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Tools for Making Peace a Lifestyle

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Search for Common Ground

WHAT An international NGO that implements on the ground conflict resolution techniques through creative and collaborative problem solving.

HOW The well established organization, founded in 1982, uses a variety of means to bring about peaceful resolution including: media production (radio, TV, film and print), sports, drama, music, community organizing and more. Search for Common Ground works with local partners to develop culturally appropriate methods that will put an end to conflict.

WHERE The NGO has 50 offices in 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe (PEACETUBE)

WHAT A worldwide Facebook chat app (still in progress) that intends to connect people from opposite sides of the political and global spectrum. PeaceTube users log into the app and the system randomly and anonymously introduces the user to another person from a different country. The two can get to know each other via chat, form a connection, find common ground, and even take the nextstep - reveal their Facebook identities, and if they choose, become full-fledged Facebook friends.

Center for Media & Peace Initiatives (CMPI)

WHAT A NYC based nonprofit that promotes conflict resolution through training media professionals and raising awareness about the role of media in promoting peace. The CMPI offers various training projects ranging from courses that teach young people about journalism to professional development programs for African journalists.The organization also conducts media-centered academic research focusing on communication and peaceful resolution in addition to seminars and events.

Seeds of Peace

Seeds Of Peace equips youth and educators with the skills and relationships they need to accelerate social, economic, and political changes essential for peace. While focusing on personal transformation and then wider societal change.

The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP)

AVP provides free and confidential assistance to thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected (LGBTQH) people each year from all five boroughs of New York City through direct client services and community organizing and public advocacy. AVP was named a White House Champion of Change for its work on intimate partner violence within LGBTQH communities.

City University of New York (CUNY) Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Since 1993, John Jay College of Criminal Justice has housed the City University of New York Dispute Resolution Consortium (CUNY DRC), a university based academic center which serves as a comprehensive coordinating mechanism to advance research and innovative program development throughout the City University as well as the New York City metropolitan area.

Community Mediation Services

Community Mediation Services, Inc. in Queens, NY has a holistic approach to conflict resolution that touches many thousands of people each year. The organization offers basic mediation training, custody-visitation mediation training, a divorce mediation program, and a mediation apprenticeship program.

Books:

Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You!

Marley Dias explores activism, social justice, volunteerism, equity and inclusion, and using social media for good. Drawing from her experience, Marley shows kids how they can galvanize their strengths to make positive changes in their communities, while getting support from parents, teachers, and friends to turn dreams into reality. Focusing on the importance of literacy and diversity, Marley offers suggestions on book selection, and delivers hands-on strategies for becoming a lifelong reader.

We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour

Now heralded for her award-winning leadership of the Women’s March on Washington, in We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders Linda Sarsour offers a poignant story of community and family. From the Brooklyn bodega her father owned, where Linda learned the real meaning of intersectionality, to protests in the streets of Washington, DC, Linda’s experience as a daughter of Palestinian immigrants is a moving portrayal of what it means to find one’s voice and use it for the good of others. We follow Linda as she learns the tenets of successful community organizing, and through decades of fighting for racial, economic, gender, and social justice as she becomes one of the most recognized activists in the nation.

Music:

Musicians’ Alliance for Peace (MAP)

A global effort to fill the world with music as a call for peace and justice. Organizes the Music for Peace Project, an annual global event of Concerts for Peace from March to April. The Music for Peace Project creates a global celebration of peace and provides a voice for the vibrant community that believes in peaceful solutions for the future. They believe that music has the power to inspire co

mpassion and foster understanding between cultures while deepening the bonds that form our communities. Address: Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5475, USA.

There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings. - Senator George Mitchell