Thematic Materials

Peace Education and Conflict Resolution

• The Conflict Resolution Information Source
  Browse (or search) summary articles, references recommended by our editors, and full listings of web, print, and organizational resources on more than 600 topics organized in four major categories with sub-topics and sub-sub-topics: Understanding Conflict, Types of Conflict, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Peace Processes, and Book and Article Summaries.
• Curricular Infusion and Integration
  Offers a table with some skills, knowledge, and attitudes that students need to learn for effective conflict resolution, plus ideas for incorporating them in language and other classes.
• Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR)
  ESR provides innovative curriculum materials and teacher training programs that focus on issues of peacemaking and conflict resolution. Free e-newsletter also available.
• Hague Appeal for Peace
  http://www.haguepeace.org/index.php?action=resourcesFree teaching ideas, publications and information in many languages on the topic of Peace Education.
• Language and Civil Society, Peace Education
  http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/journal/peaintro.htm language educators, we are constantly looking for engaging and meaningful topics to use in our language classrooms. Peace Education offers us topics and issues that touch the lives of our students every day such as resolving conflicts, clarifying values, and understanding diversity. The language classroom also offers us the opportunity to help students address these issues through activities and tasks that are related to the content and that require the practice of language skills, social interaction skills, and critical thinking skills. Questions commonly asked about Peace Education and its implementation in the language classroom along with some brief answers are answered here.
• Peace Education
  http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/home.asp Curriculumand theory on the integration of peace education into school curriculum for ages 8 and up, from the United Nations CyberSchoolBus.
• Peace Education for English Language Learners
  http://www.usip.org/class/guides/conflict.html The United States Institute of Peace has developed this guide on conflict resolution as a resource for students and educators to help students develop the skills necessary to negotiate the world and to be effective, responsible individuals.The guide is divided into five sections: trust building, defining conflict, prejudice awareness and reduction, communication, and conflict management. Each section focuses on one segment of conflict resolution. The concepts in the sections build on one another and work well when used in order. However, the guide is designed to be flexible, allowing educators to use activities as they see fit.