About Us

Mission

Peace Village creates educational settings in which individuals can discover their potential for personal peace and peacemaking.  We promote the practice of nonviolence, the value of seeing ourselves in one another, and the importance of being a peaceful presence.  We emphasize multi-cultural appreciation and the message of peace in each of the world’s religious traditions.  Our goal is an ever widening village in which mutual respect prevails, and conflicts are resolved through patient negotiation. 

Brief History

Peace Village began in 1996, as an experiment in peace education for children.  The first Village was a summer day-camp, ages 6 to 13, in Lincoln City, Oregon.  It was prompted by an episode of violence in a local high school and inspired by the message of peace inherent in each the world’s religious traditions and by Gandhi’s prescription, “If we are to create real peace in this world, it will have to being with the children.”

Our goal was to create a Village of racial, cultural and religious diversity in which children learn to deal with conflict by accessing the reservoir of peace within themselves, employing empathy, and practicing the techniques of nonviolent conflict resolution.

Today, there are nine Peace Village summer day-camps in five states, and our experiment has grown to include after school programs for elementary students (Peace Club) and teens (Peace Out), a PV Charter High School in Eugene, Oregon, and an Adult Workshop Program.

Board of Directors

Charles Busch (secretary)
M.A., M.Div., founder of Peace Village; retired parish minister, United Church of Christ; Merrill Fellow Harvard University; Exec. VP and partner, U.E. Systems, NY; USMCR

Ken McCormack
M.A., retired college and high school educator; writer (published more than 100 articles on nonviolent action and peace studies); Woodrow Wilson Fellow; life-time peace activist; Board Member of Oregon PeaceWorker Foundation

David Maloney (president)
M.Ed., founder and Director of the Many Hands Community, Eugene, Oregon

Philip Gordon Payne
B.S., retired marketing executive General Electric Co.; commercial fisherman; writer; environmental and peace activist; Captain U.S. Army Rangers, Vietnam Veteran

Martha Payne
Juris Doctorate; Of counsel to law firm of Benesch, Friedlander Copland & Aronoff; former Chair of Oregon Cascade Head Music Festival; former Director North Lincoln County Health District                                                   

Darren Reiley (Executive Director)
M.A. (Folklore), M.A. (English), peace educator, founder of PV Charter High School (Eugene, Oregon), founder PV Ruidosa, New Mexico, writer, poet, story teller

Addresses

Main Office: 45 West Broadway, Suite 205, Eugene, OR 97401
                       PO Box 2635, Eugene, OR 97402
                       Darren Reiley, Executive Director
                       541 338 7001    Fax 541 338 7068
                       E-mail: info@peacevillageinc.org

Adult Program and Workshops:
                       1845 NE 16th St., Lincoln City, OR 97367
                       Charles Busch   541 996 4766
                        E-mail: Cathey.charles.busch@charter.net