Annotated Peace Resource List

A history of pacifism and those protesting war in the US, from colonial days until anti-nuclear protests in the early '80s.

A perfect companion for Tolerance.org's online Civil Rights Memorial,"America's Civil Rights Movement" tells the story of the struggle to end official apartheid in the U.S. The kit includes the video "A Time for Justice", the text "Free at Last", and a teacher’s guide for middle and upper grades.

Curriculum Kits available free at: www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/res/index.jsp

Seventeen stories from various places and among different faiths, of people who "overcome evil with good."

Touches on pre-Colonial issues, Puritan beliefs, the Civil War, Cuban Missile Crisis and modern peacemakers. Topics include immigration, national expansion, music, war, diplomacy, and democracy, as well as community building, perception, anger management, body language, I-statements, and social action. Lessons include activities, discussion questions, tips for transferring the lesson into other activities, and skills practice for students to try out their skills.

This book tells the story of Vedran Smailovic through the eyes of a young boy named Alen. Vedran Smailovic played his cello for 22 days in honor of the 22 victims of a bomb blast in Sarajevo. He played in the streets in the midst of continuing shelling. It is a testimony to the power of music and to the courage of one person who saw the insanity of war. It is beautifully illustrated with paintings by Deryk Houston.

The sad tale of zoo keepers who have to kill their animal friends at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo during World War II.

Three half-hour stories of nonviolence in action: 1960 student sit-in at segregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tenn., the Salt March led by Gandhi and resulting successes in colonial India, and black township resistance in South Africa.

Coming out of the PBS documentary "A Force More Powerful," this book has twelve chapters that detail the rich history of nonviolent movements that overthrew dictators, obstructed military invaders, and secured human rights. Sections on Russia (1905); India; Poland; the Ruhrkampf (1923); Scandinavia (WWII); El Salvador (1944); Argentina and Chile; U.S. Civil Rights; South Africa; Philippines; the Intifada (1980s); China, Eastern Europe and Mongolia. Includes maps and photographs.
The accompanying website, www.pbs.org/weta/forcemorepowerful/ , was developed to support the documentary. It also shares background information on the film and 13 specific historical examples. Discusses what constitutes nonviolent action (as well as what it is not: passive, only for saints, dependent on the good will of others...).

Three half-hour stories of nonviolence in action: Danish resistance to the Nazis in WWII, resistance to dictator Pinochet in Chile, and the rise of labor solidarity in Poland.

Compiled by Merri V. Lindgren, 2003. (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.

Compiled by Megan Schliesman, 2003. (Cooperative Children's Book Center--CCBC, School of Education, University of Wisconsin). Includes sections: Paths to Peace: Ideas and Actions for Change (picture books, fiction, and non-fiction) and Road of Heartbreak: The Costs of Conflict and Injustice (picture books, fiction, and non-fiction). Gives age ranges and thorough annotations.

Based on a true story from a Virginia plantation in the 1880's where a slave "riddled" his way to freedom.

Chapers focus on different aspects of peacemaking, with many suggestions and examples.

Stories from the actual experience of refugees from Russia after WWII, full of suspense, involving American soldiers, Russians officers and a midnight train ride.

Stories of shalom--from all around the world, AD 39 to 1980--of people loving, caring and sharing in the name of Jesus.

During the terrible years of WWII, the French village of Le Chambon, led by pastor Andre Trocme, organized tosave thousands of Jews.

The invasion of Iraq reached Basra on april 6, 2003. With the help of freinds and neighbors, Alia Muhammed Baker, chief librarian of Basra's Central Library, managed to rescue seventy percent of the library's collection before the library burned nine days later. This is that story with bright acrylic illustrations.

This book explores costs of war and it’s alternatives and reviews little-known facts about nonviolent examples in U.S. history, such as a plan for independence that would have avoided the Revolutionary War, but that lost by one vote (to avoid aspects that came about anyway, even with the war). The book portrays overlooked "original peacemakers," from Native American traditions; those involved in the anti-slavery movement, Civil War, reconstruction, and women’s rights struggles; as well as efforts during the wars (including the ones "to end all wars" and "to make the world safe for democracy") in the 1900s.

Describes the life of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia before and after the US government forcibly removed them from their land.

Stories of ten Mennonite conscientious objectors who refused the draft during the Vietnam War.