“It can be a small thing — help somebody, offer a kind word here and there,” he said. Count me among those who’d like to believe that peace is possible, but reality keeps getting in the way. Just an anonymous tip — a small thing, as McCarthy put it, that could help bring justice, a prerequisite for peace. Two years later, he and his wife, Mavourneen, co-founded the Center for Teaching Peace, a D.C.-based nonprofit that works with schools to create peace studies programs. To McCarthy, such doubts, however fleeting, just make the case for more peace studies in schools.

Source: Washington Post December 22, 2020 23:50 UTC