Friday morning, I hopped on a bus and made the trek to Sioux Falls, SD for the 19th annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum at Augustana College. The forum as a whole, which centered on the great potential nuclear energy has for a cleaner way to run our lives and the dangers of nuclear energy if it falls into the wrong hands, was a fantastic experience, but I attended one session in particular that I felt had to do a lot with education. Presented by Yumiko Nogami of Luther College, the session was entitled The Role of Peace Education in Promoting Nuclear Disarmament: A Case Study of the Experience of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and it focused on how peace education and how we should begin intergraring it into the public schools, using the experiences from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nogami, whose father was an entry survivor after the bombings, discussed finding new ways to reach kids to teach them about peace, especially with government agencies trying to shush peace educators. A good activity for older students who have a concept of budgets would be to visually represent the United State's budget choices. Using lengths of ribbons or bowls of beans would create a powerful image that would stay with the student, and if a subject matters to a student, he or she is more likely to learn it. Also, something like this could very easily be integrated into a social studies class while the class is discussing the U.S. Government, or an economic class that is learning about budgets. She also discussed age-appropriate ways to teach kids about the horrors of war. For example, showing graphic movies to elementary schools is not appropriate, but maybe showing the film a few years later in the high school would be acceptable. A curriculum that would build on itself each year and teach students new things about peace each year would be ideal. According to Nogami, starting early and keeping consistent is the key for successful Peace Education, which is a very important thing in our warring world. History repeats itself when people forget the past.