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Resources for implementing Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) that are consistent with a Peace Literacy approach.

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Resources to accompany Peace Literacy Lesson Plan 1:

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• A ppt slide deck to work with elementary class kids, focused on the Anatomy of Aggression, designed by classroom teacher Joel Inman.

• A "StoryBird" about the Three Universal Elements of Respect to help kids doing group work in class, designed by one of our curriculum developers, classroom teacher Kim Cowperthwaite.

• A rubric for assessing skill development in Recognizing Aggression as a Distress Response.

 

Resources to accompany The Garden of Strong Community:

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• For Pre-K to Elementary Educatio: A How-To Video to accompany the Garden of Strong Community lesson, designed by Anna Clouse, a graduate of the Masters in Applied Ethics at Oregon State University showing how she used the Garden of Strong Community curriculum to teach young children about our non-physical needs during the pandemic.

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Books on Peace Literacy themes for kids 4-8yrs:

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• The Barnyard Buddies STOP for Peace, by Julie Penshorn

  Themes: Conflict resolution, calm, mindfulness

  Age Range: 3 - 9 years

  Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3

  Series: The Barnyard Buddies

  Hardcover: 32 pages

  Publisher: Smart Tools For Life; First Edition edition (July 6, 2017)

  Language: English

  ISBN-10: 0998869104

  ISBN-13: 978-0998869100

• The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind (Rise and Shine) Aesop’s Fable

retold by Heather Forest and illustrated by Susan Gaber

Themes: Wisdom, calm, and forethought vs. rashness, brute strength

Grade Level: Preschool - 3

Series: Rise and Shine

Hardcover: 32 pages 

Publisher: National Geographic School Pub; 1 edition (June 23, 2010) 

Language: English 

ISBN-10: 0874838320 

ISBN-13: 978-0874838329

• Moody Cow Meditates by K Lee MacLean

  Themes: Aggression, mindfulness, meditation, calm

  Age Range: 4 - 8 years

  Grade Level: Preschool and up

  Hardcover: 32 pages 

  Publisher: Wisdom Publications; 1 edition (September 1, 2009) 

  Language: English 

  ISBN-10: 086171573X 

  ISBN-13: 978-0861715732  

• When Sophie Gets Angry, by Molly Bang 

  Themes: Aggression, mindfulness, meditation, calm

  Age Range: 4 - 8 years

  Grade Level: Preschool - 3

  Hardcover: 31 pages

  Publisher: Blue Sky Press; 1st edition (March 1, 1999)

  Language: English

  ISBN-10: 0590189794

  ISBN-13: 978-0590189798

• Caren Stelson’s powerful books for children, including

  • Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story

  • A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story

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Resources for implementing Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) consistent with a Peace Literacy approach.

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Resources to accompany Peace Literacy Lesson Plan 1:

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• Middle School Level in-class activity on Animal Posturing to accompany Chappell's The End of War, prepared by Susan Radford

• A "StoryBird" about respect to help kids doing group work in class, designed by Kim Cowperthwaite.

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Resources to accompany the Navigating Crisis lessons:

(find these lessons by following the link to the curricular page for middle school and scroll to the end of the selections)

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• Here's an introductory how-to video to accompany the Navigating Crisis lesson, designed by Kim Cowperthwaite, showing how she taught the material remotely with her middle school students during the pandemic.

• and here’s her video to accompany the Navigating through the Storm lesson;

• her video for the Navigating Uncharted Waters lesson;

• and her video for the Navigating the Fog of the Digital World lesson.

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Resources to accompany Peace Literacy Lesson Plan 1:

• PPT slides for addressing the fires beneath aggression and cultivating calm, prepared by teachers from Corvallis, OR

• High School Level Writing Assignment for English classes, using Chappell's Soldiers of Peace, prepared by Krista Hensley (link TBA)

• High School Level Book Report Assignment/Template/Rubric for reading Chappell's Peaceful Revolution, prepared by Chris Mahon (link TBA)

• High School Level In-class Exercise for practicing the peace literacy skill of empathetic listening and reflecting on non-violence, prepared by Sharyn Clough (link TBA)

• High School Level Writing Topics based on Chappell's Road to Peace series, prepared by Krista Hensley (link TBA)

• High School Level Assignment for US History Classes using Chappell's Soldiers of Peace, prepared by Krista Hensley (link TBA)

• 6 PPT slides introducing the Peace Literacy Metaverse

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• College Level In-class Exercise for practicing the peace literacy skill of empathetic listening and reflecting on non-violence, prepared by Sharyn Clough (link TBA)

• College Level Writing Topics based on Chappell's Road to Peace series, prepared by Krista Hensley (link TBA)

• College Level Assignment for US History Classes using Chappell's Soldiers of Peace, prepared by Krista Hensley (link TBA)

• College Level Assignment for English Comp using Chappell's Soldiers of Peace, prepared by Krista Hensley (link TBA)

• College Level Writing Assignments for Eng 101 using Chappell's Soldiers of Peace, prepared by Krista Hensley (link TBA)

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Classroom materials for educators:

• Poster: Aggression and the Fires Burning Beneath, inspired by a design from Krista Hensley.

• Poster: Our 9 Non-Physical Needs

• You can find other posters and charts on our Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports page.

• The 4-Way Test for Transforming Conflict, pamphlet designed by Rotarian Action Group for Peace. For more on the 4-way test and other great Rotary Peace Resources, visit here: http://www.worldpeacepartners.org/resources.html

Reports from the Field:

• Educators report on teaching Peace Literacy in their classrooms:

  • Stephanie Clapes on teaching Peace Literacy in K-8 in New York

  • Susan Radford on teaching Peace Literacy in middle school in Washington

  • Trish Beckett on teaching Peace Literacy in high school in Wisconsin

  • Krista Hensley on teaching Peace Literacy in high school in Ohio

PLI Newsletters:

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2023: Winter, Summer

2022: New Year, Winter, Summer, Fall

2021: Summer, Fall

PLI Concept notes:

• Accelerating the UN Sustainable Development Goals through Peace Literacy

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Films featuring themes consistent with Peace Literacy:

• A Force More Powerful, a 1hr documentary about Gandhi and and Civil Rights era nonviolence strategy, available on Vimeo and here: www.aforcemorepowerful.org

• Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Mathaii's non-violent strategies for environmental advocacy are documented in Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Mathaii

• Animals posturing

  • Clash: Encounters of Bears and Wolves

  • Mother Elk / Mother Bear Posturing Against Hunting Wolves

  • Chimpanzees Posturing

• Humans posturing

  • With their characteristically brutal and incisive humor, comedy duo Key and Peele illustrate the human reluctance to engage in hostile aggression in “Hold Me Back” (Comedy Central)

• Trauma and other underlying fires that cause human aggression

  • Mike Tyson Interview (HBO Real Sports)

  • With their characteristically brutal and incisive humor, comedy duo Key and Peele illustrate the vulnerable emotional life of a bully in “School Bully” (Comedy Central)

  • Children Full of Life - a documentary from Japan showing how Mr. Kanamori, a teacher of a 4th grade class, teaches his students teamwork, community, the importance of openness, how to cope, and the harm caused by bullying

• Empathy building

  • Using infants to help elementary school children learn empathy: The Roots of Empathy Project

  • Using shelter dogs to help prisoners learn empathy:
    Dogs on the Inside - Trailer

• Using respect in policing

  • Segment from CBS, On the Road

• On dehumanization

  • British comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, portraying two German SS officers, who start out, like all of us, assuming they’re on the side of good. At some point they are no longer sure: “Are We the Baddies?”

  • “Don’t be a Sucker” was made by the US War Department in 1943 and is a short (17 mins) and skillful illustration of how dehumanization works and how to resist it.

  • Four Hours at My Lai A devastating look at the massacre committed by American soldiers during the Vietnam war, the men who participated, the dehumanization of the Vietnamese women and children, and the one man who intervened.

  • The Power of Music An American World War II Veteran talks about rehumanizing German soldiers

  • A Class Divided - Jane Elliot’s 1970 social experiment on dehumanization with her third grade class divided by eye-color.

• Changing minds by appealing to worldviews

  • Talking to conservative voters about climate change

• Strategy and discipline in the Civil Rights era protests as documented in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins (also from www.aforcemorepowerful.org beginning at 26:17)

 

Online resources:

• The Alternatives to Violence Project https://avpusa.org/

• American Friends Service Committee www.afsc.org

• Center for Nonviolent Communication https://www.cnvc.org/

• Center for Teaching Peace www.peaceed.org

• Christian Peacemaker Teams cpt@igc.org

• Circle of Insight www.circleofinsight.org

• Fellowship of Reconciliation www.forusa.org

• Institute for Economics and Peace www.economicsandpeace.org

• International Center on Nonviolent Conflict http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/Vision of Humanity www.visionofhumanity.org

• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, www.thekingcenter.org

• The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence www.gandhiinstitute.org; see also http://www.mkgandhi.org/

• The Nonviolent Peaceforce www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org

• Peacemakers Bibliography www.peacemakers.ca/bibliography/bib37nonviolentdirect.html

• The Peace People www.peacepeople.com

• Peace Talks Radio www.goodradioshows.org/

• Paul K Chappell, Peaceful Revolution www.paulkchappell.com

• Pace e Bene www.paceebene.org

• Roots of Empathy www.rootsofempathy.org

• Voices for Creative Nonviolence www.vcnv.org

• Waging Nonviolence www.wagingnonviolence.org

• War Resisters League www.warresisters.org

 

Scholarly articles by college faculty who teach Peace Literacy:

 

• Baesler, E. J., & Lauricella, S. (2013). “Reaching peace by teaching peace: Assessing instruction of the nonviolent communication and peace course.” Journal of Peace Education 10, 1-18.

• Baesler, E. J. (2017). “I’d rather teach peace: An autoethnographic account of the nonviolent communication and peace course.” Peace Studies Journal, 10(2), 71-75. http://peacestudiesjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/PSJ-Vol-10-Issue-2-July-20171.pdf

• Clough, Sharyn (Co-author, with Christian Matheis) 2022. “Peace Literacy, Public Philosophy, and Peace Activism,” for the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Public Philosophy. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 143-153.

• Clough, Sharyn. (2020). “Charity, Peace, and the Social Epistemology of Science Controversies.” In Social Epistemology and Relativism, co-edited by Natalie Ashton, Martin Kusch, Robin McKenna, and Katharina Sodoma. New York: Routledge.

• Clough, Sharyn. (2021). “Peace Literacy, Cognitive Bias, and Structural Injustice.” In Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education: Equity and Access in the College Classroom. Co-edited by Nana Osei-Kofi, Bradley Boovy, and Kali Furman. New York: Routledge.

(email sharyn.clough@oregonstate.edu for a copy of these essays).

 

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Articles by and/or interviews with Paul K. Chappell:

(there are lots of pieces to link here - more soon!)

• Interview with Paul K. Chappell in The Sun magazine, Nov. 2021

• Feature by Chappell in Thrive Global, Oct. 2017

• Interview with Chappell in Guernica  Magazine, June 2013

• Interview with Chappell in The Sun magazine, April 2011

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Stories from the popular press on themes of interest toPLI:

• April 2019, article in Wired magazine on the personal connections provided by virtual reality - showing how VR responds to our nonphysical need for belonging.

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