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Lesson Ideas

Here are a few sample sermons/lesson plans you can use as guides for creating powerful services during Conflict Resolution Month. While their content is slightly biased toward Christianity, they can be easily adapted with Sacred Texts from any faith. Please feel free to share with us your sermon/lesson plan for future Conflict Resolution Months!”

I Come In Peace – Or Do I

The Courage to Change (to download an audio or the complete text of this sermon, visit www.paulalangguthryan.com/sermons or www.artofabundance.com/sermons.htm)

Free Bonus Conflict Resolution Month faith-based tool:

Ryan’s Spiritual Rules of Order – unlike “Robert’s Rules of Order” these Spiritual Rules of Order demonstrate the power of choosing Peace above all else. Please use them in your organization as your contribution to Conflict Resolution Month. Thanks for helping make Colorado the most civil state in the union!

Create a poster with the following and invite people in your office, home, school, business, organization, congregation, etc. to add their thoughts and engage in conversation in October.  What a great way to spend your lunch hour!

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Books and Resources

Books and Resources suggest to you by

Alternative Dispute Resolution Practitioners

Our list is organized by the contributor’s name.

Courtesy of Daniel Horsey, 3 Story Stage, 303/503-1645

Conflict Resolution

Boal, A. (1985). Theatre of the Oppressed (McBride, C. A., & McBride, M.-O. L.,Trans.). New York: Theatre Communications Group. (Original work published 1974).

Bohm, D. (1996). On Dialogue. New York: Routledge.

Buber, M. (1970). I and Thou (W. Kaufmann, Trans.). New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. (Translated from manuscript.)

Bush, R.A.B., & Folger, J.P. (2005). The Promise of Mediation: The transformative approach to conflict. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Dukes, E. F. (1996). Resolving Public Conflict: Transforming Community and Governance. New York: Manchester University Press.

Kolb, D. M. (2001). When talk works: Profiles of Mediators. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Kriesberg, L. (2003). Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution. Boulder, Colorado: Rowman & Littlefield.

Lang, M.D., & Taylor, A. (2000). The Making of a Mediator. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Mayer, B. (2000). The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Moore, C. (2003). The Mediation Process: Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Schuman, S. (Ed.). (2005). The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation. San Francisco: Jossey‑Bass.

Winslade, J., & Monk, G. (2000). Narrative Mediation: A New Approach to Conflict Resolution. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Conflict-related websites

http://www.acrnet.org
Association for Conflict Resolution, an international organization for mediators and other CR supporters.

http://www.iap2.org
International Association for Public Participation, an international organization offering training and tools for public processes.

http://www.coloradomediation.org
Mediation Association of Colorado, theMAC, the state’s mediation membership organization.

http://www.mediate.com
A resource for mediators.

http://www.nafcm.org
National Association for Community Mediation, a membership organization.

http://www.restorativejustice.org
A resource for RJ.

http://www.ncdd.org
National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, a membership organization.

dhorsey@3storystage.com
Daniel Horsey  303/503-1645

Courtesy of Vickie Samland at The Conflict Center

www.conflictcenter.org

Conflict Resolution

Getting to Peace (AKA: The 3rd Side) -- William Ury
Forgiveness: How to make peace with your past and get on with your life -- Dr. Sidney B. Simon
Getting to Yes -- Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
The Magic of Conflict -- Tom Crum

Parents and Educators

Kids Are Worth It -- Barbara Coloroso
The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander -- Barbara Coloroso
How To Talk So Your Kids Will Listen and Listen So Your Kids Will Talk -- Faber & Mazlish
STEP Parenting -- Dinkmeyer
Children: The Challenge -- Dreikurs
Logical Consequences -- Dreikurs
The Spiritual Life of Children -- Robert Coles
  
Videos

Tough Guise -- Katz & Earp
Long Night’s Journey into Day (a documentary on Restorative Justice in South Africa)

Another Book List

Courtesy of Meridee & Ed Cecil, Carole Fotino, Colorado School of Mines Guy T. McBride, Jr. Honors Program in Public Affairs for Engineers

http://mcbride.mines.edu/

Fisher and Ury’s Getting to Yes
Isenhart and Spangle’s Collaborative Approaches to Resolving Conflict
Lederach’s Building Peace: sustainable reconciliation in divided societies
Lederach’s Moral Imagination
Lederach’s Preparing for Peace
Barnett Rubin’s Blood on the Doorstep, published by the Center for Preventive Action
Howard Zehr’s Little Book of Restorative Justice
Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall’s A Force More Powerful (see also the PBS video by the same title)
Mark Juergensmeyer’s Gandhi’s Way: a handbook of conflict resolution
Sandy Tolan’s The Lemon Tree

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