Conflict Resolution Education: A Guide to Implementing Programs in Schools, Youth-serving Organizations, and Community and Juvenile Justice Settings : Program ReportDIANE Publishing, 1996 - 88 pages Developed for educators, juvenile justice practitioners, and others in youth-serving organizations to heighten awareness of conflict resolution education and its potential to help settle disputes peacefully in a variety of settings. The guide provides background information on conflict resolution education; an overview of four widely used, promising, and effective approaches; and guidance on how to initiate and implement conflict resolution education programs in various settings. Includes curriculum resources, reading list, glossary and assessment forms. Charts and tables. |
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Page 36 - This includes expressing cooperative intentions, listening carefully, separating interests from positions, and differentiating before trying to integrate the two sets of interests. • Take the other's perspective and summarize your understanding of what the other person wants, how the other person feels, and the reasons underlying both. "My understanding of you is..." This includes understanding the perspective of the opposing disputant and being able to see the problem from both perspectives simultaneously....
Page 61 - Service is under the general authority of the Attorney General and is headed by a Director, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The mission of the Service is to prevent and resolve community conflicts and reduce community tensions arising from actions, policies, and practices perceived to be discriminatory on the basis of race, color, or national origin. The Service offers assistance to communities in resolving disputes relating to race, color, or national origin...
Page 33 - Academic controversy exists when one student's ideas, information, conclusions, theories, and opinions are incompatible with those of another, and the two seek to reach an agreement (Johnson & Johnson, 1979, 1989, 1992).
Page 41 - Obedience is demanded to achieve a person with discipline. But this is a discipline that comes from the outside and works only when one is afraid of someone who is stronger than oneself. We do need discipline, an inner discipline to order our life. What is inner discipline? To my thinking it is the opposite of blind obedience. It is the development of...
Page 136 - You see, I'm quite sensitive about my teeth. I know that when you made fun of my teeth, I should have had better control, but I leaped from the bed and growled that my teeth would help me to eat you. But, come on, Red! Let's face it. Everyone knows no wolf could ever eat a girl, but you started screaming and running around the house. I tried to catch you to calm you down. /All of a sudden, the door came crashing open and a big woodsman stood there with his ax. I knew I was in trouble. There was an...
Page 12 - Ury (1983) developed one approach for effective negotiation which is based on four principles: separate the people from the problem; focus on interests not positions; invent options for mutual gain; and insist on objective criteria.
Page xvi - I'm miserable and lonely." Red's Story "You think that 1 have started unfair rumours about you, and you are miserable and lonely and don't understand why Granny didn't tell your side of the story. "Well, Granny has been sick — and she's been very tired lately. When I asked her how she came to be under the bed, she said she couldn't remember a thing that had happened. Come to think of it, she didn't seem too upset. . .just confused.
Page xv - Grandmother, what big legs you have!" "The better to run with, my child." "Grandmother, what big eyes you have!
Page 40 - Approaches to conflict resolution: includes separating people from the problem; focusing on interests, not positions; inventing options for mutual gain; and insisting on objective criteria.
Page 10 - Hence, before working on the substantive problem, the "people problem" should be disentangled from it and dealt with separately. Figuratively if not literally, the participants should come to see themselves as working side by side, attacking the problem, not each other. Hence the first proposition: Separate the people from the problem.