This manual serves as a student workbook and is recommended for each learner participating in the program.
The manual summarizes each important concept:
- Rights and responsibilities
- Rules, cooperation
- Conflict
- Peace and peacemaking
- Negotiation
- Mediation
- Group problem solving
The manual contains a variety of forms and worksheets designed to reinforce student learning.
SECTION 1: Building a Peaceable Climate
- Introduction
- Ground Rules for the Class Meeting
- What Responsibility Means to Me
- What Rights Mean to Me
- Rights and Responsibilties
- My Rights and Responsibilities
- Rules for Our Class
- Cooperation
SECTION 2: Understanding Conflict
- What Conflict Means to Me
- Ideas About Conflict
- Basic Needs
- How We Meet Our Basic Needs
- How I Meet My Basic Needs
- Looking at My Conflicts
- Enough Is Not Enough
- Different Values
- Origins of Conflict
- Origins of My Conflicts
- How I Respond to Conflict
- Soft Responses to Conflict
- Hard Responses to Conflict
- Principled Responses to Conflict
- Responses to Conflict
- Outcomes of Conflict
- Five Scenes
- Summary: Responses and Outcomes
- Understanding Conflict
- Sample Conflict Review
- Conflict Review
- My Conflicts: Negative and Positive Outcomes
- Summary: Negative and Positive Outcomes
SECTION 3: Understanding Peace and Peacemaking
- What Peace Means to Me
- Definitions of Peace
- A Blessing for Peace
- Peacemakers
- Makers and Breakers
- Maker and Breaker Behaviors
- Peacemaking and Peacebreaking: What I See Around Me
- Peacemaking and Peacebreaking: My Behavior
- Principles of Conflict Resolution
- Making Peace
- Perceptions
- Emotions
- Words to Describe Some Emotions
- Emotional Situations
- My Anger Situation
- Rule for Expressing Anger
- Communication Problems
- Active Listening: Attending
- Active Listening: Summarizing
- Active Listening: Clarifying
- Communication Inhibitors
- Sending Clear Messages
- Focusing on Interests, Not Positions
- Identifying Positions and Interests
- Inventing Options for Mutual Gain
- Rules for Brainstorming
- Using Fair Criteria
SECTION 4: Mediation
- Mediation
- Role of the Mediator
- Steps in the Mediation Process
- Sample Mediation
- Step 1: Agree to Mediate
- Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
- Step 2: Gather Points of View
- Step 3: Focus on Interests
- Step 4: Create Win-Win Options
- Step 5: Evaluate Options
- Step 6: Create an Agreement
- The Peaceable School Mediation Process
SECTION 5: Negotiation
- Negotiation
- Role of the Negotiator
- Steps in the Negotiation Process
- Sample Negotiation
- Step 1: Agree to Negotiate
- Red Riding Hood and the Wolf: Gather Points of View
- Step 2: Gather Points of View
- Red Riding Hood and the Wolf: Focus on Interests
- Step 3: Focus on Interests
- Red Riding Hood and the Wolf: Create Win-Win Options
- Step 4: Create Win-Win Options
- Red Riding Hood and the Wolf: Evaluate Options
- Step 5: Evaluate Options
- Red Riding Hood and the Wolf: Create an Agreement
- Step 6: Create an Agreement
- The Peaceable School Negotiation Process
SECTION 6 Group Problem Solving
- Find Someone Who . . .
- Sentence Completions
- Group Problem Solving
- Role of the Group Problem Solver
- Ground Rules for Group Problem Solving
- Steps in the Group Problem Solving Process
- Step 1: Agree to Problem Solve
- Step 2: Gather Points of View
- Step 3: Focus on Interests in the Group
- Step 4: Create Win-Win Options
- Step 5a: Establish Criteria to Evaluate Options
- Step 5b: Evaluate Options
- Step 6: Create an Agreement
- The Peaceable School Group Problem Solving Process
