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Resources for Dealing with Violence, Conflicts, Tragedies, and Grief
Books and Magazines
Alive Now Magazine — July-August 1999 issue on "Conflict." (Published by The Upper Room, 1-800-925-6847)
Creating Community Anywhere: Finding Support and Connection in a Fragmented World by Carolyn R. Shaffer & Kristin Anundsen. (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee Books, 1993)
Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis by L. Gregory Jones. (William B. Eerdmans, 1995)
Forgiven and Forgiving by L. William Countryman. (Morehouse Publishing, 1998)
Intercessory Prayer: Praying for Friends and Enemies by Jane E. Vennard. (Augsburg/Fortress, 1995)
More Light, Less Heat: How Dialogue Can Transform Christian Conflicts Into Growth by Joseph Phelps.
(Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1999)
Positive Solutions to School Violence (LinC, volume 4, number 33). This is a download from Cokesbury.
Stop the Violence! Educating Ourselves to Protect Our Youth by Wilda K. W. Morris (Judson Press, 2001)
When the World Breaks Your Heart: Spiritual Ways of Living with Tragedy by Gregory S. Clapper (Upper Room Books, 1999)
Websites
Center for the Prevention of School Violence, Raleigh, North Carolina
North Carolina's Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a resource for other states as they pursue efforts to address the problem of school violence.
The Centering Corporation: A Grief Resource Center
This site offers books and other resources for coping with grief.
Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools offers research-based practices designed to assist school communities to identify warning signs early and to develop prevention, intervention, and crisis response plans.
Educators for Social Responsibility
Click onto this address for information on the Resolving Conflict Creatively
Program, a comprehensive K-12 curriculum on peacemaking and conflict
resolution, now underway at 350 schools. The program, which includes peer
mediation, professional development for teachers and administrators, and
parent training, is an effort of Educators for Social Responsibility, which
was founded in 1982 in New York City.
The Institute for Peace and Justice
The Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ) is an independent, interfaith, nonprofit organization, begun in 1970, as a response to the realities of war, racism, and global economic injustice.
Learning Exchange Digest — Preventing School Violence
Information and links about preventing school violence.
The Nonviolence Web
Partnerships Against Violence Network
The PAVNet site is a comprehensive source of violence-prevention data
culled from seven federal agencies, including the departments of justice
and education. Check into this "virtual library" for information on promising
programs, statistical data, and funding sources.
Ribbon of Promise — End School Violence
The Ribbon of Promise was organized in May 1998 folowing a school shooting in Springfield, Oregon. A volunteer organization, it is designed to increase awareness of school violence.
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