Annotated Peace Resource List

Designed to meet the unique needs of afterschool programs, camps and recreation centers. Activities include drama, cooperative challenges, cooking, and art.
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When something disappears out of your lunch box or your locker or your desk every day, you’d like to say, "No big deal." But even minor theft is a big deal to kids. This book shows children several different ways of ending an annoying problem. It emphasizes brainstorming solutions and evaluating each option before taking action. (Parenting Press' "Kids Can Choose" series)

What to do when an "ugly bunch of angry words" goes from one person to another? (A colorful update of the "Quarreling Book" story.)

A child treats a disagreeable classmate with kindness and is glad--even though she feels her effort is in vain.

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).

Nick Jones, a big kid in the fifth grade, has been picking on you on the bus. Today he said he'll punch your your face in. You can choose different ways of acting. (See other titles in this "The Decision is Yours" series.)

Phone: 1-800-634-4449
"Our programs focus on the essential skills of empathy, impulse control, anger management, problem solving, personal safety, and emergent literacy. Each program takes a unique approach that is based on extensive research to help children succeed in school and in life.
We also conduct evaluation research, provide training and ongoing support to educators and parents, and develop assessment tools for schools and agencies."
Programs include: Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum; Steps to Respect: A Bullying Prevention Program; Talking About Touching: A Personal Safety Curriculum.

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.

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Separate sequences for each grade level,Developmentally appropriate lessons and activities, Incremental lessons that strengthen skills, Asset development in critical communication and problem solving skills, Contains all necessary worksheets and handouts, Each lesson includes follow-up reinforcement exercises, 186 pages, perfect bound
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Builds on the conflict resolution skills and concepts covered in Conflict Resolution for Kindergarten through Grade 3 In the 4th grade students are introduced to the mediation process and learn the skills needed to mediate. Mediation skills are reviewed and refined in the 5th grade. Can be used to train student mediators in an individual class or for a school-wide mediation program.
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Topics include: listening skills, I-messages, anger management, choice and consequences, feelings, perception, diversity, and negotiation. Includes a section on how to make conflict resolution part of regular classroom activities.
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Teaches adolescents how to resolve their own conflicts, and how to apply what they learn to larger conflicts in the community, country, and world. Topics include power, injustice, prejudice, violence.

A football star called Crash torments a classmate who is, among other things, a pacifist. Then Crash's grandfather suffers a stroke...

This classic book provides elementary school teachers with thoughtful, effective ideas for responding to every day classroom conflicts. Includes over 200 classroom-tested activities and games and over 20 different techniques with examples.
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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 12 hours of staff orientation in teaching.
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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 classic book is a tool for the reader to learn about managing conflict in his or her own life: to learn the range of appropriate conflict-management strategies and when each works best, and to identify their own preferred stydles of conflict management and consider using other styles as well.

A brief, comic fable about a nesting duck that causes a battle's postponement, resulting in cooperation.