Jan Arnow is IPP’s Associate Director for International Interfaith Education. She was the founder and Executive Director of both Stand and Be Counted and the Institute to Prevent Youth Violence and is an internationally recognized authority on multicultural education, violence abatement, prejudice reduction, and leadership. She is a highly respected and award-winning author of eight books and scores of articles for a variety of national magazines. She wrote the comprehensive peace curriculum for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Steps Along the Way: Living as Peacemakers in a Violent World, which was distributed to 11,500 congregations in 2003. Her teaching experience ranges from workshops to university courses. She has developed and successfully taught pilot programs both regionally and nationally on various issues of creativity and education, cross-cultural communication, multicultural education and violence abatement, and her speaking and consulting engagements have ranged from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. to the General Assembly of the United Nations on the issues of children and violence. Her continuing international work frequently takes her to Central Africa (Rwanda, the Congo, Burundi), among other places, where she assists communities in those countries establish interfaith organizations and create successful programs to address peace and reconciliation in war-torn areas.