Using a Common Thread Project to Teach About PeacebuildingJennifer Haydel, Political Science, Montgomery CollegeEmail: jennifer.haydel@montgomerycollege.eduPhone: 240-567-77565 March 2014

In the Shadow of the Banyan at Montgomery College

• “I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so

that you would never be trapped by anything –

your name, your title, the limits of your body, this world’s suffering. …I

could transform myself. I could transcend

boundaries.”• -- Vaddey Ratner

Course Participation

Creating

International Relations General Psychology Environmental Biology Physical Geology Two-Dimensional DesignSociocultural AnthropologyHistory of Modern Asia

Incorporating

• Comparative Politics• Women’s Studies• Speech• Developmental Reading• Multiple History Courses• Multiple Biology Courses

“One seed may bloom, or fallen with the snow.

With others make a garden rise from clay.

Some find a stronger self in which to grow.”--Melissa Williamson

Source:Alliance for Peacebuilding