School for Peace

Work begins.

The School for Peace: Peace College is a relatively new initiative of NSWAS. While the School for Peace (SFP) has been running programs for over a decade, Peace College is literally just starting. The hope is to build upon a courses offered by visiting scholars with the hope of eventually creating an masters program at the College, an M.A in Peace. Pretty cool eh? 


This is where I'll be working.

I've been told that it gets mighty hot. At least with UNICEF last year the office had air conditioning. No such luck with my new office I'm afraid. 


I'll be working closely with the schools directors, researching, some clerical office work, proofreading English documents and web-posts, and just generally doing assignments as they come to me.  I think my new colleagues were anticipating that I would be bouncing and waiting for things to do. They all laughed during lunch about how keen I was and how sometimes they might not have things for me to do.


I'll also have the opportunity to participate in work shops, do interviews of participants and participate in some discussions when youth groups arrive to do a program or an encounter! "Cool!"


The School for Peace offices are right next to the kindergarten. Everyday I get up, wash, eat and brush, and walk up the hill towards the offices with the kids from the village, there parents and the other daycare kids who come in from the surrounding areas. All day we are submerged in the sounds of kids playing, screaming, laughing. I grin as the tune of "Hot Crossed Buns" and "Miss Susie" in broken english and a mix of Hebrew and Arabic rhymes come hurdling boisterously over the wall. It's refreshing and often times hilarious.