34. Prof. Charalee GRAYDON, JD, PhD, tells us about International Environmental Law and her Children's Books on Creativity & Climate Literacy.

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Prof. Charalee GRAYDON, JD, PhD
Associate Professor of Mediation and Law
EUCLID (Euclid University / Pôle Universitaire Euclide)
Charalee Graydon was born in Alberta, Canada. She is a writer, journalist, academic and past lawyer. Her academic work is in the areas of mediation and conflict resolution and climate change education. She is a faculty member at Euclid University.
Charalee holds degrees in Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science, and a Juris Doctorate in Law. Following receipt of a Rhodes scholarship in 1982, she pursued legal studies in Oxford, England where she obtained a B.C. L degree. She held academic positions in England, New Zealand, and Canada, and practiced law in Canada.
She has published three books of literary fiction and one of which has been translated to Spanish. She has published a children’s book, Life on Planet Earth: My Story and is scheduled to publish a non-fiction book, Creating a Masterpiece: The Arts and Conflict Resolution in 2021

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Hello, everybody. Welcome to the sustainable schools, virtual summits. And we have an amazing guest here today. This is Charalee Graydon. She's not just any old Charalee Graydon!!. and she is professor Charlie Graydon. She's a very special lady and she is going to take the floor and you are all going to be very intrigued and glued to either your screen or the audio of this podcast to listen to what she has to say today. Welcome sourly.
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Thank you so much, Melanie. That was a, a beautiful introduction. I appreciate it very much. I am just an ordinary Charale Graydon. I've written a few blogs, but, and I've done a few, you know, lots of teaching, but other than that, I am an ordinary Charalee Graydon. What I'm here today is to talk about some of the books that I have written, particularly in the last one that was just published, which is a book about the creative arts and a calling it's called creating a masterpiece, the creative arts and climate change, the creative arts and, and climate change conflict.
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So in that sense, what we're trying to do is talk about how to deal with conflicts that are arising because of climate change and how the creative arts can add impact to, to help deal with these conflicts. Not only by you'll, you'll hear me talking about the different ways we can do this. So that is the first book that I'm glad to talk about. And most recently I've been working on a children's book. So this is, I'm going to say the first book creating a masterpiece, the creative arts and climate change conflict would be more for an adult audience. So either an upper ever upper level audience.
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So I would say from six at pro, approximately 15, 16, 17 years old. And then the second book that that we're working on is about to be published today or tomorrow will be one that's called life on planet earth. My story. And that is a book that, that has the children telling their stories. So the reader that is the child reader, who is using this book is going to tell their story based on the designs and billboards that are provided to the job. So those are the two books that I'd like to talk about today. Some of the other books that I've written or, or different types of work, more fiction books, but those are the two that I want to speak about today.
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So perhaps I can go to the first book, which is creating, you know, creating a masterpiece. Now people will say, now, what is it? She's not a painter. She's not, you know, she tries to do Jack she's tries to be a Jack of all trades. You know, she's a writer and you know, she, she's a, you know, she's an author, she's a university professor, et cetera, et cetera. So what is it scraping a masterpiece? Well, the masterpiece is really what people can do because we are facing, as we know a global challenge of climate change, that is the major challenge I'm going to say,