Annotated Peace Resource List

ACR,1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036, 202-667-9700; fax 202-265-1968; acr@acresolution.org; www.acresolution.org
ACR was formed in 2001 by the merger of the Academy of Family Mediators AFM), the Conflict Resolution Education Network (CREnet), and the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR).

The Games For Change GaCha award for the best Awareness-Raising Game, 2007 "Best Social Awareness Game of 2007," Salon.com Adobe Youth Voices Project of Change, 2008 The game is designed in collaboration between Global Kids Playing 4 Keeps program's youth leaders at South Shore High School in Brooklyn, NY and the game design company GameLab. The context is Haiti, where the Guinard family tries to make ends meet and get ahead in their poverty-stricken homeland. In this sometimes tragic and always challenging simulation game, you help the parents, Jean and Marie, and their children, Patrick, Jacqueline, and Yves, make decisions about work, education, community building, personal purchases, and health care that might brighten their future. During the 2005-2006 school year, Global Kids Youth Leaders in the Playing for Keeps program at South Shore High School gained leadership, research, and game design skills while producing this socially conscious online game, Ayiti: The Cost of Life. The youth chose to design a game that focuses on the issue of poverty as an obstacle to education and uses the country of Haiti as a case study.

The game and its associated curriculum were initially released through UNICEF's Child Alert: Haiti website and TakingITGlobal's network of over 170,000 educators worldwide. In the year after it was released in October 2006, the game experienced a million plays.

3130 - 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. (415) 920-3820; cmbrds@conflictnet.org ; www.communityboards.org
Community Boards has provided peer mediation program development and training at more than 3,000 schools across the country. They sell curricula for K-12 and offer peer mediation training and resources, as well as research on their programs.

Each video begins with a conflict that escalates. The narrator freezes action and describes a skill that could defuse the violence. The same situation is played out again, putting the nonviolent behavior into action. Study guide included.

In Givin’ It (18 min.), someone is spreading rumors about John’s sister, showing how to express criticism, disappointment or anger in a calm, nonthreatening manner.

In Takin’ It (20 min.), Marcus’ father comes down hard because of bad grades, shoing how to accept cricticism nonviolently.

In Workin’ It Out (14 min.), Chad and Lamont begin arguing about a pair of shoes, showing how to negotiate a solution or work out a compromise without resorting to violence.

This "train-the-trainer" manual contains all the administrative components needed to develop, implement and maintain CR/PM programs, including building administrative and faculty support. In addition to comprehensive guidelines for policy and administrative decision making, it includes lesson plans for: (1) 12 hours of staff orientation in teaching the TRIBE Conflict Curriculum for Middle School and TRIBE Conflict Curriculum for High School; (2) 12 hours of peer mediator training, and (3) continuing-ed training for mediators.

This resource developed by Project Adventure provides over 100 adventure activities adapted to work with issues of diversity. Helps develop a safe environment where youth will feel respected, valued, and listened to.

What does the Bible say about violence and armed conflict? A discussion in 6 sessions of issues in the Old and New Testaments.

23 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, (800) 370-2515; educators@esrnational.org; www.esrnational.org
Began working with New York City schools in 1985, ESR helps educators create safe, caring, respectful, and productive learning environments. They also help educators work with young people to develop social skills, emotional competencies, and qualities of character they need to succeed in school and become contributing members of their communities. Offers on-site training and a peer mediation component.

Helps youth understand conflict and its function. They will learn ways to be honest and loving, while exploring how conflict can be used for positive results. Also teaches ways to enhance communication skills.

A hands-on tool to help youth think biblically about the violence that dominates 80 percent of computer and video games. Three possible formats: one-day workshop, a two-session series, or a one-session workshop. Helps youth carefully consider the harmful effects of violent computer games.

Kids Working It Out offers a guide to the most current and effective school-based conflict resolution programs and shows how these programs can make a positive difference in our schools. Students and teachers share their stories of how Conflict Resolution Education, has shaped their experiences. The book covers curriculum integration, peer mediation, restorative justice, and others— and shows what it takes to implement an effective program in any school, and any community.

Designed for group study, this book includes a personal inventory on conflict management style, discussion guides, personal reflection exercises, and role plays for active listening and appropriate speaking. Includes a leader’s guide at the back.

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.

Resources available by subject: Children, Conciliation, Immigration, Indigenous Issues, Peace, Racism....  Most available for the cost of shipping.

Recommended for middle and upper grades, the kit includes a 40-minute documentary video and a viewer's guide with classroom activities and historical documents that bring the Montgomery Bus Boycott alive for today's students.

Curriculum Kits available free at: www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/res/index.jsp

Designed for 6 sessions, this DVD has 24 segments that look at peace with God; in the community, nation, earth, relationships; the role of service; peace between cultures; where to draw the line on conscience; and related public policies. The website and study guide supply study questions, activities, and way to put beliefs into actions. In one segment, Calling for Peace, two women with vastly different opinions and on different sides of the Iraq war conflict begin to see each other as friends even though they don't agree. Youth are challenged to brainstorm solutions for conflicts they've experienced. Website: store.thirdwaymedia.org/p-96-peace-dvd.aspx

800-749-8838
A variety of peace education resources, in English and other languages, for the school and group setting. Research to determine the effectiveness of the curricula found significant decreases in anti-social behavior, significant increases in social competence, and more positive classroom environments.

"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. "

www.communityboards.org
A Training and Implementation Guide. Clear step-by-step outreach, training and program maintenance procedures, Developmentally appropriate concepts, materials and activities, 12-hour peer mediation training model, Extensive appendices with forms, evaluations, parent communications, etc, Contains all necessary worksheets and handouts, 182 pages, perfect bound
Table of Contents & Training Agenda available: charityadvantage.com/communityboards/images/High%20-%20C%20A.pdf