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Featured Programs Doing CRE Work

To call attention to significant work happening around the world, we offer up this rotating collection of international organizations that do work in conflict resolution education. Each time you visit this page you may see a new set, so stop by often!

Academy for Peace of Costa Rica

Type of Organization:Non-governmental - Non-Profit

Description of organization: The Academy for Peace of Costa Rica is a non-profit non-governmental organization (supported by the Rasur Foundation) located in Costa Rica working with local communities and the Costa Rican national government to create a culture of peace. Our two-pronged approach includes the establishment of peace infrastructure in government and the dissemination of the BePeace practice (synergistic combination of HeartMath, founded by the Institute of HeartMath, and Marshall B. Rosenberg’s Non-Violent Communication) in the local school system to pass this peace skill from generation to generation.

Number of staff members: Office Staff: 5; plus school trainers and facilitators: 8 = 13 total

Publications: The Return of Rasur, written by Rita Marie Johnson; BePeace 40-Hour Course Manual; BePeace Facilitator’s Guidebook; periodic newsletters available on website www.academyforpeacecr.org

Description of Organization’s work in Conflict Resolution Education/ Peace Education:
Within Higher Education (university/college; ages 18 and higher):
Lead informational workshops with the United Nations’ chartered University for Peace; recruit university students in the Psychology field from Universidad Latina and Universidad Nacional to work with us in our school program.

Within Early childhood to pre-university (K-12, youth ages 0-18):
The BePeace practice is currently taught in 13 schools in the Costa Rican county of Santa Ana, following an extensive and ongoing training process for teachers, students and parents. Utilizing our original BePeace curriculum, Academy for Peace trainers teach a 1-hour session per week to the 5th grade classes in each school, in addition to refresher courses for teachers who have previously received the 40-hour BePeace training, and a separate 9-hour course for parents. Supported by Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Education, we are currently in the planning stages to extend BePeace methodology throughout the national public school system in Costa Rica.

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Home Country: Costa Rica

Web Address:
http://www.academyforpeacecr.org

Email Contact:info@rasurfoundation.org

School Mediation Center-- Life Trax

Type of Organization:Non-governmental - Non-Profit

“Why caring, belonging and resolving conflict productively is important?” 
Unresolved conflict is the #1 reason for student absenteeism
Belonging is the most single factor reducing potential for violence
Students need to feel safe before productive learning occurs
Caring is the foundation of respect
Life Trax is an organization that offers training to adults and youth utilizing practical life strategies to meet the demands and changes in an ever-changing world. Practicing productive conflict resolution is essential to maintaining balance in daily life, work and play.
Life Trax teaches simple solutions and provides training and products that increase individual and group performance that meet or exceed your goals.

Home Country: United States

Web Address:
http://www.schoolmediationcenter.org/

Email Contact:info@lifetrax.org