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This strategy, sponsored by the Association For Conflict Resolution, prevents violence by enabling young people to deal with conflict in a productive way. By teaching kids how to manage their conflicts, they will learn how to de-escalate potentially violent situations before they get out of control. Click here for lesson plans and activities designed for this day by the Association For Conflict Resolution.
Below are some ways to educate your students on how to resolve conflicts peacefully...
- Establish a peer mediation program at your school and use this day as a kickoff for the program by running mediation role-plays at a school assembly.
- Create a public service announcement on the importance of managing conflicts peacefully.
- Ask students to document how conflicts are resolved on TV and encourage students to write letters to TV stations asking them to present ways that conflicts can be resolved peacefully.
- Guide students through a brainstorming session where they come up with various ways to be a good listener. Have students participate in role-plays that demonstrate active listening.
- Create a Peacemakers Wall in your school that pays tribute to local, national, and international figures who have resolved conflicts peacefully.
- Identify conflicts in history and discuss how they were resolved peacefully.
 
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