Resources for Teaching K-12 Students About Peace

The Hague Appeal for Peace: Learning to Abolish War
The website offers books for purchase which include lessons plans for elementary, middle, and secondary grades on roots of war, human rights, conflict resolution, and disarmament.

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
The site includes free guides to effective social and emotional learning programs such as the CASEL Guide to Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs.
http://www.casel.org

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

Facing History
There are resources here for teaching about racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism.

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. 

National Peace Academy
Peace, Peacebuilding and Peacelearning: A Holistic Introduction

The Conflict Resolution Education Connection
Resources for Teachers

Southern Poverty Law Center
Teaching Tolerance

Engaging Schools

Global Peacebuilding Center at USIP
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