Peace Studies in Humanities: New Perspectives on Old Curricula

Room: Arkansas

presented by Nathaniel L. Mills, Director of Peace Education, Coeus International School

Unless we actively teach our children peace, are they at risk of learning violence? Through interactive inquiry-based discussion, Coeus International School's Director of Peace Education will introduce participants to the invaluable role peace education can play in educating for our shared future. Participants will learn how studying the people, perspectives and pedagogy of peace can create cultural bridges in diverse communities. Coeus will share its efforts to establish an innovative Peace Studies curriculum at the MYP level, as an integral part of its MYP humanities program and a pre-cursor to a Peace Studies subject at the Diploma Programme levels.

Nathaniel L. Mills, Director of Peace Education, Coeus International School
Nathaniel L. Mills, J.D., is the Director of Peace Education at Coeus International School in Washington, District of Columbia. Collaborating with the Center for Teaching Peace, he also leads nonviolence classes at Georgetown University Law Center, American University, and the Washington Center for Internships. Nathaniel was a co-founder of Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School, the nation's first law-related public charter school and the first public charter high school in Washington, District of Columbia's Ward 8. A three-time Olympic athlete, Nathaniel also serves as Coeus' Director of Athletics, where he is establishing an Olympism-based IB physical education curriculum.