Learning Peace? Creating a Class on Creating Community

This article describes the creation and implementation of a service-learning college course. "Nonviolence, Peace and Community," which was a community response to the challenge of teaching peace. Rather than bringing a course to the community, the facilitators tried to make the course from the community. Techniques used were inclusive community participation, collaborative self-directed learning, a Socratic approach to group discussion, and an open planning process. Outcomes included increased skills of community building and greater civic responsibility. (author)