The following are suggestions for resources which can be easily accessed through the Internet. (In most cases, you can download most things for free.)

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One of the newest resources comes from The Hague Appeal for Peace, Learning to Abolish War, Teaching Toward a Culture of Peace, developed by Betty A. Reardon and Alicia Cabezudo (email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , tel: 1-212-687-2623).  This hefty packet provides a teaching packet with rationale, sample learning units, and tools for participation.

Educating for a Peaceful Future, by David C. Smith and Terrance R. Carson, is a wonderful overview, with 26 activities developed by Graham Pike and David Selby. The book is published by Kagan & Woo, Ltd., 253 College St., Unit 393, Toronto, M5T 1RS, Canada.  It is also available through The Green Brick Road, Toronto, 1-800-473-3638 (email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

The United Nations
Their portal site is www.un.org, valuable for pulling up any UN resolution and other primary documentation.

Also, see the CyberSchoolbus:  www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/index.asp. Teachers can participate in evaluating the site, get free materials, etc.

Teaching Tolerance
www.tolerance.org  

They also publish materials, a magazine, media products, many of which are free to educators.

Global Education Network
www.global-ed.org

See particularly their extensive annotated bibliography of resources.

Jane Goodall Institute
www.janegoodall.org

Her Roots & Shoots programs connect schools all over the world through shared goals and activities. Also many helpful resources.

Oxfam
The portal site, www.oxfam.org, connects to affiliate chapters throughout the world. The UK chapter has been particularly active in peace education issues. 

See www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/index.htm for teaching resources and for a student-friendly website. 

See particularly the UK chapter’s "A Curriculum for Global Citizenship" www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/globciti/curric/index.htm

Doctors Without Borders
They have an interactive refugee camp site, where students walk through a camp and come across many of the issues.  www.refugeecamp.org.

See also www.refugees.org, of the US Committee on Refugees for information and links on refugee issues.

Educators for Social Responsibility
An excellent website for a full range of ideas, resources, bibliography, etc. www.esrnational.org

Good resources for teaching about prejudice
The Anti-Defamation League’s "What to tell your child about Prejudice and discrimination," found at www.adl.org/what_to_tell/print.html.

World Wise Schools
This is a project of the U.S. Peacecorps and can be accessed through www.peacecorps.gov.  US educators can request free, short (usually about 20 minutes) videos of highlighting Peacecorps projects throughout the world.

A summary article on "Trends in Peace Education", plus a bibliography including many of the above and written texts, can be found in the ERIC Digests, www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed417123.html.