Cheryl Duckworth, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) in NSU’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), presented at the Comparative and International Education Society 2015 Conference held in Washington, D.C. Duckworth’s presentation was titled: “Donors, Kids and Classrooms: What happens when elites fund peace education.” The conference theme was Ubuntu! Imagining a Humanist Education Globally.
Duckworth is the faculty facilitator for the Peace and Conflict Education Working Group at SHSS. The group seeks to equip and empower schools worldwide to be examples and builders of peace, and to promote activities and curriculum that can help extend peace into the local communities.