Annotated Peace Resource List

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

A child meets many different kinds of people, all of whom could become friends.

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.

Eddie Lee has Down’s syndrome. Christy considers him a pest, though her mom has told her to be good to Eddie. When he follows her and JimBud into the woods, he shares several special discoveries with her. The reader is included in the social dilemmas and the discoveries.

Ill. By Floyd Cooper

Benjamin's playful experiment to find how many things he can do with an empty paper bag leads him to an encounter with a bag lady who has no home of her own.

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.

Sunny the snake doesn’t understand why everyone runs away. This book is about being judged because of appearance. Things change for Sunny when an armadillo who has broken his glasses arrives on the scene. Full-color illustrations on every page.

Set in 1942, the freighter that Phillip and his mother are fleeing on is torpedoed by Germans. Escaping alone with West Indian Timothy, he is blinded and must overcome his prejudice and disability to survive.

Examines the life of the Mexican-American labor organizer who demanded rights for farm workers

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

(Cooperative Children's Book Center--CCBC, School of Education, University of Wisconsin). Includes sections: On the Job, Kids at Work, The Migrant Experience, and Labor Activists. Includes age ranges and thorough annotations.

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.

Result of research into the role of Muslims in Paris, under the Vichy government, who provided sanctuary for those opposing Hitler’s forces and being sought they them. Soft oil paintings accompany the text, which is fairly detailed, so most suitable for older children. Provides new information on rescue activities during this time by Muslims.

How Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose father wanted another preacher-son, managed to find her own voice despite the lack of legal and social rights for women.

Hearing-impaired teenager helps a hearing-impaired child.

The woman who worked with the poor, founded Hull House in Chicago, and became one of the most famous US activists.