Photograph by Jeff Crespi
The Community Mediation Center is building peace in our community one person at a time. Peace building in Calvert is the highest priority of this new center. By encouraging peaceful conflict resolution through free mediation services and facilitating community problem solving, the Center empowers local residents to build a better world for themselves and their children.
Please join us!
 PEACEBUILDERS are advocates for resolving conflict in a nonviolent way.
PEACEBUILDERS practice peaceful conflict resolution in their daily lives.
PEACEBUILDERS support the Community Mediation Center by spreading the word that “Mediation Works”.
Peacebuilder bookmarks and dove pins are available for a $10.00 donation to the Community Mediation Center of Calvert. Donors will have their names listed in the CMC Peacebuilder Newsletter, which will be published at the end of the year, and will get an invitation to our Peacebuilders Celebration. Donors will also be invited to participate in a video about ordinary citizens who work to build peace in their daily lives. . .within their families, neighborhoods, communities and in themselves.
Anne Mychalus, CMC Director, receives Proclamation for the Community Mediation Center from the Calvert County Commissioners, October 16, 2007.
The Community Mediation Center of Calvert County’s
First Birthday was celebrated on October 18, 1007
in conjunction with National Conflict Resolution Day.
We invited members of the community to bring their gifts of peace (poetry, music, peaceful thoughts) to the Open House held at the Phillips House in Prince Frederick.
Sheila Martel interviewed the guests and Jeff Crespi photographed them to document the "Many Faces and Voices of Peace Builders in Calvert County". (The pictures and thoughts will appear on this page at a future time).
Here are just a few of the
Many Faces and Voices of Peace-Builders. . .
Mark Guiffrida offers beautiful peace-filled music on a Native American flute (left). Tom Wisner speaks of peace-making with planet earth, and shares a song connecting us with the natural world around us (right).
Lorig Charkoudian, Executive Director of Community Mediation Maryland, with her daughter, Ailene. Lorig offered her perspective on Community Mediation Centers and their role in peace-building.
Diana Waring, Anne Harrison, Vicki Rhoades and Anne Mychalus are all mediators and supporters of CMC. All shared their thoughts of peace-building in the community.
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