Celebrating Peace
Peacemaking resources for children, including Visions of Peace Art Collection,
coloring pages, teachers' resources and group activities and games.
Committee for
Children
Committee for Children has programs and prevention curricula on youth
violence, bullying, child abuse, and personal safety.
Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum, including research.
Steps to Respect: A Bullying Prevention Program, including research.
Tips for Teachers
A Force More Powerful
Developed to support the PBS documentary (six 30-min. episodes available
on DVD), this site shares background information on the six examples of
20th century nonviolent action, plus seven more.
Educational Outreach Materials include a 16-p. study guide with program synopses, background information, pictures, descriptions of nonviolent strategies, maps, timelines, discussion questions, research activities, and additional resources for high school and college (English and Spanish).
Three lesson plans extend and reinforce the concepts presented in A Force More Powerful. They were designed for high school instruction in government, political science, history, law, and other social sciences.
A Force More Powerful: The Game of Nonviolent Strategy
The game was developed by The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, simulating nonviolent struggles to win freedom and secure human rights against dictators, occupiers, colonizers, and corrupt regimes. AFMP is a single-player, turn-based game in which the player is chief strategist in a nonviolent movement against the opponent in one of ten pre-packaged scenarios. The player takes charge of the movement's materials and human resources, recruits new members and builds alliances. The adversary is controlled by the game's artificial intelligence. For players aged 14 and up.
Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ)
IPJ is an ecumenical youth organization focusing on families, children,
and youth. It created and adapted a Pledge of Nonviolence for schools,
congregations and parishes, youth groups, workplaces, and prisons.
Resources
Site includes resources for use by families, churches, public and Christian schools.
My Hero
This site includes a page of photos and biographical materials for peacemaker
heroes - people from all over the world, young and old.
The Teachers' Room includes a variety of resources such as lesson plans. There is information for anyone wanting to create an entry for a hero of their own.
The site also includes some short films about various heroes (including Benjamin Banneker, grandchild of an ununusal interracial marriage), and Global Tribe: Visit to Robben Island in South Africa.
Online Teacher Center (OTC)
Educators for Social Responsibility provides teaching resources on a range
of issues related to international security, conflict resolution, peacemaking,
violence resolution, and social responsibility. Free registration required.
Lessons and activities are searchable by grade or subject. Links connect to online resources on countering bullying/harassment and discrimination, as well as addressing world conflicts.
Peace Education Foundation
Major producer of peace curricula. The home page links to research on
the effectiveness of their model.
Sopris West
Since 1980 Sopris has been using research to provide "best practice"
resources, information on current educational issues (behavior management,
character education, social skills and conflict resolution), and resources
on reaching students who are "tough to teach."
Teachable Moment
Topical activities for the K - 12 classroom by Educators for Social Responsibility,
Metropolitan Area (New York City).
Teaching ideas, lesson plans, discussion topics and other ideas for guiding critical thinking on issues of current world events, conflict resolution, and intercultural understanding.
Activities for elementary, middle and high school classrooms, also ideas and essays for teachers for plagiarism, politics in the classroom, etc.
Teaching for Change
Tools to "transform schools into socially equitable centers of learning
where students become architects of a better future."
The resource section Teaching about War was created summer of 2006 at the time of the war between Israel and Lebanon.
A Foot in Both Places
An interactive educational toolkit built around 25 interviews with Arab, South Asian, and Muslim community activists. It features stories, photographs, music, games and more.Rethinking Schools: Teaching about the War
A collection of articles and resources for classroom teachers on the war in Iraq, as well as issues of armed conflict and society's priorities.Behind the Headlines
A website created by Teaching for Change, features teaching tools, resources, and alternative news outlets on 9/11, the war on Iraq, and related issues.Mixed Signals
A counter-recruitment tool in comic book form. It contains specific information on the enlistment contract and proposes alternative sources of college money, job training, and non-violent forms of community service.
Tolerance.org:
Teaching Tolerance
"Fight hate and promote tolerance - a web project of the Southern
Poverty Law Center."
This site is for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating communities that value diversity. (Free curriculum kits available to school professionals.)
Classroom activities include many plans that are searchable by grade, academic subject and topic.
YES!
For Teachers
"Bringing powerful ideas and practical actions to classrooms nationwide" from the print and online magazine YES!
Videos
Telling stories of social change.Films
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Bullying from the National Criminal Justice System Reference Service has publications and related links.
Bullying.org
This site is a clearinghouse for a variety of full-text resources, including
articles, research reports, laws and policies, projects, and lesson plans
and surveys.
Center for Mental Health Resources
in Schools. UCLASchool Mental Health Project.
A number of center-developed resources and tools (including a "Quik
Training Aid: Bullying Prevention" curriculum), as well as many
other relevant publications on the internet. To access: Go to the home
page, click on "Search & QuikFind" on the menu on the
left, scroll down the center drop-down list and click on "Bullying."
Committee for Children
Articles about bullying.
Stop Bullying Now!
This site presents a variety of resources, many full-text. The site sponsors
a particular book and program.
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Center for the Study and Prevention
of Violence (CSPV)
CSPV provides resources on understanding and preventing violence, focusing
originally on adolescent violence.
Many Fact Sheets are available in html and/or pdf format, covering topics such as: gangs and other forms of youth violence.
Mediawise
An initiative of the National Institute on Media and the Family, providing
research, education and advocacy, along with movie and video games ratings
and many online tools and resources.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
(NCJRS)
This site is administered by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Dept.
of Justice.
Use the A-Z topical index under Juvenile Justice, Schools, School Safety,
Delinquency Prevention, etc. for reports, research, and articles.
Keyword search available within topics.
Peace and Justice Support Network of the Mennonite Church USA
Resources for children
Interactive as well as print surveys on response styles to conflict.Resources for youth
Activities, conflict response questionnaires, draft information for youth.
Peace Support Network
"The Peace Support Network is an intentional linking of people throughout the world who believe in peace and who want to make peace a reality.Our services are free, open to everyone, and rely on the contributions of people who are willing to share their stories in the adventure of peacemaking. This exchange of information engages a creative power so expansive that all have the chance to build peace through the five major content areas of peace with God, self, relationships, society, and the planet."
Peace Video Collection, formed from a YouTube contest.
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Voices of Civil Rights
This site is a joint project of AARP, the Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress collecting personal
stories of activists from 1945-1975. The site extends beyond this time
period, as an opening video invites the viewer to “join us to create
the world’s largest archive of firsthand accounts of the struggle
for human rights…”
Voices includes accounts of activists from many reform movements: African American, American Indian, Chicano, gay, environmental, and women.
Historical perspectives include a timeline from 1868 to the present, “Voices of Civil Rights Music Video,” as well as photos.
Civil Rights Today features stories of contemporary activists and issues.
We Shall Overcome:
Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
This National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
site is produced by the National Park Service. It offers a guide to 49
historic sites in 21 states. Each site has a page with commentary and
photographs, as well as contact information.
Provides links to other Civil Rights Movement Resources on the Web. (Scroll down on page titled: "Learn More" to get to this section.)
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