Using a Common Thread Project to Teach About PeacebuildingJennifer Haydel, Political Science, Montgomery CollegeEmail: [email protected]: 240-567-77565 March 2014
In the Shadow of the Banyan at Montgomery College
• “I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so
that you would never be trapped by anything –
your name, your title, the limits of your body, this world’s suffering. …I
could transform myself. I could transcend
boundaries.”• -- Vaddey Ratner
Course Participation
Creating
International Relations General Psychology Environmental Biology Physical Geology Two-Dimensional DesignSociocultural AnthropologyHistory of Modern Asia
Incorporating
• Comparative Politics• Women’s Studies• Speech• Developmental Reading• Multiple History Courses• Multiple Biology Courses
“One seed may bloom, or fallen with the snow.
With others make a garden rise from clay.
Some find a stronger self in which to grow.”--Melissa Williamson
Source:Alliance for Peacebuilding