Annotated Peace Resource List

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.

Tackles how prejudice and privilege still affect jobs, education, the judicial system, and the church. Divided into 6 discussion segments.

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Sexual abuse is in our churches, homes, and institutions. This award-winning video features psychotherapist and author Carolyn Holderread Heggen, along with disturbing but true stories of sexual abuse told by actors. For senior high youth and adults only. Divided into 5 discussion segments.

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Examines TV’s role in society in 5 different discussion segments. Media experts explain how and by whom our attitudes on race, sex, roles, politics, and current events are being shaped. Companion video to Beyond the News: TV Violence and Your Child.
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Media experts tell about the effects of TV violence on our behavior, emotions, and fears and what this means for our children. Divided into 5 different discussion segments. Companion to Beyond the News: TV Violence and You.
store.thirdwaymedia.org/p-35-beyond-the-news-tv-violence.aspx

Murder Close Up - SueZann Bosler, Bill Pelke, Mareitta Jaeger, and Bernice King all experience the brutal murder of family members. Also includes Howard Zehr, consultant on criminal justice issues, and Sister Helen Prejean, writer, and lecturer on capital punishment. 35 minutes.

Changing Hearts and Minds - Bud Welch lost his daughter in the Oklahome City bombing. His story moves the debate over capital punishment from a philosophical discussion to a real life level. 15 minutes.

Victims Find A Voice - Wilma and Cliff Derksen's experience of losing their 13-year-old-daughter, Candace, through murder, has led to the development of Victim's Voice, a program in which victims have the chance to talk with prisioners. 22 minutes.

Study guide enclosed for Murder Close Up.

Provides insight into a little publicized aspect of the Gulf War -- its opposition. Interviews four men and two women who attempted to become conscientious objectors during the Gulf War. They joined the military for various reasons: to get a job or money for college, to fulfill a sense of duty, to "be all they can be." Their stories illuminate the transformations they underwent, from raw teenage recruits to responsible adults, willing to take a moral stand despite the personal consequences. Their resistance was met with threats ranging from dishonorable discharge to the death penalty. Raises critical questions for those considering enlistment, for service people contemplating conscientious objection and for anyone concerned with issues of militarism in a democratic society. For youth.

The author shares conflict-resolution strategies in a variety of settings. Stories Offer insights on reconciliation in family conflict, in church and mission situations. Discussion questions. (Peace and Justice Series #10)

Follows Christianity from 90AD to 313AD while it opposed war, and what happened then. (Peace & Justice Series #2)

How do we change personal attitudes or systems that cause injustice? The author Offiers suggestions based on 40 texts from Luke. Each chapter ends with a creative retelling of a text, useful for worship settings.

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.

Designed for personal reflection and journaling within a group-study process, this format is useful in adult electives, small group studies, or retreat settings. Encourages a witness that integrates word and action in daily life. 8 chapters.

Introduces various aspects of conflict and conflict transformation based on biblical and Anabaptist principles.

This revision of the statement on violence presented at the Mennonite Church and General Conference Mennonite Church assembly in 1997 includes personal stories and an extensive bibliography. Includes a 6-session study and action guide by Lois Barrett to help congregations put the statement into practice.

"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.

Can civil disobedience be divine obedience? How do Christians stir governments to provide justice and well-being for all? Marian show how a growing emphasis on the military actually breeds insecurity as it consumes resources and widens the gap between rich and poor. Discussion questions. (Peace and Justice Series #13)

This resource comes from the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, with 8 sessions on various aspects of peacemaking: peace in the family, bullying, poverty, justice without vengeance, hate crime, war, and consumption. Each session has a one-page theological reflection, a "think piece," and suggested activities for a one-hour format. Sessions each include ample lists of other books and websites.

Explains the concept of holy war in the OT and challenges the notion that the OT supports warfare. (Peace & Justice Series #1)

Various authors-- Duane Friesen, Helmut Harder, James Longacre, Hubert Brown and others--write on experiences relating to the Persian Gulf War. Topics addressed include: pacifism and patriotism, Anabaptist beliefs in current war Situations, wars global and economic affects, nuclear war, the role of the mass media, pacifists in the workplace, youth and children during war, dehumanization of the "enemy." Includes discussion questions for each chapter.