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Peace Be With You
Lehn, Cornelia
1980   126 p.   Ages: 9-15
ISBN: 0873030613
  
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Over 50 stories from the first century to the twentieth about people who chose to "overcome evil with good."

A Peace Reader
Sider, E. Morris and Luke Keefer Jr.
2002   279 p.   Ages: 18-Adult
ISBN: 1928915302
  
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"Societal pressures to accept violent solutions, to avoid the way of reconciliation, are difficult for many Christians to resist, even those in peace churches. This collection of readings joins the call to Christians to be peacemakers rather than to succumb to what is normal in the surrounding culture."

The book addresses national and international issues as well as tensions in families and congregations, and the treatment of criminals , the poor, and the unborn. Authors discuss biblical themes, church history, and practical applications and reflect on 9/11/01. Includes peacemaking stories. Each reading has an introduction with discussion questions. Authors include: JR Burkholder, G.H.C. MacGregor, Marlin Miller, Harriet Bicksler, Ronald Sider, Spencer Perkins, Chris Rice, Marlin Jeschke, Mark Twain’s The War Prayer, E. Stanley Jones, Miroslav Volf, Duane Friesen. Many chapters are pulled from other books, to represent a smattering of resource thought-provoking resources in various fields, with references for further study.


The Peace Seekers: The Nobel Peace Prize
Aaseng, Nathan
1991   80 p.   Ages: 9-12
  

Profiles of nine Nobel Peace Prize winners who fought for The peace by resisting violence through words and actions.

A Place at the Table

      Ages: 18-Adult
  

"A Place at the Table" tells the story of our nation's struggle to ensure liberty and justice for all. One element sets the video apart from most historical documentaries: It is narrated entirely by young people. The book component explores this history in greater depth, while the teachers' guide provides 13 detailed lesson plans for use in the middle and upper grades. The kit includes the video, the 144-page text, and a teacher’s guide.

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


A Place to Hide: True Stories of Holocaust Survivors
Pettit, Jayne
1993   114 p.   Ages: 9-12
ISBN: 059045353X
  
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Men and women who risked their lives to help the Jews.

The Politics of Nonviolent Action
Sharp, Gene
1973   3 vol   Ages: 18-Adult
ISBN: 087558070X
  
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Thorough analysis of nonviolent action in history. Vol. 2 gives 198 different types of actions, with historical examples.

Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust
Meltzer, Milton
1988   168 p.   Ages: 10-Adult
ISBN: 0064461173
  
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In the horror that was the Holocaust, some human decency could still shine through. Stories accompanied by maps.

Rhythms of Peace Around the World

2001   39 min.   Ages: 7-10
  

Stories from Cuba, Jamaica, and Bulgaria deal with prejudice, ethnic differences, and daily life in other cultures.

A River Ran Wild
Cherry, Lynne
1992   32 p.   Ages: 6-10
ISBN:0152005420
  
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The 7000 year old story of the Nashua River (Massachusetts and New Hampshire), those who lived on its banks through the years, and the actions of Marion Stoddart in the 1960s to clean it up. Older readers can get more details in the author's note at the beginning and the chronology.

Seeking Peace
Peachey, Titus & Linda Gehman
1991   230 p.   Ages: 15-Adult
ISBN: 1561480495
  
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True stories of Mennonites around the world struggling to live their belief in peace.

Shadow of Hate

      Ages: 18-Adult
  

The "Shadow of Hate" chronicles episodes of intolerance throughout U.S. history — from the plights of Quakers in colonial New England to the 1991 riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y. The kit includes the video “Shadow of Hate”, the text "Us and Them", and a teacher's guide.

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


The Tainos: The People Who Welcomed Columbus
Jacobs, Francine
1992   117 p.   Ages: 9-14
  

Columbus and the Europeans who followed him enslaved the Tainos to satisfy Europe's hunger for gold. This book also tells of the Christian missionaries who provide us a prophetic example.

They Loved Their Enemies: True Stories of African Christians
Hostetler, Marian
1988   96 p.   Ages: 10-15
ISBN: 0836134567
  
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(Peace & Justice Series #3)

The Tree that Would Not Die
Levine, Ellen
1995   32 p.   Ages: 6-10
ISBN:0590437240
  
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"One morning hundreds of years ago, an acorn fell and grew in the earth. And that was me... " This is the story of the Treaty Oak of Austin Texas, the historic events and changes over time, and efforts to protect it in the most recent past. A wonderful sweep of history bringing out the perspective of our natural resources

Victories Without Violence: True Stories of Ordinary People Coming Through Dangerous Situations Without Using Physical Force
Fry, A. Ruth
1986   88 p.   Ages: 18-Adult
ISBN: 0943734061
  
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Originally published in 1939 in England, Jennifer Goodwin writes in the preface to this American ed.: "Statistics show that people with guns in their homes are far more likely to be injured or killed...and our billions of dollars of military hardware not only haven’t made us feel secure, but in numerous confrontations we have been helpless to protect out citizens abroad... .The reappearance of similar events during so many different times and places suggests that they may reveal universal truths... .Ruth Fry revised the book and added new stories for more than a decade. In the course of over a year’s recent research on the psychology of violence, I myself have learned of many comparable ones. We are shown here that there are forms of power we have been ignoring or downgrading for centuries, that physical force is not the law work in human affairs."

Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th century Practice and 21st Century Potential
Gene Sharp
2005   598 p.   Ages: 18-Adult
ISBN: 0875581625
  
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"Senior scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution of Boston, Massachusetts Gene Sharp and his team of like-minded researchers apply 50 years of history, academics, and practical experience to present Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential, a meticulous accounting of how nonviolent methodologies can combat dictatorships, war, genocide, and oppression. Waging Nonviolent Struggle is particularly valuable in its use of logic and close analysis of specific historical cases of nonviolent struggle to debunk common myths concerning the practice. Such myths include the contention that nonviolence is ineffective against dictatorships and genocide, or that nonviolent methodologies rely upon an appeal to the moral character of the opponent ....."--Midwest Book Reviews www.midwestbookreview.com

Walking with Jesus: Stories About Real People Who Returned Good for Evil
Meyer, Mary, ed.
1992   87 p.   Ages: 4-10
ISBN: 0836135741
  
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Twenty real-life situations from several countries.

War Game
Foreman, Michael
1993      Ages: 5-10
  

Four English boys emerge from the trenches of World War I during a Christmas Day cease-fire and join in an enlightening soccer game involving soldiers from both sides of the war, in a story based on an actual event.

War Preventin Works: 50 Stories of People Resolving Conflict
Dylan Mathews
2001   110 p.   Ages: 18-Adult
ISBN: 095113616X
  
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Fifty brief, but informative, concrete, documented examples of peacemaking in violent contexts around the globe--before the violence, in escalating violence, full-blown violence, contained violence, and after the violence...

The White Feather
Eitzen, Ruth
1987   64 p.   Ages: 5-9
ISBN: 0836190254
  
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A Quaker family in Ohio in the 1800's makes peace with a Shawnee tribe during a very troubled time.

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