This video from Edutopia.org features an elementary school in Brooklyn where fourth and fifth graders help younger students resolve conflicts. The Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility has developed a step-by-step guide that educators can use to create their own Peace Helpers program, as shown in the video.

This video is an example of marketing materials used to promote and support peace studies programming at the community college level. It features the program at Greenfield Community College. It compliments the chapter “How to Market your Peace, Justice and Conflict Management Studies Program” written by Abbie Jenks, part of the Manual for Community Colleges Developing Programs in Peace & Conflict Studies available via CREducation.

In August of 2009 Mediation Services of Maui premiered a new video supporting peer mediation program development. In “Don’t Give In to the Drama,” Maui High School students provide a step-by-step demonstration of mediation with peers. Encouraging commentary is provided by two young narrators explaining key aspects of the process. The video was written and directed by Kim Compoc, Mediation Services of Maui’s youth director, and produced at Maui High. The video is reality based, both in its attention to Hawaii culture and in using situations that the students came up with through brainstorming about their own experiences and observations. It has been posted to YouTube (broken into 4 parts) and will be distributed via DVD to high schools in Maui.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

As part of the National Writing Project, a group of Marsh Junior High eighth-grade peer mediators from Chico, California embarked on a journey of exploration and discovery to find their voices and become agents of change. Here’s a video documenting some of what went on.

This short video, from the Looseleaf Report video podcast found on Aftered.tv, illustrates some of the challenges related to keeping qualified teachers.

The non-profit JAMS Foundation has provided a $300,000 grant that is funding a two-year initiative that enables Conflict Resolution Education for student teachers and in-service teachers to expand in four major U.S. cities. To operate the initiative, the JAMS Foundation is collaborating with three organizations: Temple University’s Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education (CRETE) program, nonprofit Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) and nonprofit Creative Response to Conflict (CRC). This video provides a look at some of the work being done.