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The Road to Peace: A Teaching Guide on Local and Global Transitional Justice


rtrpcover2_4This teaching guide contains ten lesson plans on conflict resolution and restoration of justice in the aftermath of war.  The Road to Peace teaches about justice on a local and international scale, asking students to make connections between instances of justice and injustice in their own lives, and in situations where justice has been or is being threatened in other countries.  Click here to learn more or to download The Road to Peace.


Peace One Day Education

School Children learning about PeacePeace One Day Education aims to advance active learning in the areas of conflict resolution, global citizenship, human rights and the link between sustainability and peace, using Peace Day 21st September as a focus.
Our goal is to provide resource materials to every school in the world, inspiring a generation to become the driving force behind the vision of a united and sustainable world.

POD Education Resources have been created with special reference to the UK and USA education systems. The resources contain two brand new lesson plans on the Influence of Celebrity and Working with Corporations, making a total of 19 student-centred lesson plans. Also included are Peace Day Projects, Cross-curricular Links, and video footage from The Day After Peace as well as messages of support.

Go to www.education.peaceoneday.org for more information.


Materials for All Levels, K-12

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Class on Nonviolence
A 12 week class on Nonviolence based on the readings in Colman McCarthy's "Solutions to Violence".

This Day in History
A calendar of important dates in peace and justice history.

Peace Heroes
Take this quiz and see how many peacemakers you can identify.

Conflict Resolution Education
This site has materials on pedagogy as well as lesson plans that may be searched by audience (grade level) and topics. You can browse for materials by clicking on “Teachers and Trainers” and then looking at the lists under “CRE Practices Descriptions” and “Learning Modules and Activities.” In order to conduct a search for materials by topic and grade level, click on “Resource Catalog” and then “Advanced Search.” You can get a good idea of what is available on the site by clicking “Browse” on the “Resource Catalog” page. It is not necessary to log in.

Educators for Social Responsibility Online Teacher Center
Classroom lessons and activities may be selected by grade level or by theme.

The Hague Appeal for Peace: Learning to Abolish War
Click on “Learning to Abolish War, Book 2” to see lessons plans for elementary, middle, and secondary grades on roots of war, human rights, conflict resolution, and disarmament.

Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management
This site includes lesson plans, suggestions for infusing conflict management skills into the classroom by subject areas, and other resources.

Teaching Tolerance Classroom Activities
This site has 250+ activities on conflict resolution, tolerance, and related topics that may be selected by grade level, academic subject, and topic.

United Nations Cyberschoolbus
The site has five units with lesson plans on tolerance, critical thinking, social justice, and global citizenship for children beginning with age 8.

Additional Materials for Elementary Grades and Middle School

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
The site includes links to sample class activities for social and emotional learning.

Heifer International Read to Feed Program
Free curriculum materials are available for teaching about the causes of hunger and poverty and depletion of the earth’s resources. Units on civics, science, geography, and economics are included.

Making Peace Where I Live
This site provides a description of a class activity in which children meet and interview peacemakers and peacekeepers in their own communities.

Additional Materials for Middle School and High School

Beyond Intractability
The site provides simulation exercises and a student resource center for investigating a full range of conflict topics.

Facing History
There are resources here for teaching about racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism. See the home page as well as “Lessons & Units” under “Online Campus.”

The Hague Appeal for Peace: Peace Lessons from Around the World
Click on “Peace Lessons from Around the World” for 16 lesson plans for high school students on the roots of war, human rights, conflict resolution, and disarmament.

Healing the Hate
This is a 218-page hate crime prevention curriculum for middle schools from The Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice. There are units on prejudice, conflict, racism, social change, etc. The pdf file may take several minutes to download. The table of contents is on page 8 of the pdf file. Add 8 to the page numbers shown in the table of contents to determine the pdf file page numbers.

Teaching Democracy
Click on “current issues” to see a list of topics with links for downloading free curriculum materials. With some computers it may be necessary to copy and paste the URLs for the curriculum materials from a downloaded Word document to your browser.

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
The site includes teaching guides for high school students on nine topics as well as ten simulations for high school or college levels.

United States Institute of Peace (USIP) National Peace Essay Contest
This describes and provides all the necessary materials for students to enter the national essay contest. There are 53 scholarships awarded each year to the winners.

San Antonio Peace Center
You can find a variety of peace quotes, a peace calendar, and a complete series of readings from Colman McCarthy's Alternatives to Violence series.

Institute for Peace and Justice

The Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ) is an independent, interfaith, not-for-profit organization that creates resources, provides learning experiences, and advocates publicly for alternatives to violence and injustice at the individual, family, community, institutional and global levels.

Kids as Peacemakers
Kids as Peacemakers is a community based group of individuals and organizations dedicated to the reduction of violence and fostering development of child-friendly communities.  Programs they are involved in include:
  • Kids As Peacemakers Mural Program
  • Holiday Gift Flyer
  • Violent Toy Turn-Ins
  • Family Play Days
The Appalachian Peace and Justice Network has a list of Resources for Educators that may be helpful if you are looking for resources to use in the classroom.

Teach Peace Foundation.  You can access over 100 'Watch Now' educational films related to war and peace. 

Peace Talks Radio offers a collection of interviews and classes on how individuals and ultimately nations can become more peaceful.

Educators for Nonviolence.  Our mission is to make the teaching and living of nonviolence part of mainstream education.  http://www.efnv.org/efnv/en/index.jsp

Soul of a Citizen

CLASSROOM USE &
ACADEMIC EXAM COPIES

Book Cover: Soul of a Citizen                           

How do we challenge our culture's pervasive cynicism? Paul Loeb presents an alternative vision of hope and courage in his book, SOUL OF A CITIZEN. Based on thirty years studying the psychology of social involvement, Loeb describes how ordinary citizens can make their voices heard and their actions count in a  time when we're often told neither matter.

This is the classroom page for Soul of a Citizen. Paul Loeb's new book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, now has its own classroom page, including faculty responses, classroom discussion questions and information on academic exam copies.

SOUL OF A CITIZEN: CLASSROOM USE

Now in its fifteenth printing, with 100,000 copies in print, Soul of a Citizen continues to generate exceptional responses at colleges and universities throughout the country, as well as many high schools. Students say it has inspired them to reflect on their own lives, challenge their powerlessness and cynicism, and move from passivity to participation. One group of college seniors said it was the only book in four years that had given them real hope.

Faculty are continuing to assign Soul of a Citizen, with outstanding results, in every academic discipline and at all levels. See study questions for questions developed for classroom discussion by faculty members who've been teaching the book throughout the country, and service learning projects for how courses are combining the book with community projects. Numerous colleges are assigning the book campus-wide, for all of their entering freshmen, in senior capstone programs, or in required service-learning courses. The book is inspiring thought and commitment at all levels of political and intellectual sophistication, from students who’ve never considered civic involvement, or for whom the classroom itself feels like foreign territory, to veteran activists and scholars.

FREE ACADEMIC EXAM COPIES
If you teach a class or supervise an educational program for which Soul of a Citizen would work, you can get a free academic examination copy by writing on school letterhead to St. Martin’s Press, academic marketing, 175 Fifth Avenue, 21st floor New York, NY 10010, faxing, again on letterhead, to 212-645-2610, or emailing academic@hholt.com. Please include your position, course title, and enrollment, as well as the book's title and ISBN, 0-312-20435-3.

SAMPLE STUDY QUESTIONS
See study questions for questions developed for classroom discussion by faculty members who've been teaching the book throughout the country. This page also includes a sample quiz used by a freshman comp instructor, and some of the excellent questions students who were reading  Soul of a Citizen prepared for me during a recent college visit in  Illinois.

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