Resources

VFP RESOURCES

WEBSITES

Peace and Justice Support Network of Mennonite Church
An excellent resource for children, adults, and military. Includes activities, curricula, websites, books, and vidoes. Some of the topics covered includes conflict resolution, peer meditation, social responsibility, tolerance, and more!

Teaching Tolerance
Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance has online stories, lesson plans, and classroom activities. They also have free teaching kits and a bi-yearly publication.

Blessed are the Peacemakers
A site with over 40 faces of peace along with their biographies.

BOOKS

How to Teach Peace to Children
How can parents instill a peaceable lifestyle in their children? Do children learn more by words or by actions? How to Teach Peace to Children speaks to issues that are front and center for parents-building family relationships, teaching care for others in the neighborhood and around the world, guiding children in the way of nonviolence.