Peace Curricula
Recommended by
Peace and Justice Support Network
The following resources are fantastic!
But we don't sell them.
Please contact the groups listed and not us. Thanks!
Provident Bookstores:
800-759-4447
Faith
& Life Press: 800-743-2484
Mennonite
Media (MM): 800-999-3534
Elementary
Becoming
God's Peacemakers (Suella L. Gerber,
Kathleen K. Janssen, Rosemary G. Widmer, 1992,
Faith and Life Press, ISBN 0-87303-183-0) - But WHY
Don't We Go to War? Finding Jesus' Path to Peace
(Susan Mark Landis, 1993, Herald Press, ISBN
0-8361-3647-0)
Kids and
Conflict: Resolving Problems the Jesus Way (Eleanor Snyder,
Living Stones series, Faith and Life Press, 1997, ISBN
0-87303-228-4)
- Parenting for Peace and
Justice books available from:
Institute for Peace and Justice
4144 Lindell, #122
St Louis, MO 63108
Phone 314-533-4445 - Creating Circles of Peace: Resources for families, congregations and schools on a pledge of nonviolence
- Rhythms of Peace I
& II (video and teacher's guide
from Mennonite Media)
Junior Youth
Challenging
Racism (Jody Miller Shearer, ISBN
0-87303-210-1)
Games
That Byte: Helping Youth Evaluate Computer Games
(Cornelia Penner, ISBN 0-87303-331-0)
Living Without
Violence (Jody Miller Shearer,
Fast Lane Bible Studies for Junior High, Faith and Life
Press, 1994, ISBN 0-87303-222-5)
Peace Heroes
(Christine Neufeld,
Fast Lane Bible Studies for Junior High, Faith and Life
Press, 1996, ISBN 0-87303-306-X)
Youth
- Decide for Peace, A
packet for young people registering their
convictions about war, peace, and conscientious
objection to military service. (Faith & Life)
Does God Fight? Violence in
the Bible (David Radcliff, ISBN
0-87303-265-9)
Fight
Right: A Christian Approach to Conflict
(Jim & Kim Yaussy Albright, ISBN 0-87303-279-9)
Peace-Just Live
It! (Christine
Neufeld, Faith and Life Press, 1995)
Adult
Called
to be Peacemakers (John Stoner, New Call
to Peacemaking, Box 500, Akron PA 17501; 717-859-1958)
Conflict
in the Church (video available from MCC, 21
S. 12 St, Akron PA 17501; 717-859-1958)
The
Journey toward Reconciliation (John Paul
Lederach, 1999, Herald Press, ISBN 0-8361-9082-3)
Justice
that Heals (Arthur Paul Boers, Faith &
Life Press, ISBN 0-87303-184-9)
Let's
Talk: Communication Skills and Conflict Transformation
(Barry C. Bartel, 1999, Faith & Life Press)
Living
the Vision: Evangelism and Peace (Eleanor
Synder and Dave Rogalsky, Faith & Life Press, ISBN
0-87303-323-X)
Making
Peace with Conflict (ed Carolyn
Schrock-Shenk & Lawrence Ressler, 1999, Herald Press,
ISBN 0-8361-9127-7)
A
Mennonite Statement and Study on Violence
(Lois Barrett, Faith & Life Press, 1998, ISBN
0-87303-339-6)
Questions that
Refuse to Go Away: Peace and Justice in North America
(Marian C. Franz, 1991, Herald Press, ISBN 0-8361-3558-X)
Transforming
Violence: Linking Local and Global Peacemaking
(ed: Robert Herr and Judy Zimmerman Herr, 1998, Herald
Press, ISBN 0-8361-9098)
All ages
- Peace Education: Ideas
That Work
- compiled by Peace
and Justice Ministries
MCC U.S.
PO Box 500
Akron PA 17501-0155
717-859-3889
Beyond
the News videos are available from
Mennonite Media
- Beyond the News: TV Violence & You and TV Violence & Your Child
- Beyond the News: Murder Close Up
- Beyond the News: Firearms Violence
- Beyond the News: Homelessness
- Beyond the News: Hope for Bosnia
- Beyond the News: Racism
- Beyond the News: Sexual Abuse
- Beyond the News: Money