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Sara Potler
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- Founder & CEO, Move This…
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Dance 4 Peace now Move This World
Started Jan 31 0 Replies 0 Likes
DANCE 4 PEACE NOW CALLED MOVE THIS WORLDNEW BRAND TO REFLECT ORGANIZATION’S GROWING GLOBAL IMPACT (New York, NY— January 31, 2013) Dance 4 Peace, a global nonprofit that uses creative movement to…Continue
Change on the horizon for Dance 4 Peace
Started Jan 30 0 Replies 0 Likes
Change is now for Dance 4 Peace. It is bold, but it more accurately reflects our audacious ambition.http://move-thisworld.blogspot.com/Continue
Lady Gaga & Dance 4 Peace on the revolution against school violence
Started Oct 8, 2012 0 Replies 1 Like
The GUARDIAN in London features Lady Gaga & Dance 4 Peace on the revolution against school violence: http://bit.ly/T5ktls…Continue
Is dance the anti-bullying cure? Washington Post features Dance 4 Peace
Started Sep 13, 2012 0 Replies 1 Like
A young boy sees his parents fight at home. He’s bullied at school, and witnesses another fight on the bus. His parents may not struggle financially, but that’s because they work long hours, leaving…Continue
Tags: resolution, arts, social, entrepreneurship, conflict
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- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- Sara Potler, a life-long dancer and previous professional performer, was a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá, Colombia when she wrote, implemented, and evaluated an innovative peace education, conflict transformation program. In Bogotá, she learned to fuse her passions for international development, peacebuilding, education and dance while authoring and leading the original Move This World curriculum with third graders in Colombian public elementary schools. Today Move This World uses creative movement to address and transform conflict, violence and bullying with over 9,000 individuals across 22 cities on four continents.
Prior to her role as Founder and CEO of Move This World, Sara was the Chief Operating Officer for Atlas Corps, an international exchange for nonprofit leaders around the world. Sara built and maintained partnerships with organizations such as the UN Foundation, Ashoka, Grameen Foundation and Peace Corps. She strategized and successfully executed the winning of $400,000 through microgiving online fundraising campaigns such as America's Giving Challenge, Chase Community Giving via Facebook, and Pepsi Refresh Everything. While at Atlas Corps, she played a lead role in increasing more than seven-fold the size of the program, taking the organizational budget from $300,000 to $1.3 million, expanding to new markets within the U.S. from one program site to five, and expanding the staff from she and the Founder to nine full-time employees.
A graduate of the University of Virginia, Sara is a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum; an American Express Emerging Innovator; a Cordes Fellow with the Opportunity Collaboration; a Peace X Peace 2012 Women, Power, & Peace Award Winner (Generation Peace Award); the only U.S. recipient of the Youth Leader Award by the Inter-American Development Bank Annual Board of Governors Meeting; an Ashoka Activating Empathy Award Winner; a two-time Beyond Sport Award Finalist; a StartingBloc Fellow; a Finalist Nominee Social Entrepreneur/Innovator for the Women's Information Network 18th Annual Young Women of Achievement Award; 1 of 3 Artists Transforming the World by the Arts and Healing Network; a Susan Schiffer Stautberg Leadership Fellow; a Global Semi-Finalist with the International Youth Foundation YouthActionNet; and a Semi-Finalist in the Global Social Venture Competition. She has been featured in Forbes, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Carnegie Council's Policy Innovations, Americans for the Arts, Ashoka, El Tiempo, Unrest Magazine, Rising Pyramid, Whole Living Magazine, Martha Stewart Radio on SiriusXM, and the International Platform on Sport and Peace, among others.
- Please indicate if you're joining PCDN as an individual or organization (please mark the appropriate category)
- international NGO
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- South and Central America and Southeast Asia
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- USA, Colombia, the Philippines, Germany
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Founder & CEO, Move This World
- How many years professional experience do you have ?
- 6-10
- What is your personal or organizational website?
- http://www.facebook.com/movethisworld
- Which Languages do you speak Proficiently? (note we can not list all languages, only some major world languages or ones related to conflict regions)
- Portugese, Spanish
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Conflict Resolution, Culture, Development, Dialogue, Education, Peacekeeping, Social Entreprenuership, Sports for Development, Youth
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Capacity Building, Curriculum Development, Evaluation, Monitoring, Program Administration, Program Design, Program Implemenation, Research, Training
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Peace education, conflict transformation, arts education, social entrepreneurship
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications
- Blair, R. (2008) In war-torn Colombia, violence prevention begins with the 2nd graders. Educational Leaderships, 66,1, 32-36
Bustamante, A. (2008) Kit adolescentes para el manejo y la prevención de la intimidación escolar. Bogotá: RedPapaz – Universidad de los Andes.
Chaux, E. (2009). Citizenship competencies in the midst of a violent political conflict: The Colombian educational response. Harvard Educational Review, 79, 84-93.
Chaux, E. (2007). Aulas en Paz: A multi-component program for the promotion of peaceful relationships and citizenship competencies. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 25, 79-86.
Chaux, E., Bustamante, A., Castellanos, M., Jiménez, M. & Mejía, M.I. (2007). KitPapaz para el Manejo de la Intimidación Escolar. Bogotá: RedPapaz. Universidad de los Andes.
Chaux, E., Bustamante, A., Castellanos, M., Jiménez, M., Nieto, A.M., Rodríguez, G.I., Blair, R., Molano, A., Ramos, C., & Velásquez, A.M. (2008). Aulas en Paz: Estrategias pedagógicas. Revista Interamericana de Educación para la Democracia, 1, 2, 123-145.
Chaux, E., Lleras, J. & Velásquez, A.M. (Eds.) (2004). Competencias ciudadanas: de los estándares al aula. Una propuesta integral para todas las áreas académicas. Bogotá: Ministerio de Educación Nacional. Universidad de los Andes.
Chaux, E., Peña, A., Arango, A., Castellanos, M., Heinsohn, R., Jiménez, M., Molano A. & Nieto, A.M. (en prensa). Empoderamiento para la convivencia: Una experiencia de motivación y formación docente en competencias ciudadanas. En: G.I. Rodríguez (Ed.). Formación de docentes para la educación en valores y ciudadanía. Bogotá: Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos. Editorial Santa María.
Jimenez, M., Chaux, E., Andrade, D. & Bustamante, A. (2008) Socio-emotional competencies in violent contexts: Evaluation of the multicomponent program Aulas en Paz (Classrooms in peace). "International Society for Research on Aggression." Budapest, Hungry.
Laaksonen, Annamari. (2011) D'Art report 41: Creative Partnerships: Intersections between the arts, culture and other sectors: A discussion paper prepared for the 5th World Summit on Arts & Culture Melbourne, 3-6 October, 2011.
Ramos, C., Nieto, A. & Chaux, E. (2007) Aulas en Paz: resultados preliminares de un programa multi-componente. Revista Interamericana de Educación para la Democracia, 1, 1, 36-56.
Ruiz-Silva, A. & Chaux, E. (2005). La formación de competencias ciudadanas. Bogotá:Asociación Colombiana de Facultades de Educación ASCOFADE.
Check out Dance 4 Peace, an innovative global curriculum that uses dance to inspire youth to be leaders and peacemakers in their communities:
http://www.dance4peace.org
http://www.dance4peace.org
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Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 11:14pm on January 31, 2013,
Alpha koroma said… - Thanks their for your wonderful deeds.
- At 2:26am on November 8, 2011,
Ihsan ur Rahman said…
- At 1:34am on September 9, 2011,
Paudyal, Dhruba P. said… Dear Ms Sara
Welcome and thanks for your kind acceptance for peacebuilding friendship. I hope I'll enjoy your dance4 peace program in the days to come.
- At 12:53pm on April 20, 2011,
shyam tosawad said… - Dear friend
"Vasudev kutukbkam" entire world is a family.This is the teaching of our indian culture and tradition.This is a wonderful site to to know our inner self and each other and can make a world a family.
We created countries, boundaries,religions,cast,race for any reason.But this the time to realize that we are one and naturally interconnected with each other which we can just realize by watching inhale and exhale of our breaths. The source is same without any discrimination of religion and boundaries, equally for all living life of universe .When we understand this simple thing then we must understand how our and other's life is equally important, valuable and respectable .
We should follow the nature's rule,God has given us a human life not for destruction but to look after the wellbeing of all living life so that peace and harmony can establish in this planet.
I shall be happy if we could be a friend with harmonious relationship.
shyam
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