Last night on C-SPAN's Q & A, I listened to Brian Lamb interview Colman McCarthy, Founder & Director of the Center for Teaching Peace (4501 Vn Ness St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20016). Having read McCarthy's I’d Rather Teach Peace (2002) earlier this year, I found the interview stunningly provocative and wonderfully informative. If you wish to see, read, or listen to the interview, it's available in the these formats: online video, transcript, DVD, and soon by podcast.

Isamuch as several of us are interested in doing peace studies this fall and are looking for some kind of syllabus and/or foundational text, we should take a look at Solutions to Violence, an eight session class developed by Colman McCarthy. It uses classics in peace and justice literature to teach peacemaking. This course may well suit our needs.