A Peacemaking Curriculum
 John Muhanji is Africa Ministries Director for Friends United Meeting. John had the original vision for the curriculum project and shared that vision with others. He served on the Friends Peacemaking teams which helped reconcile those in the Displaced Persons Camps with their communities. He oversees the missions work in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. |
 Jack Alwena is the Kenya Coordinator for Peace in a Community. He is the Headmaster of Kigama Primary School in Vokoli Yearly Meeting. Jack helped with the training workshops in the summer of 2009 Charlotte Stangeland is Assistant Professor in the Education Division at William Penn University. Before coming to Penn, she taught elementary school for sixteen years, Her role was special education teacher and school counselor. As a school counselor she taught peacemaking skills and character education to kindergarten through 5th grade. |
 A Steering Committee was chosen with head teachers and teachers from schools representing each of the Yearly Meetings. This committee had three subcommittees. Each subcommittee focused on one class (Standard 2, 4, or 7). These head teachers will pilot the lessons for these first three standards in 2011-2012.(Click on the image for a Slide Show of the Steering Committee at work.) |
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 Mary Glenn Hadley is a graduate of Iowa Methodist School of Nursing and received her BSN degree from the University of Iowa. She served many years as a missionary in Kenya working in Friends Hospital at Kaimosi. She also developed the Theological Education by Extension (TEE) program which was incorporated into the Friends Bible Institute for pastoral training. In 1985, she went to Ethiopia as a member of a medical team to work with victims of famine and hunger. She resides in Indianola, Iowa. |
 Marlene Pedigo is Co-superintendent of Western Yearly Meeting in Indiana. She and her husband, Steve, were founders and pastors of Fellowship of Friends in Chicago's Cabrini-Green Public Housing Development for thirty years. They learned firsthand about peace making in a community where violence was all too common. Marlene taught peace-making skills to children in an after school program in the community. She has an M.Div.and D.Min.from McCormick Theological Seminary. |
 Dana Oswald is assistant professor of Education at William Penn University. She has helped with editing and with the Steering Committee Workshops and training. Dana is married to Corey Oswald and mother of two children, Isaac and Reese. |