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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="042d4c00dduajq.gif"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B>          What's new at PSEC:</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>                               </div> <div> <I><B>Join us for our upcoming professional development workshop for Educators</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News and Events"><U><B>One Year after 9/11: </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News and Events"><U><B>Teaching in Challenging Times</B></U></A></div> <div> October 23, 2002</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>More about PSEC members</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mission"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Who we are"><U>Who we are</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What we offer schools"><U>What we offer schools</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our areas of expertise"><U>Our areas of expertise</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News and Events"><U>News and Events</U></A>   |   <B>More about PSEC members</B>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="lotika_shaunik_paintal"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Lotika Shaunik Paintal</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Post September 11 Education Consortium</B></U></A></div> <div> A<I>s</I> founder and director, <I>Lotika S. Paintal</I> is responsible for the administration and oversight of the Post September 11 Education Consortium. She has been actively involved in all aspects of its start-up: vision, strategy, business development, fund-raising and service provision. </div> <div> Ms. Paintal brings extensive education, research and training experience in Intercultural Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention to the Consortium. She has conducted national workshops and written articles on a comprehensive approach to school-based violence prevention. Before founding the consortium she was a Research Associate and Trainer at the Education Development Center, Newton MA, where she provided training and coordinated technical assistance and distance learning for the US Department of Education sponsored 'National Training Center for Middle School Safety and Drug Prevention Coordinators'</div> <div> Ms. Paintal has a EdM with a focus on Conflict Resolution from Harvard University, a MA, Intercultural Relations, from Lesley University, a BS in Molecular Biology from the Sorbonne-France, and a BS from Delhi University, India. She is co-founder of the inter-area research and study group on conflict resolution at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, created to generate faculty, student and practitioner dialogue on issues of conflict reduction and violence prevention in schools. She is also a board member of the Lexington Education Foundation.</div> <div>  Ms Paintal's interest lies in providing education and skills to help young people become competent world-citizens. Her desire to promote greater understanding and dialogue between cultures stems from her personal experiences growing up in India and living in Europe and Asia before coming to the US.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="ted_johnson"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Ted Johnson</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cmgroup.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cmgroup.org/"><U><B>Conflict Management Group</B></U></A><A HREF="http://www.cmgroup.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cmgroup.org/"><U> </U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Ted Johnson</I> has conducted negotiation and training workshops with government, community and corporate leaders in the North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has worked as an advisor to the City of Boston, the Boston Public Schools and managed youth and community programs for inner city youth in Boston and Chicago. Mr. Johnson also managed a community dialogue project that facilitated improving race relations in Springfield, MA. He has been a teaching assistant in the Program of Instruction for lawyers at Harvard Law School and was an adjunct faculty member at Lesley College.</div> <bR> <div> The mission of the Conflict Management Group is to help parties manage conflict constructively and to end violent conflict in the world. The conflict Management Group facilitates public dialogue on interfaith and civil rights issues; mentors vulnerable governments on how to negotiate with terrorists and opposition groups; trains negotiators on both sides in interest-based processes; facilitates joint brainstorming sessions with contending parties.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="barbara_petzen"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Barbara Petzen</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/trc.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/trc."><U><B>Outreach Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University </B></U></A><B>(CMES):</B></div> <div> <B>     </B></div> <div> <I>Barbara Petzen </I>is the outreach coordinator and web development specialist at the National Resource Center the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. She is an advanced doctoral candidate and teaches Middle Eastern history, Islam, and women's studies.</div> <bR> <div> The Center for Middle Eastern Studies was founded for the purpose of furthering the study of the Middle East at Harvard University. This mandate has included a primary emphasis on the centuries since the rise of Islam and a concern with the wider Islamic world as well. CMES serves Harvard as the coordinating body and the primary source of additional support for the various academic programs that cover the vast region from Morocco and North Africa to Turkey and Iran. CMES faculty lecture widely and often, both in academic and public settings, in an ongoing effort to deepen scholarly understanding of the Middle Eastern and Islamic worlds and to educate better our own citizens about them. The Teaching Resource Center at CMES provides specific outreach programs for schools and colleges without substantial resources in area studies, and thus, also serves an important informational function for a wider public</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="hugh_o_doherty"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Hugh O'Doherty</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/leadership/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/leadership/"><U><B>Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Hugh O'Doherty</I> is Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School. Formerly, he served as Director of the Ireland-U.S. Public Leadership Program and the College Park Scholars Program in Public Leadership at the Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland. His research interests include the evaluation of conflict resolution programs, curriculum programs in prejudice reduction, and characteristics of intractable conflict. For four years O'Doherty was Program Director at the Glencree Center for Peace and Reconciliation, which aimed to create an environment where Irish Catholics and Protestants could confront the issues that divide them. From 1995-98, he directed the Northern Ireland Inter-Group Relations Project, an initiative bringing together fourteen political and community leaders in Ireland to establish protocols for political dialogue. </div> <bR> <div> The Center for Public Leadership is committed to advancing the intellectual frontiers of the burgeoning field of Leadership Studies, setting new standards of excellence in the practice and teaching of leadership, and preparing new generations of public leaders.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="sam_diener_and_susan_d__allen"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Sam Diener and Susan D. Allen</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.esrnational.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.esrnational.org/"><U><B>Educators for Social Responsibility </B></U></A><B>(ESR)</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>Sam Diener</I> is a nonviolent educator, trainer, and activist. As an educator, I have taught History, English, Computers, and Peace Studies in alternative inner-city public high schools in Washington, D.C. and Oakland, CA, and spent the last three years as the conflict intervention coordinator at the middle school in Salem, MA (check out www.shore.net/~cms/intropeace.htm). As a nonviolence trainer, I conduct nonviolent action trainings, facilitator trainings, trainings for male anti-sexist activists, and trainings for trainers. As an activist, I have served on the National Committee of the War Resisters League for the last 16 years, worked as the Military Out of Our Schools coordinator and GI Rights Advocate on the staff of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (www.objector.org), and organized and engaged in numerous demonstrations and nonviolent direct actions for a more peaceful, just world.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Susan D. Allen</I> has a C.A.G.S. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in Organizational Development, a MEd. in Counseling from Antioch College and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.    Susan has also been an Assistant Dean of Students at MIT and the Dean of Students at Roxbury Community College.  In addition to working as the Director of Programs at ESR, Susan is an adjunct faculty member at both Lesley University and Framingham State College where she teaches classes in Multi cultural/Anti-bias education.</div> <bR> <div> The mission of ESR is to make teaching for social responsibility a core practice in education so that young people develop the convictions and skills to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic, and just world.  ESR is a leading source of innovative curriculum materials and teacher training programs that address conflict resolution, social and emotional learning, character development, and diversity education for preschool through Grade 12 settings.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="adam_strom"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Adam Strom</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.facinghistory.org/facing/fhao2.nsf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.facinghistory.org/facing/fhao"><U><B>Facing History and Ourselves</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> Adam Strom is a Program Associate for Research and Development at Facing History and Ourselves. He is involved in the writing, research and development of new projects including 'A Year Later: Considering the Legacies of September 11th'. Adam also worked with Phyllis Goldstein, researching and writing a study guide for the award winning documentary Family Name, which was the kickoff film for Public Television's Race Initiative. He has presented on the behalf of Facing History at several national conferences including The Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum. Prior to joining the Boston Program staff in the summer of 1998, he was a Program Associate in Facing History and Ourselves New York office.</div> <bR> <div> The Mission of Facing History and ourselves is </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To engage students of diverse backgrounds in citizenship education Civic education encourages the skills, promotes the values, and fosters the ideals needed to sustain a democratic society. Teaching is a craft. Facing History believes that the intellectual demands of a discipline, the needs of a community, and the capacity of students to be moral philosophers inform good teaching.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To teach that the study of history is a moral enterprise</div> <div> By studying the historical development and the legacies of the Holocaust and other instances of collective violence students learn to combat prejudice with compassion, indifference with ethical participation, myth and misinformation with knowledge.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To provide interdisciplinary programs, resource materials, and speakers for middle and high school educators to relate past to issues in the world today</div> <div> Because no child or classroom exists in isolation, Facing History involves the community: Parents, teachers, police officers, community activists and other citizens. Each is a potential educator and role model.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="kathleen_ennis"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Kathleen Ennis</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.primarysource.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.primarysource.org/"><U><B>Primary Source</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Kathleen Ennis</I> is the executive director of Primary Source, a non-profit center for the interdisciplinary study of history and the humanities. </div> <bR> <div> The mission of Primary Source is to provide content rich professional development programming that is historically accurate, culturally inclusive and explicitly concerned with racism and other forms of discrimination.  Programs focus on the study of peoples and cultures, which have been misrepresented or ignored in K-12 curricula.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="laura_chasin_and_corky_becker"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Laura Chasin and Corky Becker</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.publicconversations.org/pcp/index.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.publicconversations.org/pcp/i"><U><B>Public Conversations Project</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Laura Chasin</I>, M.S.W. is the director and founder of the Public Conversations Project. She is a licensed clinical social worker, family therapist and psychodramatist, and has worked in the field of dialogue for 15 years. She led leaders of the pro life and pro-choice groups in Massachusetts in a 6-year conversation about abortion, the results of which were published in the Globe last year. Recent work includes working internationally and nationally with archbishops and bishops on the question of homosexuality in the Episcopal Church.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Corky Becker</I>, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, and marriage and family therapist. She has been on the faculty of the Family Institute of Cambridge for 15 years. She was a program director of the Intensive Program in Family Therapy for 8 years. She has been a founding member and associate of the Public Conversations Project, where she is involved in training and dialogue facilitation. She has served on the board of the Family Institute and the Public Conversations Project. She is a consultant to the Harvard Law School Project on Negotiation.</div> <bR> <div> The mission of the Public Conversations Project is to foster a more inclusive, empathic and collaborative society by promoting constructive conversations and relationships among those who have differing values, world view, and positions related to divisive public issues. Some highlights of the recent work of the Public Conversations Project include: convening and facilitating dialogue with 1.the Bishops and Archbishops of the Episcopal Church internationally and nationally about homosexuality in the church, 2.  Leaders of the pro-life and pro-choice organizations in Massachusetts, 3.interfaith groups including Jewish and Muslim congregation members. There is a training program, including the Power of Dialogue Workshop. The project carefully documents and publishes articles about its work. All of the articles and materials can be found on the website.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="michael_nakkula_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Michael Nakkula</B> </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.gse.harvard.edu/%7Erp/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gse.harvard.edu/%7Erp/"><U><B>Risk and Prevention Area, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> Michel Nakkula teaches courses on adolescent development and helps to coordinate the Risk and Prevention Program, a master's specialization within the Human Development and Psychology area of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Trained as a cross-cultural counselor and psychotherapist, Nakkula studies the environmental and psychosocial obstacles that place urban middle and high school students at risk for academic failure, underachievement, and general educational alienation, and the strengths that allow them to pursue options for growth. He is the cofounder of several prevention programs including Project IF: Inventing the Future, a collaborative partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital and the local business community. Project IF places Harvard students in mentoring, tutoring, and counseling relationships with youth in public schools and subsidized housing developments. Phenomenology and hermeneutics, theories and methods of uncovering and interpreting phenomena/data using interpretive research methods, are the guiding threads that organize his work. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="joshua_n__weiss"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Joshua N. Weiss</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.pon.harvard.edu/research/projects/ppw.php3" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.pon.harvard.edu/research/proj"><U><B>Global Negotiation Project</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Joshua N. Weiss</I>, Associate Director has been a trainer and teacher of negotiation for the last 5 years while completing a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution.  He has worked privately and publicly as a mediator in both the domestic and international context.</div> <bR> <div> The mission of the Global Negotiation Project is to understand how destructive conflicts can be transformed into constructive negotiations and war turned into peace. The Global Negotiation Project (formerly the Project on Preventing War) is one of the original research projects of the Program on Negotiation. For over 16 years, the Project has analyzed conflicts, designed negotiation processes to address them, and applied these processes in "real-life" settings ranging from ethnic conflicts in the former Soviet Union to business and interpersonal disputes. The project engages in the research, teaching and practice of negotiations that are global and international in scope. Our work is theoretical, for example, work on the Third Side, and practical, for example the creation of an e-Parliament.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="david_fairman_and_stacie_nicole_smith"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>David Fairman and Stacie Nicole Smith</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.workablepeace.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.workablepeace.org/"><U><B>Consensus Building Institute, Workable Peace Project</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>David Fairman</I> is a Vice President at the Consensus Building Institute. He specializes in the development of training and educational programs on inter-group conflict, environment and development issues, designed for schools, public and non-profit organizations. In addition to co-directing the Workable Peace Project, Dr. Fairman mediates public disputes on environment and land use, economic development plans and projects, and group conflicts at the community level. </div> <bR> <div> <I>Stacie Nicole Smith</I> directs the Workable Peace project at the Consensus Building Institute. Prior to working at CBI, Ms. Smith taught integrated English and Social Studies in an alternative public school in New York City, where she integrated issues of group identity, inter-group conflict, human rights and social justice. Ms. Smith has a life-long commitment to progressive and student-centered education, especially linking the classroom to students' own lives. She has extensive experience in developing social studies curriculum materials for adolescents at a wide range of academic ability levels. </div> <bR> <div>  Workable Peace is an innovative high school humanities curriculum and professional development project for teachers and students. Using new teaching materials and strategies, Workable Peace integrates the study of inter-group conflict and the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and perspective-taking skills into social studies and humanities courses. It provides academically rigorous training and tools for teaching the major themes and key events of history in ways that enliven the imagination, awaken moral reasoning, and impart social and civic skills that students can use throughout their lives. Workable Peace is a response to the needs of teachers, teenagers and schools in communities across the country. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="deborah_donahue_keegan"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#660033" FACE="Arial" ><B>Deborah Donahue-Keegan</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.gse.harvard.edu/%7Ecresg/groupdesc.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gse.harvard.edu/%7Ecresg/grou"><U><B>The Conflict Resolution Education Study Group</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Deborah Donahue-Keegan</I> is an advanced doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of education. Her dissertation research focuses on high school History/Social Studies experiences in teaching conflict and conflict resolution.  She has taught at the high school level for eight years, and has fulfilled all requirements for principal certification. Through her experiences as a classroom teacher, a university supervisor for teacher certification candidates, and as a principal intern, she has developed a deep commitment to contribute to the furthering of professional development support for teachers and administrators in the realm of social and emotional learning in general and the pedagogy of conflict resolution in particular.</div> <bR> <div> The Conflict Resolution Education Study Group (CRESG) consists of HGSE students, faculty, alumni, and community members committed to understanding inter-group relations and constructive approaches to conflict within the framework of schools.  Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the mission of CRESG has shifted to include a focus on the myriad, complex issues vis-à-vis conflict that have emerged and/or taken on new shape in schools. A number of the group's members are eager to contribute to K-12 school communities' efforts to respond these issues.  Because CRESG members have diverse backgrounds, varying definitions of, perspectives on, and experiences with conflict resolution within the framework of schools, our group offers schools a range in terms of resources among its doctoral and master's student members, as well as its faculty and community members.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>