Peace, Conflict and Community

Campbell College
We will study a variety of texts and engage in discussion and other activities to seek answers to the following questions: What does "peace" mean?  How might we, even in our everyday lives, help to create peaceful communities? What is our responsibility as individuals for striving toward this goal? What are our responsibilities to others? Is conflict necessarily bad? How do we constructively address conflicts within communities, and within ourselves?  We will read and write about peace, non-violence, compassion, community-building, and conflict transformation. Experiential components of our course will have us practicing mindfulness and engaging in other contemplative exercises as means for achieving focus, self-awareness, and connection with others. This course fulfills the FYP general education requirement.