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The Peace Education Program has one, over-arching message for adults who participate in our conflict resolution programs: Believe in your young people. Time and again, your young people will rise to the occasion to show their innate sense of fairness when given the tools and the opportunity. Young people who argue and taunt can be calmed down and turned around by peers who are willing and able to pay attention to them. Mediation is a process that provides these tools for change.
The most successful mediation programs have a broad, school or community center wide program set up. The active support of teachers, youth workers and administrators who believe in the program is also essential. Some exposure to conflict resolution for all young people and a climate that says, "You can handle this!" round out a successful program. Our ultimate goal is to empower each young person to handle conflict relatively and to speak up constructively when they can help each other out.
The manual offers a set of lessons teaching the mediation process as well as some essential communication skills with lots of interaction and fun for your young people. We have always found that a lively, engaging approach is the best contradiction to everyone's anxiety and stubbornness about conflict.
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ChildsWork Childs Play
P O Box 760
Plainview, NY 11803
1-800-962-1141 |
National Coalition Building Institute
1120 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 450
Washington, D.C. 20036
1-202-785-9400 |
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Educators for Social Responsibility
23 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Teaching Tolerance
Southern Poverty Law Center
400 Washington Ave.
Montgomery, AL 36104
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Free Spirit Publishing
217 Fifth Ave North Suite 200
Minneapolis, MC 55401
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The Tolerance Project
City College of San Francisco
50 Phelan Ave.
San Francisco CA 94112
1-415-239-3000
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Violence Prevention Websites
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Suicide Prevention
Steve Ulrich
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Men Ending Violence Against Women
Rus Funk
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Youth Development
Darrell Aniton and Rebecca DeJarnett
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Youth Employment and Career Development
Huston Monarch
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Gun Violence Prevention
Luther Brown
National:
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National Campaign to Prevent Violence
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Stop the Killing
Gun Violence Prevention
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Health Equity
Darryl Turpin
Prejudice Reduction
NCBI (National Coalition Building Institute)
Media Violence Prevention
University of Cincinnati
College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services
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