PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
UNDERSTANDING PEACE EDUCATION
1. Rethink the War and Dominance Paradigms
2. Create Concentric Circles for Positive Peace
3. Enhance Holistic Peace Thinking
4. Create a Violence Tree: Track Everyday Acts of Indirect and Direct
Violence
5. Map Peace and Violence Toward Local Change
6. Conduct a Webbing Exercise: Know that Violence Impacts us All
7. Make Meaningful Contact and Reduce Conflict
8. Understand How Oppression Sparks Violence
9. Learn Lessons about Peaceful Coexistence from Integrated Schools
10. Promote Peace Leadership: Adopt Transformative Values and
Capacities
11. Understand the Role of Peace Education
12. Search for Forgiveness as Part of Reconciliation
13. Redefine the Purposes of School and Emphasize Universal
Love, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
14. Move Toward a Critical Peace Education
15. Join the Dance of Diversity and Unity for Peace
16. Identify Role Models of Peaceful Right Action
17. Research Female Role Models of Peace
18. Learn about the Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981)
19. Understand How Memories Can Undermine Reconciliation
20. Teach about Threat and Challenge
BEING PEACE
21. Perk Up, Lean In, and Stay Centered
22. Overcome Prejudice and Practice Loving-Kindness Meditation
23. Find Peace Within: A Guided Meditation
24. Think Peace with Every Step and Raise Awareness
25. Counteract Compassion Fatigue with Tonglen Practice
26. Being Peace: Walking the Labyrinth
27. Explore Pacifism
DOING PEACE
28. Understand the Types of Peace Education
29. Study Lessons from a Divided Society Moving toward Peace
PEACE KEEPING
30. It Is Our Job to Transform Conflict
31. Question the Conflict-Education Connection
32. Retake Ownership of Conflicts
33. Remove Weapons
PEACEMAKING
34. Honor the Wisdom of the Peacemaking Circle and the Way of Council
35. Reframe Disruptions as Opportunities to Build Peacemaking
Capacities
36. Learn from Others Who Have Experience with Violence
37. Dig for a Deeper Peace
38. Employ Patience and Perseverance for Peace
39. Make Peace with Fears and Get Involved
40. Study the Natural World for Insights into Peacemaking
PEACE BUILDING
41. Build Empathy for Intercultural Peace: Use Position-Taking
Introductions
42. Eat Together and Celebrate Common Ground for Peaceful Coexistence
43. Cultivate a Sense of Universal Responsibility for Building Peace
44. Prevent Violence and Build Capacity for Peace
45. Create Hands of Heroes and Share Ideas for a Peaceful Future
46. Master the Basics of Peacemaking
47. Create Learning Communities for Peace and Reconciliation
48. Develop "True Dialogue" for Deeper Communication and Greater Caring
49. Develop Deep Listening as a Peacemaking Skill
50. Learn to Express Empathically
51. Use Consensus to Fully Explore Alternatives
52. Investigate Programs that Further Peace and Reconciliation
53. Create Soldiers of Peace and Reconciliation
54. Build Something Out of the Ashes of Violence
55. Drink Three Cups of Tea for Peaceful Coexistence
CELEBRATING PEACE
56. Create Your Own Nobel Peace Prize
57. Study and Re-Create the Symbols of Peace
UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT BELIEF AND FAITH SYSTEMS
58. Keep the Faith about Peace and Reconciliation
59. Utilize Contemplative Practices in Counseling and Education
60. Emulate Some Quaker Peace Practices
61. Create a Clearness Committee
UNDERSTANDING CONFLICT AND RESTORATIVE PRACTICES
62. Shift from Retributive to Restorative Justice as a Means of
Reconciliation
63. Forgive and Honor Memories
64. Imagine Possibilities and Act
65. Restore Hope and Instill Motivation
66. Help Restore Happiness and Create Fulfilling Lives
67. Understand Indigenous Conceptions of Caring
68. Promote Restorative Justice and Violence Reduction
69. Practice Ifoga and Promote Reconciliation
70. Establish Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
71. Remember the Past and Do Something to Promote Reconciliation
72. Maintain Positive and Peaceful Relationships
73. Reconcile and Restore
74. Differentiate between Wants and Needs
75. Challenge the Language of Conflict
76. Find Peace in Every Patch of Natural Area
77. Take the Third Side
SEEING INTERCONNECTIONS
78. Multiculturalism as a Perspective on Human Life
79. Understand Critical Multiculturalism as a Response to Cultural
Diversity
80. Unpack White Privilege: The Inner Circle
81. Challenge the Essentialization of Identity
82. Understand Identity and Conflict
83. Promote an Anti-Bias (ABC) Approach
84. Use a Prejudice Awareness Exercise
85. Work towards Deconstructing Identity in Conflict and Post-Conflict
Societies
86. Understand Curriculum and Transformative Citizenship
87. Comfort and Empower with a Cultural Blanket
88. Create Non-Dominating and Peaceful Relationships
89. Use Internet-Based Networks to Promote Peace and Reconciliation
90. Understand Dominance and Address the Color-blind Perspective
91. Apply the Pedagogy of Architecture
92. Understand How Food Connects Us across Every Divide
BUILDING A POSITIVE CLIMATE AND SUPPORTING COOPERATION
93. Fall into Trust
94. Establish a Language for Trust
95. Collaborate and Contribute
96. Be, Live and Learn in Peaceful Relationships
97. Build and Sustain Peaceful Networks
DEVELOPING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
98. Address Emotional Intelligence and Development
99. Correct Misplaced Aggression in the Media
100. Transform Motivation into Constructive Change
101. Rethink Revenge
102. Listen to Veterans Talk about Peace
103. Take an International Perspective
ENCOURAGING CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT ALTERNATIVES
TO VIOLENCE
104. Provide a Bird’s Eye View of Conflict and Interpersonal Relationships in
Literature: Use the Drama Triangle
105. Use the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(UNDHR)
106. Identify Points in Literature where Ego and Status Quo Are Threatened
107. Use an Advance Organizer for Peace and Reconciliation
108. Enhance "Perspective Consciousness" about Diverse Views
109. Practice Best-Case Thinking about Peace and Reconciliation
110. Understand Learning Style Preferences for Peacemaking
111. Use Cooperative, Experiential and Student-Centered Approaches
112. Explore the Sounds of Peace
113. Use Inductive Thinking to Re-Think Problems
114. Explore Critical and Controversial Issues
115. Get Past Your Biases and Open Up to New Insights
116. Construct, Deconstruct, and Reconstruct Attitudes
117. Hear and Respect Other Voices
118. Confront the Violence in Language
119. Explore Shakespeare
120. Make Peace with the Planet
121. Question Reality and Accept Responsibility
PROMOTING CREATIVITY
122. Use Stories to Engage and Teach
123. Use "Sculpting Reality" and "Utopia" to Generate New Insights
124. Create "Spect-Actors" to Explore New Insights
125. Use Performance to Engage Audiences
126. Take the Bus
127. Drumming for Peace: Health and Music Therapy
USING A DEVELOPMENTAL AND VALUES PERSPECTIVE
128. Take a Developmental Approach
129. Examine Values
130. Identify Contradictions
131. Insist on Integrity
UNDERSTANDING AND BUILDING CURRICULUM
132. Understand Curriculum Development
133. Deepen Learning within the Cognitive Domain
134. Understand Engagement, Values and the Affective Domain
135. Be Mindful about Action
136. Use Film for Multi-Sensory Representations of Peace and
Reconciliation
137. Include Diverse Voices and Social Action
138. Transform the Canon
STUDYING CHANGE AND TAKING INITIATIVE FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
139. Look Locally and Take Action
140. Provide a Suitcase of Hope
141. Design a Peace Park
142. Help People Face the Reality of Violence and War
143. Take a Public Stand on Peace and Reconciliation
144. Become a Servant Leader for Peace and Reconciliation
145. Study Connectedness and Promote Peaceful Change
146. Make Continuous Improvement toward Peace and Reconciliation
147. Keep on Walking
POSTSCRIPT
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
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