International Mud Day Celebration

International Mud Day started at the 2009 World Forum event by two women: Gillian McAuliffe from Australia and Bishnu Bhatta from Nepal. Both discussed the challenges faced in their own countries, when thinking about children playing in mud. In Perth, Australia, it is the lack of creating mud due to […]

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May 2019 P.E.A.C.E. News

P.E.A.C.E. News for May 2019 Peace Educators Allied for Children Everywhere P.E.A.C.E. is a project of the Survival Education Fund   First, we would like to thank all of you who replied to our member survey in the April edition of the News. This valuable information will help us to […]

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January 2019 P.E.A.C.E. News

NAEYC Conference Proposals Due February 1st Peace Education Interest Forum Can Help NAEYC has set February 1 as the final date for submission of proposals to present at its Annual Conference in Nashville, TN, November 20-23, 2019. P.E.A.C.E. members should be aware that our friends in the NAEYC Peace Educators […]

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Little Friends for Peace

With NAEYC’s national conference in Washington, DC, this year, we are excited to share information about a local organization that has been teaching peace in Mt. Rainier, Maryland, for decades. Check them out at http://www.lffp.org/ Here’s a quote from their About Us page: Little Friends for Peace Mission To counter violence […]

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September 2018 P.E.A.C.E. News

Raising Awareness on Play’s Importance    Two recent developments focused public attention on the importance of child-initiated play in children’s overall development and success in life, as well as the negative impact of play deprivation on our country’s prospects as a civil society practicing democracy. The first of these was […]

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August 2018 P.E.A.C.E. News

Action Alerts! Re-Unite Immigrant Families!     There still are well over 800 children who were torn away from their undocumented families recently and have been put in detention all over the U.S., with no push by the Government to get them back together again.  The Government needs to compensate […]

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