If peacemaking is teachable, why are school so reluctant to offer classes in peace studies? By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh, and you're listening to These Days on KPBS. Teaching kids about peace is not usually part of a school curriculum. And yet, one of the major problems in ...

With more than two dozen armed conflicts going on in the world today (a list of them is updated by Uppsala University in Oslo, Norway), peace seems more elusive than ever. Two new books might help ...

McCarthy’s rationale for teaching students about peace, which he’s been doing at Washington-area high schools, universities, and other educational organizations for the past 21 years, is simple and ...

When my wife and I began teaching 4th grade at P.S. 192 in West Harlem, we realized that something was missing from our behavior management systems. We had the table points, the color chart, the ...

Colman McCarthy, who died on Feb. 27 at the age of 87, had a well-deserved reputation for seeking out the underdogs in ...

was to link teenagers with Nobel Peace Prize laureates who could serve as living, breathing examples of ways to work toward conflict resolution and peace. But over the years the 12 laureates who run ...

When it comes to answering tough questions like “How do we supply electricity to a village without exacerbating tensions with their neighbors?” “How can installing a water system in a disputed ...