CRE Practice Areas
Conflict Resolution Education is related to a number of other areas of educational practice. The sidebar menu can be used to explore these areas in some more detail. Our catalog of contributed materials also provides many useful items. You can view related content via this link (opens in a new window).
For a general overview of the relationship between these different areas, you may want to review this short PowerPoint presentation.
Conflict resolution education: models, relationships to other fields

Related Videos of Possible Interest
- CRETE Training at California State University Fresno
- Conflict Resolution in Educational Institutions - Warters Webinar archive
- Social and Emotional Learning After School
Related Catalog Resources
Below you'll find a randomized listing of up to 20 related items (we may have more...) drawn from our Resource Catalog.
| Resource Title | Description | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict resolution protocol for elementary classrooms, A | 4-page PDF excerpt from the book, "The First Six Weeks of School" which discusses teaching conflict resolution, "a basic belief underlying The Responsive Classroom® approach to teaching is that how children learn to treat one another is as important as what they learn in reading, writing, and arithmetic. We believe that social skills such as...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Preparation of pre-service teachers for a culture of dignity and peace, The | 38-page PDF article which argues the necessity of peace education for future teachers. Abstract: This paper argues that since schools are considered spaces for critical transformation and teachers play a vital role in creating conditions where students can become loving, caring members of society, peace education should be made explicit in...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Extending campus conflict resolution efforts beyond the mediation table | Pdf article from Conflict Management in Higher Education Report, Volume 2, Number 3, (May 2002), which "describes creative responses to campus conflict that don't rely on mediation as their central strategy or approach, providing links to online examples when available." | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Road to peace, The: A teaching guide on local and global transitional justice | 10-chapter teaching guide "that introduces students who have a general knowledge of human rights to the concept of transitional justice. Using the expertise of The Advocates' human rights monitoring teams, who carried out work in Peru and Sierra Leone, The Advocates for Human Rights has created this teaching guide to be used with ninth grade...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Coaching youth initiatives: Guide for supporting youth participation | 150-page PDF guide which, "explores the concepts of coaching, youth initiatives and youth participation, including practical tools and methods, advice and information, opportunities and support for those encouraging young people’s participation in youth initiatives ... As a handbook which aims to offer practical support for people active in...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Flirting or hurting?: Teacher guide, grade 6-9 | 9-page PDF teacher's guide which accompanies 3 filmed programs on sexual harrassment, "two of the modules target students, and one targets teachers. Throughout the student programs, the host, an older sister character, provides definitions, explanations and insights based on her own experiences ... the two 15-minute classroom programs include...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Inter-agency peace education programme: Skills for constructive living: Overview of the programme | 46-page pdf document which provides an overview "of the components of the Peace Education Programme and the implementation structure of the programme. It is designed for education managers of ministries dealing with both formal and non-formal education and from agencies who may be implementing education activities on behalf of the government ......(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Restorative justice for the classroom: Lesson 1 the community web | 3-page pdf lesson "to identify community roles in conflict resolution and develop understanding of the significance of each role in keeping the community safe. Through role play, students learn how each role is a part of an intricate web of community support and how a breakdown in one part of the web affects the whole. Through this lesson students...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Peace education: A pathway to a culture of peace (2nd Edition) | 209-page pdf book designed to provide educators with the basic knowledge base as well as the skill- and value-orientations that we associate with educating for a culture of peace. Although this work is primarily directed towards the pre-service and in-service preparation of teachers in the formal school system, it may be used in nonformal...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Nonverbal communication for educators | Online learning module consisting of 14-sections "designed to introduce you to key ideas related to nonverbal communication, with a special emphasis on aspects of nonverbal communication that relate to teaching and learning in the classroom. By the completion of this learning module you should be able to: Understand the importance of nonverbal...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Negative interactions with faculty: Graduate student experiences | Pdf article from Conflict Management in Higher Education Report, Volume 1, Number 3, (August/September 2000), studied the effects of mistreatment of graduate students by faculty on their health and psychological well-being. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Conflict resolution across the curriculum | Pdf article reprinted from the Aug/Sept 1997 Issue (Vol 79) of The Fourth R, The Newsletter of the National Association for Mediation in Education which creates an argument for the teaching of conflict resolution in colleges and universities in every academic discipline as a necessary skill for graduation much like basic writing skills classes. ...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Human rights education in the school systems of Europe, Central Asia and North America: A compendium | 239-page PDF, "compendium of good practice [it] is a compilation of 101 examples of good practice in human rights education in primary schools,ssecondary schools and teacher training institutions ... the term "human rights education" is often used in this resource in a broader sense, to also include education for democratic citizenship and...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Nonviolent communication and ombuds work | Pdf article from Conflict Management in Higher Education Report, Volume 6, Number 1, (Nov 2005), which relates the author's experience using a model from "Nonviolent Communication (NVC)," created by Marshall B. Rosenberg, in her work as university ombudsman at Humboldt State University. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Conflict transformation: A standards-based conflict resolution unit for middle school students | Web-based "twelve-unit, thirty-six-hour course designed to teach middle school students basic conflict transformation skills for personal, community, national, and international situations. The short stories, current events, class discussions, guided reading activities, and guided writing assignments make this course ideal both for social studies...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Partners against hate program activity guide: Helping children resist bias and hate | 120-page pdf guide which "provides parents, educators and other adults with tools and strategies to engage in constructive discussions and activities about the causes and effects of prejudice and bias-motivated behavior and to intervene, when needed, with children who engage in such behavior." Includes twenty-eight activities and bibliographical...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Building community and combating hate: Lessons from the middle school classroom | 65-page pdf document which, "includes a set of ten lessons for middle school educators or youth service professionals to use within their existing curriculum. The lessons reinforce concepts discussed throughout the Partners Against Hate publication Program Activity Guide: Helping Youth Resist Bias and Hate, 2nd edition. The lessons explore the...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Opening the door to nonviolence: Peace education manual for primary school children | Electronic version of the second edition of a teacher's guide for teaching peace education to primary school students. "Part I is designed as a training in affirmation, cooperation and communication. Part II deals with the healing of trauma; Part III is about bias and prejudices. Part IV introduces peaceful problem solving and nonviolent conflict...(see more) | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Conflict resolution education: models, relationships to other fields | Powerpoint presentation examining conflict resolution education and its relationship to fields such as peace studies, law related education and social and emotional learning. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |
| Changing patterns of roommate conflict fueled by the net | Pdf article from Conflict Management in Higher Education Report, Volume 6, Number 1, (Nov 2005), discusses college roommate conflict and how it has changed in the age of "net-gen" students. | Catalog Listing Direct Link to Resource View in Browser |