At Home in the World:

Work, Teach, Care, Share, Do Good, &

Be Happy

Rey Ty

At Home in the World:

Work, Teach, Care, Share, Do Good, &

Be Happy

Rey Ty

At Home in the World: Work, Teach, Care, Share, & Do Good Rey Ty at Northern Illinois University This is an open access publication. For the purpose of this book, appropriate attribution can be provided by acknowledging the publisher, citing the original author of the work, citing the original book properly, and date of the publication in which the item appeared, which does not in any way suggest that we endorse you or your use of the work. For any reuse or redistribution of a work, you must also make clear the terms under which the work was reproduced. Open access to, and free use of, original work ensures the publication is freely and openly available. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. © 2014 Rey Ty Written at Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.A. Internet: http://niu.academia.edu/ReyTy I gratefully acknowledge my family members and friends from all over the world for its support for this project, many of whom took my photographs included in this book. Index •3R •Advocacy •Activism •Adult Education •Alternative Energy •Animal Protection •Armed Conflict •Art •Art Products Made of Recycled Materials •Waste Management •Asia •Asian Studies •Berkeley •Buddhist Temple •Chicago •Christianity •Civil society •Class Consciousness •Class Struggle •Coalition Building •Community •Community Building •Community Development •Community Project •Community Service •Comparative Politics •Conferences •Conflict Management •Conflict Resolution •Conflict Transformation •Deep Ecology •Denmark •Doctorate •EcologicalActivism •Environment •Environmental •Awareness •Environmentalism •Feminism •Europe •France •Geneva •Germany •Grassroots Democracy •Human Resource Development •Human Rights •Indigenous Peoples •Interfaith Dialogue •International Humanitarian Law •International Relations •Islam •Laws of War •Leadership •Mangrove Rehabilitation •Master of Arts •Master’s degree •Mindanao •Mosque •Nature •Nature and Society •Peace •Peace Building •Philippines •Philosophy •Politics •Political Science •Political Struggle •Political Theory •Political Thought •Post-colonialism •Protest •Publication •Reform •Revolution •Riverside Clean Up •Sea Turtles •Social Action •Social Justice •Social Movement •Solar Lamps •Southeast Asia •State •Struggle •Sustainable Development •Switzerland •Synagogue •Tree Planting •University oif California at Berkeley •U.S.A. •Vegetable Gardening •Vermicomposting •Violence •Volunteer •Waste Management •Water Conservation •Youth •Youth Leadership Production Credits DeKalb, Illinois United States of America

View of the Swiss Alps from my bedroom in Cartigny, Switzerland

Photo with friends in the

Human Rights Fields

Officer Training in

Geneva, Switzerland

Luxembourg & Germany, Europe

With my students in India where I taught International

Human Rights

My apartment: rue Lauriston, in the

16th arrondissement in Paris, France

At the Opera in Chicago,

La Bohème

Doctorate

T.V. interview in Illinois

Friends at the University of California, Berkeley

My pad at the University of California, Berkeley

Friends from Brazil & Uruguay

Leadership workshop with Engineering students from

China

Mosque Synagogue

Artist Friends

Fermi Lab

U.S. Supreme Court University of the Philippines

Citizens’ Alliance for Consumer Protection

Defence for Children International

Maison bleue de Maxime Leforestier à San Francisco

University of Califor-nia at Berkeley

Regular Friday Peace Vigil, DeKalb, Illinois

International Humanitarian Law (Laws of Law) field training with the Swiss Army in Switzerland

Photo with friends in the Human Rights Fields Officer Training in Geneva, Switzerland

Terry Reynolds, Native American friend

Theravada Monks

Capitol Hill, Washington,

D.C.

Galena, Illinois

Conference Paper Presentations

Class Lecture

Muslim-Indigenous-

Christian Interfaith Dialogue

Indigenous Friend

Imam Friend

Workshop on Planning for Volunteer Community Service

Muslim Friends

Buddhist Temple Visit

Interaction with American Students

Diverse Friends

Interfaith Conference, California

International Training Office

Staff

Rey Given

the Rochelle Award

With Friend Princess Emraida Kiram of the Sultanate of Sulu

At the Washington Monument & Jefferson Memorial with Muslims, Indigenous Peoples, & Christians

Superintendent Mr. J. Craven &

Social Studies Chair Mrs. E.

White

At the Iwo Jima Memorial with Muslims, Indigenous Peoples, & Christians

White House, Washington, D.C.

Volunteer Work Teaching

Native American & Muslim Friends

Walking back to my office at Williston Hall, 4th Floor

United Nations

Asian cooking

demo Asian

American friends

Rochelle

Saudi, Korean, & Uruguayan friends

George Washington’s Vernon Estate

Washington Monument

Capitol Hill

Russian & Ukrainian Friends

Synagogue

At Home in the World:

Work, Teach, Care, Share, & Do Good

Rey Ty at Northern Illinois University

Index

•3R •Advocacy •Activism •Adult Education •Alternative Energy •Animal Protection •Armed Conflict •Art •Art Products Made of Recycled

Materials •Waste Management •Asia •Asian Studies •Berkeley •Buddhist Temple •Chicago •Christianity •Civil society •Class Consciousness •Class

Struggle •Coalition Building •Community •Community Building •Community Development •Community Project •Community Service •Comparative

Politics •Conferences •Conflict Management •Conflict Resolution •Conflict Transformation •Deep Ecology •Denmark •Doctorate •Ecological

Activism •Environment •Environmental •Awareness •Environmentalism •Feminism •Europe •France •Geneva •Germany •Grassroots Democracy •Human

Resource Development •Human Rights •Indigenous Peoples •Interfaith Dialogue •International Humanitarian Law •International

Relations •Islam •Laws of War •Leadership •Mangrove Rehabilitation •Master of Arts •Master’s degree •Mindanao •Mosque •Nature •Nature and

Society •Peace •Peace Building •Philippines •Philosophy •Politics •Political Science •Political Struggle •Political Theory •Political Thought •Post-

colonialism •Protest •Publication •Reform •Revolution •Riverside Clean Up •Sea Turtles •Social Action •Social Justice •Social Movement •Solar

Lamps •Southeast Asia •State •Struggle •Sustainable Development •Switzerland •Synagogue •Tree Planting •University oif

California at Berkeley •U.S.A. •Vegetable Gardening •Vermicomposting •Violence •Volunteer •Waste

Management •Water Conservation •Youth •Youth Leadership

DeKalb, Illinois United States of America