Art expression – Conflict Resolution Education Connection

Nonviolence History Coloring Pages

25 July 2025

In an effort to promote nonviolence education with people of all ages, Pace e Bene/Campaign Nonviolence has commissioned a series of coloring book pages that portray historic nonviolent struggles. So far, the collection includes:

Birmingham Children’s March, 1963
The March of the Mill Children, 1903
Delano Grape Strike & Boycott, 1965-70
Capitol Crawl for the ADA, 1990
Egyptian Builders Strike, 1170 BCE
India’s Forest Protectors, 1730 & 1970
Women of Liberia Mass Action For Peace, 2003
Rescue of Danish Jews, 1943
People Power Revolution, 1986
AIDS Memorial Quilt, 1980s
Casa de Castelar Settlement House, 1894-1940
March for Our Lives, 2018

See the still growing collection at: https://paceebene.org/coloring-pages

Drama for Conflict Transformation Toolkit: Youth Theater for Peace

16 August 2017

Youth leaders and adult facilitators can use the Drama for Conflict Transformation Toolkit to create a customized training agenda based on their needs, timetable, and cultural context.

Across Kyrgyzstan, youth participants in the Youth Theater for Peace (YTP) program are using the Drama for Conflict Transformation methodology introduced in the toolkit to create community conversation about conflict issues. Since 2010, participants have collaborated with more than 50,000 audience members to talk about solutions to bullying in schools, labor migration, bride kidnapping, resource scarcity, and substance abuse.

Art for Peace Art Start Cards

15 April 2012

A set of art start cards that provide 5 conflict resolution concepts for students to choose as a theme, 10-15 different art project ideas, and 6 different art tips. These cards also include a glossary for what might be unfamiliar art terms and the art supplies helpful in creating art projects.

Youth Video Production Guide

19 September 2010

This 4-part video guide was put together for United Religions Initiative (URI) Youth Ambassadors by URI Young Leaders Program Steering Committee member, Matthew Youde, from Wales, UK, who is also a filmmaker. He advises on how to produce a number of different videos, from video-diaries to news clips to interviews; how to plan and film different kinds of videos; and special tips for filming interviews.

Talking stick, The and The tree of gratefulness: Autumn — thankfulness at harvest time

22 December 2009

7-page PDF lesson plan which helps students, “to use nature as a means of expressing respect and gratitude.” Projects include creating and using a talking stick.

Exploring emotional literacy through visual the arts: With embedded literacy and numeracy skills

30 April 2009

21-page PDF document created to “enable staff who are not Arts practitioners to carry out this [art based] work. They are designed as individual projects but can equally be extended into small group activities … The aim is to encourage the young person to express visually emotions that are difficult to articulate verbally.” Projects include: Making masks (expressing feelings using facial expressions); Abstract art (expressing feelings using colors and shapes); Designing a chair (expressing how I feel about myself); Creating a book (expressing how I feel, exploring what I know about an issue in my life); and Drawing a neighborhood map (exploring safe and unsafe areas where I live).