preview

Peace House Research Paper

Decent Essays

Peace House was started by two families who purchased houses right next to each other because they wanted to create a communal living space. During the school year they have an after school program where they provide a space for the children to do homework, and volunteers are there to help and encourage the kids. During the summer they have a day camp where there are activities like crafts, games, and cooking. These programs not only allow kids to participate in fun activities, but it also allows the family to know that their children are in good hands. As described on their website, “The point of Peace House is this: We believe that everyone deserves a world that is peaceful, caring and just. We also believe that this peaceful world will never come about with a lot of concerted effort. People need to speak out for peace and justice wherever they can, and they need to work to create peace and justice in their own neighborhood. Our way of doing that has been to build a place where the children of our neighborhood can come to …show more content…

Social ecology casts away the idea that we are more important than nature and the idea that nature is more important than us, and instead it recognizes the relations we have between humans and nature, as well as the relations we have among ourselves. As humans, we have characteristics that differentiate us from nature and animals, like social interactions and communities and the ability to understand the interactions between them. Social ecology rejects the notion of a hierarchy of any form, and recognizes that before we can solve ecological issues, we must solve the social issues that we face as a result of institutionalized hierarchies. And so we must work together to solve these social issues, and we must be careful while implementing new social structures so that we don’t create new hierarchies that merely replace the old ones, we must rid ourselves from hierarchies all

Get Access