Anger Control and Conflict Management for Kids: a Learning Guide for the Elementary Grades. Terri Akin & Susanna Palomares, $30.95

Ready-to-use lessons and dozens of reproducible student worksheets designed to help K-6 students learn skills for anger management and successful conflict resolution.

Anger and conflict are natural. We all get angry and we all get involved in conflicts. But, learning how to manage these issues and developing positive responses can be hard work. This book provides guidance, sound ideas, and engaging activities to help teachers and counselors give their children lifelong techniques for working with and working through anger and conflict. Get students to take responsibility for settling their own disputes!

Conflict Resolution Skills for Teens. David Cowan, Susan Palomares & Dianne Schilling, $29.95

This practical book provides a variety of engaging activities, group discussions, reproducible handouts and other ideas – all designed to help teens develop the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary for effective conflict resolution.

Doing Good Together: 101 Easy, Meaningful Service Projects for Families, Schools and Communities. Jenny Friedman & Jolene Roehlkepartain, $29.99

What happens when families volunteer together with other families? Communities benefit, kids and families benefit and your organization benefits.

With activities focused on helping the environment, easing poverty, promoting literacy and more, the 101 ready-to-use projects in this book are a great way to reap the many benefits of family service.  These self-contained projects are easy to implement and include everything leaders need to plan, organize, conduct and help participants reflect on the experience.

Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community and Stand for Social Justice. Allan Creighton & Paul Kivel, $23.50

Allan Creighton and Paul Kivel, veteran youth educators and community activists, use their decades of experience with teens to offer:

• a framework and vocabulary for teaching violence prevention and social justice
• road-tested exercises for adult, staff and youth training and development
• guidelines for facilitating discussions on sensitive contemporary issues

These tools have been used successfully in schools, residential programs, after-school and recreation programs, youth detention facilities, and colleges and universities. Any adult determined to help young people become active, critically thinking community members will find a strong ally in this empowering resource.

Implementing Restorative Practices in Schools: a Practical Guide to Transforming School Communities. Margaret Thorsborne & Peta Blood, $43.95

Restorative practice is a proven approach to discipline in schools that favours relationships over retribution, and has been shown to improve behaviour and enhance teaching and learning outcomes. However, in order for it to work, restorative practice needs a relational school culture. IMPLEMENTING RESTORATIVE PRACTICE IN SCHOOLS explains what has to happen in a school in order for it to become truly restorative. Featuring useful pro formas and templates, this book will be an indispensable guide for educators, administrators and school leaders in mainstream and specialist settings.

Keeping the Peace: Practicing Cooperation and Conflict Resolution with Preschoolers. Susanne Wichert, $17.95

KEEPING THE PEACE is a handbook for parents, daycare providers, kindergarten teachers and playgroup leaders striving to create harmonious groups, bolster children's self-esteem, and foster cooperative and creative interactions between kids aged from two and a half to six. It includes carefully designed and clearly presented activities, anecdotes from the author's own extensive journals, and the theories behind the design.

The KidsKope Peer Mentoring Programme: a Therapeutic Approach to Help Children and Young People Build Resilience and Deal with Conflict. Nina Wroe & Penny McFarland, $34.95

This is a programme to train young people how to be therapeutic mentors to younger children, with mentoring workshop outlines and creative, therapeutic activities to use. Peer mentoring is mutually beneficial: being a mentor can help young people in conflict situations who may not engage easily with adult intervention, and it also has therapeutic benefits for younger mentees.

As well as training sessions for the mentors, the book provides outlines of mentoring workshops on issues such as bullying, conflict with parents, parental separation and change and transition. Creative ideas to use in the sessions, such as games, relaxation techniques, role play, and reframing activities, are provided, with photocopiable materials. Suitable for use with mentors aged 14-18 and mentees aged 9-13, this is an ideal resource to train peer mentors in therapeutic mentoring and for mentors to use in their sessions.

The Little Book of Conflict Transformation. John Paul Lederach, $4.95

Conflict transformation offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict on all levels. This simple yet profound book is a clear articulation of the guiding principles developed by a pioneer in the field.

Little Peacemakers: a Step-by-Step Guide for Training Elementary-Age Mediators. Max Nass & Marcia Nass, $23.95

Conflict is a way of life — something we cannot avoid. In the classroom or other group settings, these conflicts take time away from learning and can try the patience of even the most seasoned teacher. But there is an alternative: mediation. By teaching mediation skills to elementary school children, we demonstrate creative and constructive ways to handle conflicts and empower them for a lifetime.

LITTLE PEACEMAKERS provides a step-by-step framework for training classroom mediators who help peers resolve a problem and arrive at a peaceful solution. Classroom mediators are highly effective in helping other students solve nonphysical disagreements through a series of simple steps. The eight-week curriculum consists of 30-minute, hands-on lessons that teach problem solving, active listening, and brainstorming and how to apply those skills to mediation.

Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World. Craig Kielburger & Marc Kielburger, $16.95

For everyone who has ever yearned for a better life and a better world, Craig and Marc Kielburger share a blueprint for personal and social change that has the power to transform lives, one act at a time. Me to We is an approach to life that leads us to recognize what is truly valuable, make new decisions about the way we want to live, and re-define the goals we set for ourselves and the legacy we want to leave. Above all, it creates new ways of measuring happiness, meaning, and success in our lives, and makes sure these elusive goals are attainable at last.

The No-Fault Classroom: Tools to Resolve Conflict & Foster Relationship Intelligence. Sura Hart & Victoria Kindle Hodson, $27.95

Offering far more than discipline techniques that move aggressive behavior out of the classroom to the playground or sidewalk, THE NO-FAULT CLASSROOM leads students ages 7–12 in developing skills in problem solving, empathic listening and conflict resolution that will last a lifetime. Interactive and step-by-step lessons, construction materials and adaptable scripts give educators the tools they need to return order and co-operation to the classroom and jumpstart engaged learning.

PeaceJam: a Billion Acts of Peace. Ivan Suvanjieff & Dawn Gifford Engle, $18.50

Based on the highly acclaimed PeaceJam program — an educational action plan built around the spirit, skills, and wisdom of Nobel Peace Laureates — this is a practical and motivational guide that will inspire a generation of peacemakers. PEACEJAM traces the lives of five American teens who, by applying the skills and techniques from the PeaceJam program and developing personal relationships with Nobel Peace Laureates such as the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, begin to sense their own potential for greatness.

A Prayer for World Peace. Jane Goodall, Feeroozeh Golmohammadi, $17.99

Jane Goodall is a world-renowned naturalist who brings her passion and her quest for understanding between all the Earth’s creatures to the fore in this beautiful and affecting prayer for world peace. She asks us all to rise above our dogmas, to bring a spirit of generosity to the living world around us, to pray for justice and for those who are suffering. Illustrated with rich and colorful artwork, this is prayer that’s both personal and universal and one that will speak to people of all ages from all backgrounds.

Raising Peacemakers. Esther Sokolov Fine, $23.95

Raising Peacemakers tells a 22-year story of kids growing up with peacemaking as their foundation. At Downtown Alternative School (DAS), a small public elementary school in Toronto, child-to-child conflicts were understood as opportunities. Children and adults worked hard to create a warm inclusive community where differing viewpoints and disagreements could be handled fairly and safely.

While the book includes documentation and transcripts, it’s a narrative rather than an academic text. It’s a trail of re-thinking, negotiating and re-negotiating, solving and re-solving (occasionally resolving) teaching and learning dilemmas. It’s a tale of one school’s brave and optimistic effort to create and sustain healthy, safe, equitable, and academically relevant conditions for and with people whose lives were and are at stake in public education. It’s about children and adults growing together as they discover more about what it means (and what it takes) to become responsible citizens who care about each other, about their community, and about the world.

The DAS community was dedicated to the serious work, and to the joy, of respectful relationships and power sharing. This book invites you to step back more than twenty years to learn about how this began and what keeps it alive to this day.

Ready-to-Use Violence Prevention Skills Lessons & Activities for Elementary Students. Ruth Weltmann Begun & Frank Huml, editors, $32.99; Secondary Schools, $32.99

Two self-contained volumes, for the elementary and secondary levels, featuring a ready-to-use curriculum of lessons and reproducible activity sheet to help students build character, recognize threatening situations, and handle conflicts safely. Lessons are based on real situations in students' own lives, with topics such as stimulant use, dealing with anger, family relationships, choosing friends wisely, and gang-related activities. They help students build character, prepare them to recognize situations that could become violent, and teach them the skills they need to handle conflicts in a non-violent and peaceful manner. Includes detailed lesson plans and an extensive bibliography of useful resources.

Story Solutions. Kevin Strauss, $50.50

Using tales to build character and teach bully prevention, drug prevention and conflict resolution.

Teaching the Skills of Conflict Resolution: Activities and Strategies, Grades K-8. David Cowan, Susanna Palomares & Dianne Schilling, $30.95

Our best-selling conflict management activity book is a must have for anyone working with elementary/middle school students today. These prevention-oriented activities and strategies will help you reduce conflict through the creation of a more peaceful, cooperative environment and be able to use win-win strategies to resolve conflicts when they do occur. Seven thematic units provide over 70 enriching activities (many with reproducible handouts). All activities include discussion questions designed to promote awareness and higher level thinking.

Teaching in Troubled Times. Kathy Paterson, $24.95

TEACHING IN TROUBLED TIMES shows teachers how to explore major issues in the lives of their students in a healthy, positive way and how to build confidence in addressing students' troubles. It offers valuable insights into dealing with any number of challenges, and suggests simple ways of guiding honest and responsive discussion, as well as liberating activities that encourage students to disengage from their fears.

Teen Conflict Management Skills Workbook: Facilitator Reproducible Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts. John Liptak & Ester Leutenberg, $53.95

Conflict is a basic fact of life. As children, teens and adults we all experience conflict in our lives. Because conflicts are disagreements resulting from people or groups having differences in attitudes, beliefs, values or needs, conflict is inevitable. People experience differences in any type of relationship. That conflict exists is not a bad situation, as long as the conflict is managed effectively by resolving them in a calm, respectful way that will lead to growth and maturity. THE TEEN CONFLICT MANAGEMENT SKILLS WORKBOOK contains five separate sections that correlate with the Teen Conflict Model tool presented in the book. Participants will learn new skills and the importance of preventing, managing and resolving conflicts. Included are the following reproducible pages: assessment instruments, activity handouts, role plays, quotations, reflective questions for journaling, and educational handouts.

Training Peer Helpers: Coaching Youth to Communicate, Solve Problems and Make Decisions. Barbara Varenhorst, $39.95

When young people struggle with problems, to whom do they turn for help? Most often, it’s their friends. TRAINING PEER HELPERS provides 15 sessions an adult can use to train students in the skills necessary to more effectively help their peers. Through discussion and fun, engaging activities, students will learn the basic but crucial skills necessary for building healthy relationships, including the following:

• Communication: asking questions and listening for content and feelings
• Assertiveness: expressing rights and desires, dealing with peer pressure, and managing sensitive issues
• Confidentiality: honoring what others share and deciding when safety concerns override it
• Decision making: weighing information and evaluating choices
• Conflict mediation: dealing with disagreements and reaching peaceful solutions

This resource incorporates the 40 Developmental Assets — the essential building blocks of healthy development that young people need to succeed — and helps young people make a powerful difference in the lives of their peers. Includes a CD-ROM of handouts from the book.

Why Do We Fight? Conflict, War, and Peace. Niki Walker, $16.95 (ages 10-14)

Battles, protests, standoffs, strikes. We hear about them all the time. On the surface, a battle and a protest don't seem to have much in common, but they're really just two ways of handling a dispute. One uses violence, the other uses signs and picket lines. But both start as a disagreement between two groups of people. Both are conflicts. Since it's impossible for people to agree on everything all the time, conflicts naturally pop up every day, all over the world. Sometimes they turn into full-blown wars, which can be a lot trickier to understand than the conflicts that pop up in everyday life, but every conflict has some things in common.

Using real world examples, WHY DO WE FIGHT teaches kids to recognize the structures, factors, and complex histories that go into creating conflicts, whether personal or global — as well as the similarities between both. They'll be given tools to seek out information, enabling them to make informed opinions while learning to respect that others may form different ones. From culture clashes and trade disputes to disagreements about how to govern, WHY DO WE FIGHT insists that the key to fulfilling humankind's wish for "world peace" lies in how we choose to deal with conflict and provides a genuine cause for optimism in the face of an at-times frightening world.