About Us
Mission
Peace Village Inc. is a national organization which develops curriculum and creates settings inn which nonviolence is taught to children and adults. We emphasize multi-cultural, inter-faith, inter-generational appreciation and the shared depth of our humanity. We envision an ever widening village in which conflicts are resolved through mutual respect and patient negotiation.
History
Peace Village was created in 1996 to supply this education by using concrete, proven methods of teaching young people by bringing skilled educators and community leaders together to do so. Initially begun as a summer day camp on the Oregon coast, it highlighted a curriculum designed to offer students practical skills of conflict resolution, media literacy and nutrition education, coupled with more abstract ways to gain multicultural awareness, and to understand and respect their own bodies. While the curriculum is extensive, in essence, it focuses on three primary themes:
- Community service education
- Awareness of the sources of peace and violence, both in others and in ourselves
- Respect for diversity, including cultural, spiritual and environmental.
The curriculum addresses every source of the conflict and agitation that lead ultimately to violence, and offers many ways of confronting that violence in the day to day. Moreover, the curriculum focuses on diverse community learning (our programs host teachers and students from Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, and Native American backgrounds to name but a few), and offers students a comprehensive view of the messages and practice of peace from a variety of world traditions, both spiritual and secular..
Staff
Darren Reiley (Executive Director)
541-337-6917
Office: Peace Village Inc.
PO Box 2635, Eugene, OR 97405
John Steitz (Outreach Coordinator)
Barton, PA
215-723-3889
Chloe Beard
Portland, OR
503-754-8978
Board of Directors
Charles Busch (President)
Lincoln City, Oregon
541-996-4766
cathey.charles.busch@charter.net
Travis Debacker (Secretary)
Eugene, OR
541-683-5268
Sierra Gault
Eugene, OR
541-606-2045
Ariel Lissman
Eugene, OR
541-852-2029
Frances Menlove
Depoe Bay, OR
541-765-2688
Sener Otrugman
Lincoln City, OR
541-994-4781
Doug Parker
Corvallis, OR
541-207-6333
Gordon Payne
Lincoln City, OR
541-764-5130
Elaine Phillips (Acting Treasurer)
Eugene, OR
541-579-4902
Yochanon Russell
Eugene, OR
541-484-0958
Paul Smith
Portland, OR
503-236-8447
Mike Steele (Honorary Board Member)
Forest Grove, OR
503-352-2806
