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.

Six sessions about different aspects of the peacemaking life. Each includes a biblical dialogue, stories about peacemakers, biblical dramas, issues for discussion, and ideas for parents.

This 5-session Bible study examines racism and challenges students to work at changing systems that oppress people of color. Discussions and activities will help youth identify prejudice, consider how and why privileges are given to white people, and work at dismantling systems that discriminate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vacation Bible School curriculum uses New Testament stories to teach children how Jesus handles conflict. Modern skits wrap around the daily Bible story. Children are given choices, offering experience in making good choices toward conflict resolution.
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This 5-session Bible study encourages youth to live nonviolently. Through storytelling, activities, and scriptural reflection, students discover there are many ways, outside of violence, to deal with anger. They will become familiar with nonviolent responses, discover the importance of honesty in times of conflict, and form a new perspective on their relationship with "the enemy."

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

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.

An active 5-session study that helps junior high youth challenge the violence around them by promoting heroes who live out Christ’s call to be peacemakers: Jesus, Mother Teresa, Francis of Assisi, John Perkins, and Muriel Lester. Sessions combine stories of peacemakers with Scripture.

"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. "