Art in Peacemaking: A Guide to Integrating Conflict Resolution Education Into Youth Arts Program.

摘要

The objectives of the Partnership are twofold: to advance the principles of conflict resolution education, and to help develop conflict resolution education programs within arts-based youth programs. Arts-based organizations benefit from such training by being able to provide youth with a program that helps build self-respect, respect of differences, and social responsibility, while also providing them skills and processes that help peacefully manage conflicts. Arts organizations already lay a foundation for peaceful conflict resolution by creating a safe environment that encourages the active and open expression of ideas. The Partnership seeks to build on this foundation by providing arts-based programs a collaborative framework to resolve conflicts peaceably. This resource guide provides information and tools that introduce arts teachers to conflict resolution skills and processes. The guide also contains various arts-based exercises that can be used to introduce conflict resolution concepts to young people in the classroom. These exercises serve merely as a starting point; arts teachers are encouraged to develop their own activities that will work best within the settings in which they teach. Because this guide was developed after four years of the Partnerships initiative to integrate conflict resolution into arts programs, it contains descriptions of how arts organizations have integrated conflict resolution into their work with youth, schools, and other community organizations.