About Us
History
Peace Village was created in 1996 to supply this education by using concrete, proven methods of teaching young people by bringing skilled educators and community leaders together to do so. Initially begun as a summer day camp on the Oregon coast, it highlighted a curriculum designed to offer students practical skills of conflict resolution, media literacy and nutrition education, coupled with more abstract ways to gain multicultural awareness, and to understand and respect their own bodies. While the curriculum is extensive, in essence, it focuses on three primary themes:
- Community service education
- Awareness of the sources of peace and violence, both in others and in ourselves
- Respect for diversity, including cultural, spiritual and environmental.
The curriculum addresses every source of the conflict and agitation that lead ultimately to violence, and offers many ways of confronting that violence in the day to day. Moreover, the curriculum focuses on diverse community learning (our programs host teachers and students from Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, and Native American backgrounds to name but a few), and offers students a comprehensive view of the messages and practice of peace from a variety of world traditions, both spiritual and secular.
Mission
Peace Village creates educational settings in which individuals can discover their potential for personal peace and peacemaking. We promote the practice of nonviolence, the value of seeing ourselves in one another, and the importance of being a peaceful presence. We emphasize multi-cultural appreciation and the message of peace in each of the world's religious traditions. Our goal is an ever widening village in which mutual respect prevails and conflicts are resolved through patient negotiation.
Staff
Darren Reiley (Executive Director)
Peace Village Inc.
PO Box 2635, Eugene, OR 97405
John Steitz (Outreach Coordinator)
119 Crestview Drive, Barton, PA 19504
Church Office: 215-723-3889
Cell: 484-437-2648
Home: 610-754-0426
Chloe Beard
2075 NW Glisan St. Suite 4
Portland, OR 97209
503-754-8978
Board of Directors
Charles Busch (President)
1845 NE 16th, Lincoln City, OR 97367
541-996-4766
cathey.charles.busch@charter.net
Travis Debacker (Secretary)
NuNaturals, Inc.
2220 West 2nd Ave #1, Eugene, OR 97402
1-800-753-4372
541-683-5268
Ariel Lissman
2250 Patterson St. Apt 232, Eugene, OR 97405
541-852-2029
Sener Otrugman
P.O. Box 51, Lincoln City, OR 97367
541-994-4781
Doug Parker
6255 SW Country Club Dr, Corvallis, OR 97333
541-207-6333
Gordon Payne
103 Coronado Shores, Lincoln City, OR 97367
541-764-5130 (Fax: 541-764-2487)
Elaine Phillips (Acting Treasurer)
1075 W. 18th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402
541-579-4902
Cell: 541-579-4897
Yochanon Russell
3190 W. 14th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402
Home: 541-484-0958
541-225-8909
Paul Smith
4615 SE Main St, Portland, OR, 97215
Home: 503-236-8447
Cell: 503-317-2308
Mike Steele (Honorary Board Member)
Pacific University, English Department, Forest Grove, OR 97116
Office: 503-352-2806
Home: 503-357-9114
