Bringing it All Together

Vocational

• These perspectives and skills should relate to your employable future, but how?
• Yours is the era of 2-3 different jobs/careers
• So which one is your “contribution to peace” job (how can they all be)?
• Special challenge in the military
• Obedience vs. conscience
• Special opportunities for peacebuilding and peacekeeping
• How to be professional military without falling victim to militarism?

Avocational

• Life as a parent – invaluable
• Life within your community – finding a niche that fits
• Life as a member of an extended family member and a community
• School board work:
  • Funding, supporting teacher training
  • Funding, supporting materials & books that break stereotypes
  • Use school-based conflict resolution approaches to be transformative for other areas of a community
  • Running for the school board
  • Funding a set of “peace” prizes or activities.
  • Globalize & sensitize with the “foreign”

• Volunteer work:

  •  Again, the perspective is an asset, so too is the ability to bring skills
  • Making “public” claims for the need for more peace
    • In the criminal or juvenile justice system
    • The social tension and violence dilemma – especially in teen communities
    • Increasing the capacity of local institutions to create peace
    • Take what the culture gives you