Resources from the Conflict Management in Higher Education Site
Our in-house journal includes regular reviews of helpful teaching
and training tools. See the Tools
Section for a listing of what we've covered to date.
Our Campus-adr Tech Blog is the spot where Bill Warters posts any newly discovered online learning tools and research info. Look under the Learning Objects or Conflict Resolution categories. If your browser supports my javascript include, you should also see some of these tools displayed at the end of this very page, after the static content.
Training Design and Handout Ideas
A new Academic Conflict Resolution Skills Website has been established through the joint efforts of the Office of Human Resource Development and Office of Quality Improvement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a resource to enhance the skills of faculty, staff, and students as they seek to manage conflicts that occur in the campus community and build a positive campus climate.
Turning
Lemons into Lemonade: Public Conflict Resolution (available
online) is a train-the-trainers tool from the Southern Rural Development
Center. It is designed to be taught and used primarily by extension
educators, community officials, and citizen leaders. The basic
goal of the manual is to give workshop participants the applicable
knowledge and skills to help teach others how to identify, understand,
manage, and when possible and desirable, to resolve conflicts
within their own communities.
The Cooperative Communication Skills Extended Learning Community is provided as a public sevice by the Institute for Cooperative Communication Skills. The website specializes in web-viewable workbooks and articles about communicating effectively. The site provides free books, essays and exercises to help you: communicate more creatively, successfully, & compassionately; encourage dialogue/resolve conflicts/prevent violence, & work with family members in building a more cooperative shared life.
A Mini-course on Facilitation Skills developed by the Department of Defense provides a structured outline and some content for teaching/learning about facilitation.
A Crisis
Communication Course by William E. Arnold, Ph.D. is built
around an online textbook and accompanying realaudio clips.
The book Surfing the Edge of Chaos includes case study examples that use various facilitation techniques such as After Action Review, Action Lab, Fishbowl, Learning Map, Organizational Audits - Seven S, Town Hall Meetings, and the Valentines Exercise. The book's companion website includes examples of these techniques using video clips, slides and outlines.
The Conflict
Resolution unit from the Civil Air Patrol Professional Development
Course includes instructors outline, powerpoint slides and participant
text.
UNICEF Canada has posted a curriculum activity file called Building a Culture of Peace. It is available online.
This unit is divided into six different sets of activities. Each set focuses on one principle of the Manifesto 2000 (www.unesco.org/manifesto2000). UNESCO created this manifesto consisting of six principles which, practiced together, would help bring about peace. Those who sign the Manifesto pledge to respect all life, reject violence, share with others, listen to understand, preserve the planet, and rediscover solidarity. As UNICEF is committed to working for the rights of all children, each activity in this activity file is also linked to different articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (www.unicef.org/crc/). The activities look at how the culture of war we live in affects children and what children can do to bring about a culture of peace.
Also of interest from UNICEF Canada. Teaching for Peace
and Conflict Resolution is a training and curriculum support
manual for all grades. Approaches and
activities are presented for use in school and in other community
settings.
An Online Introduction to the Study of Conflict Management was developed by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship. Topics include: Why the study of conflict is important, Key elements of conflict, The nature of conflict, Variables in the study of conflict, and Skills for conflict managers. Includes a self test to check your understanding and a list of the sources that were used in compiling the site.
United States
Institute for Peace Audio Visual Archive. The Institute organizes
public meetings to discuss and examine breaking international
affairs issues of interest to policymakers, the news media, other
foreign-policy professionals, and the public. These events are
often webcast by the Institute, making important dialogues available
to interested audiences beyond the boundaries of the Washington
"Beltway."
The archive
presents a listing of available archived audio files, archived
video files, transcripts, text of remarks, and written summaries
of Institute events and programs.
A Force
More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict website provides
attractive and informative online materials supporting a 3-hour
documentary series on PBS on the same subject. Instructional
materials include 3 full lessons and a simulation exercise.
Lots of good information on nonviolent resistance theory and practice.
The Practitioners' Guide
for Conflict Prevention and Mitigation is intended for policy-makers
and practitioners at all levels, and represents a recently-assembled
body of knowledge on the origins and life cycle of conflicts,
an array of tools for conflict prevention and mitigation, and
a set of strategies for applying those tools effectively. It was
prepared by Creative Associates International, Inc. at the request
of the Greater Horn of Africa Initiative.
