Annotated Peace Resource List

This how-to guide brings skills of peacemaking to real-life situations. It shows you how to promote peacemaking and problem-solving skills across the curriculum. Includes activities, blackline masters, program evaluation forms, scripts, and role plays fostering understanding in your students of win-win guidelines and skills for keeping the peace. Also includes an effective peer mediation program with forms, training guide, script, and group role plays.

4208 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, NC 27609. (919) 783-8483; Fax: (919) 783-8478; mnnc@mnnc.org; mnnc.org .
The mission of the Mediation Network of North Carolina includes promoting education, training, and research on mediation issues.

Takes students through the entire process: understanding the role and purpose of mediation, recognizing and responding to nonverbal communications, paraphrasing, questioning skills, and the six-step mediation process. Includes implementation tips and real-world scenarios for practice. Comes with teacher’s guide, student books, and 2 posters.

Peace Education Foundation, 1900 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132-1025. (800) 749-8838; www.PeaceEducation.com
The Peace Education Foundation was founded in 1980 to continue the work of Grace Contrino Abrams, pioneer in peace education and conflict resolution. Offers violence prevention training institutes and on-site training. Includes bus drivers’ training and peer mediation training.

"Our mission is to empower teachers, children and families with the values and skills necessary to create a culture of peace." Includes curriculum and resources for Kindergarten through teenage years.

"The comprehensive approach nurtures peace within the self, relationships, society, and the planet. The essence of Peace Quest is the learning through discovery, encountering life as a journey with purpose. Over 100 intergenerational, experiential lessons are beautifully llustrated with this remarkable resource. It is an essential text for everyone who wants to practice the positive life skills of being a peacemaker. "

Covers many peacemaking skills: community building, anger management, perception, effective communication, problem solving skills... Lesson plans include activities and discussion questions and ideas for transferring the lesson into everyday classroom activities. Student guides provide challenging, fun activities. Includes teacher’s guide, 30 activity books, and 2 posters.

Uses engaging children’s literature to teach peacemaking skills such as social skills, multicultural respect, and win/win solutions. Titles used include: A Bargain for Frances, Big Al, The Butter Battle Book, A Chair for My Mother, Everybody Cooks Rice, Horton Hears a Who, Knots on a Counting Rope, Loudmouth George and the Sixth Grade Bully, Trees of Cranes... and Teaching Peace cassette.

Uses children’s literature to covers topics such as bullying, prejudice, self-control and empathy. Titles used include: Annie and the Old One, The Bobbin Girl, The Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Died, Dragon Soup, The Paper Bag Prince, Pink and Say, Smoky Night, She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on her Head... . And Hello World cassette.

Ass’n for Conflict Resolution. Online power point presentation gives research findings, available on the ACR
site: www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/CRE-jones-research

Over 100 step-by-step lessons and illustrated activities to give K-6 students the tools and empathy they need to solve conflicts peacefully.

Includes teacher’s guide, 12 student worksheets, and English/Spanish send-home pages, board game, song cassette.
www.sunburst.com

Teacher's guide with 16 student worksheets and English/Spanish send-home pages, plus full-color poster, game, audiocassette of songs.
www.sunburst.com

The Guidelines outline how elementary and secondary school teachers, administrators, conflict resolution education practitioners, and policy makers can measure progress toward effective conflict resolution education programs. By addressing core goals, components, content and qualities of effective school-based conflict resolution education programs, these Guidelines are intended to also help leaders to make decisions about the resources and strategies needed to support such educational programs in their schools. Available online at the ACR site:
www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/articles/CE6B4C41BEBF14FD85256C1C00657E9B

Good for the classroom, Sunday School, and after-school programs in three one-hour sessions. Includes chapters of introduction to conflict management options and skills, as well as one on their application. Simple to pick up and use. Includes 6 different activity sheets that focus on paraphrasing, emotions, empathizing, predicting, review, and case studies for role playing. Available from Pinchpenny Press, Goshen College, Goshen, IN 46526. (574) 535-7450; fax: (574) 535-7293; Pinchpenny@goshen.edu.

This curriculum for grades K-8 is one of the best, used extensively and well tested. See www.cfchildren.org .

"The award-winning Second Step program teaches social and emotional skills for violence prevention: Empathy, Impulse control, Anger management, Problem solving. The program includes research-based, teacher-friendly curricula, training for educators, and parent-education components. Includes materials for PreK -Grade 9. Also available on the website are research articles."

4093 Specialty Place, Longmont, CA 80504, (303) 651-2829; webmaster@sopriswest.com; www.sopriswest.com
Since 1980 has been using research to provide "best practice" resources, information on current educational issues, and resources on reaching students who are "tough to teach." Offers various training formats.

This manual provides the step-by-step methods and means for implementing a Conflict Manager program in elementary, middle or high schools. Includes implementation steps, information for training teachers and staff and outreach materials for parents. One manual recommended per school.

101 Castleton Street, Pleasantville, NY 10570, (800) 321-7511 www.sunburst.com K-12 educational software and online teacher resources