestyle in Eugene, after two mission trips to Mexico to build housing for the poor, and a travel to Vietnam on an educational trip with International High School my life has been forever changed."
Now, with this new increased awareness, and with a number of events that have taken place at my school, I felt it was necessary to take action against the injustices taking place in the world and my own hometown. I had a few conversations with some teachers, and with the help of two dedicated friends Thomas and Laura, we created the Social Justice Club. Our group's aim was to not only educate ourselves about injustices-- where they take place and how we can stop them-- but, also learn about who we truly are. I had to place myself in the shoes of those who suffered from social injustices. In the name of justice, and all that is good, I could not stand by and let these terrible things happen. It was a call for me and many others to action. And we will continue to act."
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Minalee Saks
PeaceBuilder 2009
Minalee Saks is a founder and Executive Director of Birth To Three. She helped develop many of Birth To Three's programs and is the primary author of the make Parenting A Pleasure and Parenting Now! curricula. Minalee has been an advocate for partenting programs and child abuse prevention, helping to create the Children's Trust Fund in Oregon. She also developed and conducted traingings for Make Parenting a Pleasure in Kiev, Ukraine for families affected by HIV and also at risk for child abandonment, abuse and neglect. This training and curriculum have become the "standard of practice" for parent education now taught in 5 regions.
Minalee recieved her MS degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin at Madison where she was a Teachers Corps Intern working with Native American children and their families in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. After moving to Oregon she taught elementary school. Minalee has two sons who continually remind her of the pleasures and challenges of parenting, and her experiances as a grandmother add depth, perspective and delight to her understanding of child rearing.
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Peace Village
Organizational PeaceBuilder
Peace Village is an educational organization which offeres curriculum, training and formal cources in peace education, concrete skills in nonviolence and mulicultural understanding. It begain in 1996 as an experiment in peace education for children.
Peace Village promotes the practice of nonviolence, the value of seeing oneself in one another, and the importance of being a peaceful presence. The organization emphasizes multi-cultural appreciation and the message of peace in each of the world's religious traditions. Their goal is an ever widening village in which mutual respect prevails, and conflicts are resolved through patient negotiation.
Today, there are nine Peace Village summer day-camps in five states, and the initial experiment has grown to include after-school programs for elementary students (Peace Club) and teens (Peace Out), a PV Charter High School in Eugene, Oregon, and and Adult Workshop Program.
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