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.
www.esrnational.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=7

From the Nat' Ass'n for the Education of Young Children, this classic has much that is valuable for parents. It addresses prejudice of all kinds, developmental information, useful book lists and resources.

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).

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.

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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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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Lesson outline and learning activities for six age groups (preschool through adult), plus outline and activities for a day-long intergenerational workshop. Includes photos.

Uses games, music, art, drama, and story-telling to teach effective nonviolent ways to resolve conflicts. Teaches skills of communication, expressing feelings, managing anger, and appreciating diversity. Includes parent activity sheets.

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.

One of ESR's best selling books, this curriculum offers more than 80 activities that help teachers and students define peace, explore justice, and learn the value of conflict and its resolution. Students read, write, draw, role-play, sing, and discuss their way through a process that helps them acquire the concrete cooperative and conflict resolution skills.
www.esrnational.org/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=21

Lessons are designed to enable students to acknowledge, accept, and constructively express their anger. They also learn how to avoid displaced anger, tell a friend they’re angry, avoid provoking anger, keep put-downs from triggering them, and use a model for resolving classroom conflicts. Role-plays and puppets encourage active student involvement. Includes scripted lessons that provide dialogue, examples; blackline masters of transparencies for visual learners; worksheets to help students process lesson concepts; supplementary activities to encourage transfer of skills; parent involvement components.

Includes teacher’s guide, 7 student worksheets, and cassette.
www.sunburst.com

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.

Appendices that include books, references, organizations, and programs are available online through the ACR site:
www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/CRE-kidsworking-appendices

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.

This how-to guide brings skills of peacemaking to real-life situations. It shows you how to promote peacemaking and problem-solving skills across the curriculum. Includes activities, blackline masters, program evaluation forms, scripts, and role plays fostering understanding in your students of win-win guidelines and skills for keeping the peace. Also includes an effective peer mediation program with forms, training guide, script, and group role plays.

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.

Peace Education Foundation, 1900 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132-1025. (800) 749-8838; www.PeaceEducation.com
The Peace Education Foundation was founded in 1980 to continue the work of Grace Contrino Abrams, pioneer in peace education and conflict resolution. Offers violence prevention training institutes and on-site training. Includes bus drivers’ training and peer mediation training.

"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. "