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Lesson Plans

1. Aftermath of War and World Peace (San Diego County Office of Education)
   Provides a lesson based on a book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, about the aftermath of war for a child.
2. Conflict Resolution Skills (StarkNet)
   Provides exercises to improve conflict resolution skills. Has activities identified with Language Arts, Social Science and Science, but actually the work is appropriate across subjects.
3. Holocaust - Lessons for Grades K - 4 (Stahl)
   Provides lessons for grades K - 4 to help children appreciate differences and avoid prejudice and stereotypes that led to the holocaust. Does not recommend teaching about the actual holocaust before the fifth grade. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost. 5-00
4. Holocaust - Lessons for Grades K - 8 (State of New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education)
   Provides lessons for grades K - 8 to help children appreciate differences and avoid prejudice and stereotypes that led to the holocaust. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost. 5-00
5. USA and China Meet Over Plane Collision (CNN)
   Provides lessons for studying the relationship between the USA and China in terms of international politics. 5-01
6. World Peace Summit (PBS)
   Provides a lesson on world peace by setting up a student summit to discuss issues. 11-01

Lists

1. Aung Suu Kyi Resources
2. Cultural Diversity and Early Education (National Academy of Sciences - Phillips and Crowell)
   Provides "research literature that bears on the early education of culturally and linguistically diverse populations of children." 2-00
3. Freshwater - International Freshwater Conflict Prevention (Green Cross International)
   Provides sources of information on the availability of freshwater globally and identifies the areas of conflict, along with the intensity of conflict. Suggests approaches to preventing or easing conflict. 12-01
4. Globalization Challenges (International Peace and Security Program)
   Provides papers that explore the strengths and weakenesses of globalization.
5. International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library - Selcher)
   Provides over 2200 carefully selected, annotated links in 37 international affairs categories. 2-02
6. International Relations (Windmueller)
   Provides a dozen resources related to international conflict resolution or promoting peace.
7. Middle East Peace and Human Rights Groups (Brooks)
   Provides dozens of groups that are working toward peace and cultural understanding in Israel and Palistine. 2-01
8. Mother Teresa Resources (Al maz Enterprises)
   Provided links to a short biography, books about Mother Teresa, books by Mother Teresa, photo essays, and other links. Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997 at the age of 87.
9. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates - Listed Alphabetically
   Provides information on each of the Nobel Peace Prize winners, going back to 1901.
10. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates - Listed By Year
    Provides information on each of the Nobel Peace Prize winners, starting with 1997.
11. One Day of Peace (One Day in Peace)
    Provides activities, such as proclamations that can be initiated by classrooms, to support one day of peace. 11-99
12. Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center
13. Peace and Conflict Resolution (Yahoo)
    Provides dozens of resources related to conflict resolution or promoting peace.
14. Peace and Conflict Resources (Contamine)
    Provides organizations and Web sites devoted to peaceful resolution of conflicts.
15. Volunteering - International Opportunities
    The Directory on International Voluntary Services provides hundreds on sources of information. 7-99
16. World Peace Organizations (Norbert)
    Provides Web links to organizations working for world peace, by location of conflict. 6-99
17. World Peace Resources (UNESCO - Culture of Peace)
    Provides sources of information and projects to support world peace. 12-01

Materials

1. -Bias, Prejudice and Attitudes (IAT Corp and Tolerance.org - Greenwald and Banaji)
   Provides a test of attitudes regarding age, race, gender, and obesity. Your responses are measured by your speed of associations. Most of us do have biases (preferences) that may conflict with our values. Biases can work invisibly and give us a tendency to treat others unfairly (with prejudice). By uncovering our biases, we can combat our prejudices more effectively.
2. Cards - World Peace Cards (123Greetings.com)
   Provides four cards for world peace. 11-01
3. Map of the Middle East During World War I (Lavarone)

News

1. Children - State of the World's Children (Unicef)
   Provides a summary of the status of children worldwide in terms of education, disease, and preventable death. The news is not good. 12-99
2. Dalai Lama Peace Message on March 10 (Awesome Library)
   Provides a message for world peace from H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Nobel Peace Laureate. 3-02
3. Human Rights and Sustainable Development (oneworld.net)
   Provides news and projects related to human rights and sustainable development efforts to protect the environment.

Papers

1. Atom Bomb Survival (Kajiya - Hayashi)
   Provides a first hand account of an atom bomb explosion. The speaker recounts the experience from the first grade. 6-99
2. Aung Suu Kyi - Interview (Free Burma Coalition)
   Aung San Suu Kyi, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, speaks to youth about issues such as power and freedom.
3. Banning Landmines, Treaty of Oslo
4. Bridging the Digital Divide (BBC)
   Provides facts about how access to the Internet is shaping up globally, with very few in poorer economies having access.
5. Carter Center Efforts by Country
   Describes health, economic, political, and mediation efforts of the Carter Center in each country where civil war, ethnic conflicts, or economic deprivations are rampant.
6. Conversations with History (UC Berkeley - Institute of International Studies)
   Provides Provides transcripts of interviews of key international figures regarding key world developments. The interviews are conducted by Harry Kreisler. 8-99
7. Essay - Democracy and Transnational Corporations (Policy Alternatives - Dobbin)
   Argues that transnational corporations have purchased control of the democratic process whenever they needed the control. 3-02
8. Essays on World Peace (FutureNet.org)
   Provides essays on building world peace. 12-01
9. Ethics - Encouraging Ethical Reflection (SUNY - Lickona)
   Provides examples of how children can reveal their stages of ethical development through responding to hypothetical ethical problems in an interview format.
10. Explaining War to Teens (Edu-Leadership.com)
    Provides one parent's attempt to talk to his teens about war and its justification. 7-01
11. Flags of World Peace - By Children (United Nations and International Olympic Committee)
    Shows pictures of flags drawn by children to depict world peace. 10-01
12. Freshwater - International Freshwater Conflict (Green Cross International - Samson and Charrier)
    Describes the availability of freshwater globally and identifies the areas of conflict, along with the intensity of conflict. Suggests approaches to preventing or easing conflict. 12-01
13. Freshwater - International Freshwater Conflict Prevention (Nobel Laureates 2000, Green Cross International - Peres and Gorbachev)
    "There is one salient fact that overrides all others in the 21st century: Today's 6 billion people -- projected to grow to 8 billion within the next 25 years -- must share the same amount of water on this planet shared by less than one-sixth that many before the turn of the 19th century."
    
    "In the past 10 years the various states in the Middle East have spent billions to acquire arms instead of building water pipelines or finding ways to conserve, clean and use water more efficiently on a shared, regional basis."
    
    "We all know that deserts create poverty, and that poverty often leads to war -- especially when everyone is armed to the teeth. But missiles in an armed desert can't carry water any more than minefields can stop pollution from crossing borders."
    
    "The alternative to another round of conflict, this time over water instead of land, is cooperation. Desalinization or joint management is cheaper than launching wars for rivers." 12-01
14. Gandhi's Grandson - An Interview (Adams)
    Provides an interview with Rajmohan Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, on how to achieve world peace.
15. Genocide (PBS Frontline)
    Describes the crime of genocide, the attempt to destroy an ethnic group.
16. Global Peace News (Human Rights Watch)
    Provides news on progress in supporting human rights globally. "Human Rights Watch works to end...summary executions, torture, arbitrary detention, restrictions on the freedom of expression, association, assembly and religion, violations of due process, and discrimination on racial, gender, ethnic and religious grounds. The standards we use are universal civil and political rights as embodied in international laws and treaties. 7-99
17. Globalism - Arguments Against Current Trends (Global Exchange- Powell and Udayakumar)
    "This article, then, is not an attack on globalism per se but on the excess and undemocratic nature of the U.S.-style globalism popular now, which is particularly hostile to people of color and other marginal groups. This style of globalism disempowers average Americans in every way, except as consumers."
18. Globalization Issues (About.com - Porter)
    Discusses the pros and cons of globalization and "Americanization." "Globalization will always have cheerleaders who are blind to the destruction globalization can cause. And it will always have strident opponents blind to the way globalization gives some people their first opportunity to fulfill basic aspirations."
     "As with most issues, the majority of people will be in the middle. They will see globalization not as something to worship or demonize. Instead, they will see it as something to mold, shape and manage for the betterment of everyone." 12-01
19. Globalization and Cultural Diversity (Cultural Collaboratory - Breidenbach and Zukrigl)
    Argues that globalization may create new and healthy forms of cultural diversity. 1-02
20. Globalization and Poverty (Globalizaiton Website)
    Discusses whether globalization causes poverty. 1-02
21. Heroines of Peace (The Nobel Foundation)
    Provides the story on nine women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, including Mother Teresa.
22. Holocaust - Answers to 36 Questions - High School Level (Wiesenthal Center)
    Provides answers to 36 frequently asked questions about the holocaust. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost. 5-00
23. Holocaust - Teaching Guidelines - High School Level (Wiesenthal Center - Weitzman)
    Provides guidelines on how to discuss the issues of the holocaust with students. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost. 5-00
24. Holocaust - Teaching Guidelines for Grades K - 4 (Florida Center for Instructional Technology)
    Provides guidelines for teaching topics that lead up to discussion of the holocaust in the eighth grade through high school. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost. 5-00
25. Human Rights Declaration of the UN (United Nations)
    Provides the declaration of universal human rights. 5-01
26. Human Rights Policy Recommendations (Human Rights Watch)
    Provides usggestions to improve human rights within the USA and globally.
27. Human Rights Record of Nations in 1999 (Human Rights Internet)
    Provides a record of findings on human rights of nations in 1999. The report is called For the Record and is available in PDF format. 5-01
28. Ideas for World Peace (Waging Peace - Kreiger)
    Provides 100 ideas to make the world a better place. 10-01
29. Indigenous Peoples (Center For World Indigenous Studies)
    "The Fourth World Documentation Project is an online library of texts which record and preserve our peoples' struggles to regain their rightful place in the international community."
30. Jihad Vs. McWorld (TheAtlantic.com - Barber)
    Presents world politics as a contest between between alternative world views, the Western vision of globalization (or McWorld) versus the movement back to tribal communities (or Jihad). Argues that neither approach necessarily supports democracy but that democracy can be fostered within both approaches. (This was written in 1995.) 10-01
31. Jordan - H.M. Queen Noor (The Hashemite Royal Court of Jordan)
    Provides a resume of Queen Noor, including her work for world peace, world hunger and the environment.
32. Kniting Project (PeaceFleece.com)
    Describes a project to help refugees of Kosovo to find meaning and some income by providing them with the tools for kniting. 1-01
33. Landmines - Banning (International Campaign to Ban Landmines)
    Calls for "An international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel landmines."
34. Landmines - Campaign to Ban (V. V. A. F.)
    Provides information on what you can do to help ban landmines. 10-00
35. Landmines - Online Petition to Ban
    Provides information on what you can do to help ban landmines.
36. Landmines - Survivors Network (LandmindSurvivors.org)
    Provides information on helping survivors and supporting the removal of landmines.
37. Landmines Ban (The Hashemite Royal Court of Jordan - Noor)
    Calls for an end to landmines. 1-02
38. Landmines in Afghanistan (BBC News - George)
    Describes the landmine situation in Afghanistan and provides a chart comparing it with other countries with landmines. 12-01
39. Leyla Zana Biography (Kurdistan Information Center)
    Provides a short biography of the Kurdish activist. 9-01
40. Listening with Compassion (Positive Futures Network - Thorene)
    Provides an example of how people from opposite sides can be brought together and begin a process of reconciliation. 1-00
41. Muslim Rage (Awesome Library)
    Discusses the sources of Fundamentalist Muslim rage against the United States. (Notes that many Muslims are very sympathic with the United States.) 10-01
42. National Missile Defense (PBS NewsHour)
    Provides different perspectives on the USA missile defense strategies, including the ABM Treaty. 7-01
43. National Missile Defense - Death of the ABM Treaty (BBC News)
    Provides a short statement against the Bush administration's proposal to break the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. 7-01
44. National Missile Defense - Global Nuclear Arsenel (BBC News)
    Describes how many nuclear warheads each country has and the distance it can deliver them. 7-01
45. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates for 2001 (BBC News)
    Describes why the United Nations and its Secretary General, Kofi Annan, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2001.
46. Organizations for Preventing Conflict and Warfare (Forum on Early Warning and Early Response)
    Provides organizations by region. 1-02
47. Palestinian Perspective on the Peace Process
48. Peace - Nobel Laureates Since 1900 (Nobel Foundation)
    Provides short biographies of the Nobel laureates in peace during the 20th century. 9-00
49. Peace Across Cultures (WisdomWorks.net)
    Provides information and highlights related to the video "Tutu and Franklin, A Journey Toward Peace." Includes discussions between Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr. John Hope Franklin. 2-01
50. Peace Brigades International
    "Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) which protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts." 2-02
51. Peace Heroes (Waging Peace)
    Provides short profiles of individuals who have contributed to world peace. 10-01
52. Peace Plan (Commonway.org)
    Provides an outline of the Sarvodaya People's Peace Plan for Sri Lanka, based on creating a peace rather than winning a war. 11-00
53. Peace Symbols (PlanetPals.com)
    Provides words and images related to peace. 10-01
54. Poverty for Children (UNICEF)
    Summarizes the condition of 100 million children who must grow up alone, without adult support or care. 2-00
55. Preventing Conflict and Warfare by Region (Forum on Early Warning and Early Response)
    Provides historical context and analysis of regions of conflict in order to prevent further conflict or warfare. Uses PDF format. 1-02
56. Programs - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
57. Rights - Human Rights and Constitutional Law (Columbia Law School - McKeever and Rosenbaum)
    Provides information on efforts to protect human rights by country, nationality, region, program, and other criteria.
58. Romero, Oscar (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - Johnson)
    Provides a short biography of the Catholic Archbishop who fought for peace and the poor in El Salvador. 12-00
59. Russia and Human Rights (Amnesty Interrnational - USA)
    Provides a summary of findings on violations of human rights by Russia. 7-01
60. Rwanda Genocide (PBS Frontline)
    Provides history of events on how genocide in Rwanda was ignored. Question - How can genocide, holocausts, be avoided in the future. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost.
61. Rwanda Genocide - Who Was Responsible (PBS Frontline)
    Provides history of events on how genocide in Rwanda was ignored. Question - How can genocide, holocausts, be avoided in the future. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost.
62. Rwanda Girl Who Refused to Die (PBS Frontline)
    Provides the story of one girl who survived a massacre.
63. Sustainable Planet (Awesome Library - Adams)
    Describes the most important few things that can be done to reduce pollution, reduce global warming, and save our forests, as well as improve the availability of drinkable water for the future. 11-00
64. U.N. Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF)
    Provides the Conventions on the Rights of the Child.
65. U.N. Conventions on the Rights of the Child - Commentary (UNICEF)
    Provides a summary of the provisions of the Conventions on the Rights of the Child and comments on criticisms of the proposal.
66. UN Criticizes USA for Racial Discrimination (United Nations Committee to End Racial Discrimination)
    Provides a summary of UN findings against the United States.
67. United Nations Millennium Summit (United Nations)
    Provides coverage for the meetings of the heads of state meeting to discuss plans for peace. 9-00
68. Water Disputes and Peace (The Hashemite Royal Court of Jordan - Noor)
    Calls for a plan to prevent water disputes from resulting in warfare. 10-01
69. Williams - Jody, Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 1997
    Provides links regarding Jody Williams and her work that won her co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for helping ban landmines throughout the world.
70. World Citizen - One Person's Goal (International Herald Tribune)
    Describes efforts by Garry Davis to become an official citizen of the world rather than a citizen of one country. 11-01

Projects

1. -Organizations for Peace (Idealist)
   Action Without Borders includes a searchable listing of 14,000 organizations devoted to world peace.
2. Activities for Youth for World Peace (Peace Corps)
   "Kids are changing the world every day, by getting involved in their own communities and even around the world. Here are some of their stories -- and we hope you'll share with us some of your ideas about making a difference." 2-02
3. Activities for Youth for World Peace (WorldPeace.org - Peace Pals)
   "The Peace Pals Program fosters understanding and respect for the diversity and oneness of the human family and the natural world through the arts, education, communication and friendship. By nurturing inner peace and global awareness in the leaders of tomorrow, Peace Pals will help create a future where peace and harmony become a way of life." 2-02
4. Activities for Youth for World Peace (WorldPeace.org - Youth for Peace)
   Provides ideas for youth to participate in activities to support world peace. 2-02
5. Bridging the Digital Divide (Technology Access Foundation)
   Provides projects and opportunities to assist ethnic minorities to gain greater access to the Internet and technology.
6. Citizenship - Teaching Citizenship's Five Themes (Education World - Hopkins)
   Provides suggestions for teaching children skills in honesty, compassion, respect, responsibility and courage.
7. Discussion Skills (Stanford)
   Provides extensive exercises to help adolescents learn conflict management skills.
8. Exhortations for a Better World (Muller)
   Provides nineteem exhortations on what to decide in order to have a better world for ourselves and for the world.
9. Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance (Southern Poverty Law Center - Tolerance.org)
   Provides activities for countering hate groups and for promoting tolerance. 4-01
10. Ideas and Dreams for Peace (Muller)
    Provides 2000 ideas and dreams for world peace.
11. Local World Peace (Season for Nonviolence)
    Provides information, events, and activities for promoting world peace at a local level through nonviolent actions. Based on the work of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. 7-99
12. Meditation and Prayer on New Year's Eve (Institute for World Peace)
    Provides a specific 30 minute period for all peoples of the earth to pray or meditate at the same time, perhaps the first global event. 11-99
13. Multicultural - Grade 10 - 12 Integrating Global Education (Peace Corps)
    Provides educational materials on an international basis.
14. Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Page (Partage Avec les Infants du Monde)
    Provides an annotated listing of Laureates by year.
15. Peace on Earth Millennium - A Guide (People for Peace Project)
    "We all wish for peace on earth. If it doesn't seem that we've come any closer, it's because our society doesn't yet think it's possible."
16. Teaching Conflict Management (Stanford)
    Provides extensive exercises to help adolescents learn conflict management skills.
17. Teens - Organizations for Peace (Idealist)
    Action Without Borders includes volunteer opportunities for teens from among 14,000 organizations devoted to world peace.
18. World Trek - Odyssey
    The mission is "To educate youth about diverse communities around the world, to empower youth through service learning to change locally and globally, and to actively engage students and teachers in the use of emerging technologies as a tool for education and social action. In service of this mission, the Odyssey will link students via the World Wide Web to a team of volunteers traveling and performing community service throughout the world."
19. World Wise Schools (Peace Corps)
    Provides educational materials on an international basis.

Purchase Resources

1. Theatre - A thousand Cranes (Miller)
   Provides a script and instructions for a children's play about the aftermath of war for a child. The script costs 5.50

Worksheets

1. Peace Activities for Young Children (AbcTeach)
   Provides worksheets to help children appreciate the need for peace. 8-01