Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 11 Digital Archive Stories Description An account of the resource This collection is the bulk of the archive, representing the reactions and experiences of thousands of individuals beginning in 2002. 911DA Story 911DA Story: Story Tell us about what you did, saw, or heard on September 11th. Feel free to write as much or as little as you like. Tell us your story: Introduction to the Peace Project book entitled "The Road to Peace, the Road Less Taken." The peace project became a part of my syllabus for the Fundamentals of Design class after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This visual book is a project exploring peace and peacemakers. I introduced the project by asking my students to define a peacemaker. The class determined that a peacemaker is an active maker of peace in a conflict situation, not simply a peaceful person. A peacemaker uses and promotes non-violent means in the struggle to resolve conflict or fight oppression. Peacemakers are not always political figures. Artists may be peacemakers through the production of visual art, writing, music or performance that promotes peace or exposes oppression. With this definition, we constructed a list of possible peacemakers and each student researched two candidates. The class members practiced working collaboratively and making decisions by consensus throughout this project. During a ?teach-in,? students reported on their candidates and the group approved those that fit our definition of a peacemaker. Students then gathered photographic portraits, biographical information, quotes, and landscape photographs for each peacemaker. The visual book began as a watercolor mural keeping in mind that it would be folded into a Japanese Fold-Out book later. The peacemakers are ordered by geography, allowing for huge leaps between countries and continents, and linked by ?the road to peace? that runs through each landscape. The background paintings represent the site of the peacemakers? work. Students found it especially challenging to blend one landscape into another and coordinate their plans with the students on either side. The motto for this project quickly became ?we can not achieve peace without learning to work together.? Each student was responsible for two peacemakers, but students also worked on each other?s backgrounds when needed. Biographies for each peacemaker aim to provide some background information on the conflict they addressed and the non-violent means they used. Many of our peacemakers received the Nobel Peace Prize. Too many of them were assassinated for their views. Through this project I hope the class members, and the viewers of this book, learned about collaboration, non-violent conflict resolution, contemporary peacemakers and the positive use of propaganda. Peace is not obvious. Peace must be taught, and learned. Jeanette May Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource story127.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. story Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-03-04 IP Address The IP address of the device used to submit the item. 209.50.248.216 Annotation Annotations to this item. Peace Students/Teachers DOMESTIC Feature