Participate In Our Conflict Resolution Program
Our organization runs a 10-week conflict resolution program for grade 4 and 5 students in Montreal elementary schools. Each week our facilitators (students at McGill University) use games, role-playing, art projects and discussions to challenge students to think about, and re-assess, conflicts in their own lives. At the end of the program, we celebrate our accomplishments at a Peace Festival, where all of the students and community partners of the program are invited to participate. We also run our program at no cost to the schools.
Our Curriculum
The Peace by PEACE Core Curriculum is employed in all our conflict resolution programs. The four core components are:
Defining Conflict
Students explore what conflict is, what its causes are and how conflict affects our society.
Conflict Escalation
Students learn about conflict development and how words, actions and body language can increase the severity of conflicts.
Conflict De-escalation
Students examine their body language, tone, words and actions to find out how to use the same factors that escalate a conflict to de-escalate it.
Peace by PEACE Games
Students and volunteers work together to create peace games in which everyone wins.
Facilitators share teaching experiences on a bi-weekly basis and at the end of the session, evaluate the curriculum to measure the effectiveness of our lessons. These strategies help us identify and form improvements to our program.
Defining Conflict
Students explore what conflict is, what its causes are and how conflict affects our society.
Conflict Escalation
Students learn about conflict development and how words, actions and body language can increase the severity of conflicts.
Conflict De-escalation
Students examine their body language, tone, words and actions to find out how to use the same factors that escalate a conflict to de-escalate it.
Peace by PEACE Games
Students and volunteers work together to create peace games in which everyone wins.
Facilitators share teaching experiences on a bi-weekly basis and at the end of the session, evaluate the curriculum to measure the effectiveness of our lessons. These strategies help us identify and form improvements to our program.
A typical 60-minute Classroom Session
Below is an example of a typical classroom session. This examples draws from Unit 3 (Communication and Listening Skills) and assumes that the session runs from 9:00am - 10:00am.
9:00 - 9:10 Volunteers review concepts from the previous session by asking students questions.
9:10 - 9:20 Volunteers introduce the concept of non-verbal communication.
9:20 - 9:35 Volunteers lead one or two activities where students are made aware of their body language and tone of voice.
9:35 - 9:50 Volunteers lead an activity which introduces students with a technique to monitor their non-verbal communication.
9:50 - 10:00 Volunteers address questions in the Peace Box (a box that students can use to ask questions anonymously).
9:00 - 9:10 Volunteers review concepts from the previous session by asking students questions.
9:10 - 9:20 Volunteers introduce the concept of non-verbal communication.
9:20 - 9:35 Volunteers lead one or two activities where students are made aware of their body language and tone of voice.
9:35 - 9:50 Volunteers lead an activity which introduces students with a technique to monitor their non-verbal communication.
9:50 - 10:00 Volunteers address questions in the Peace Box (a box that students can use to ask questions anonymously).
Get In Touch!
It's easy to run our program at your school! We will be able to walk you through our application process and have facilitators running our program in your school so that your students can benefit from the strategies we teach and work to foster in your students.
To run our program at your school, please contact us here.
To run our program at your school, please contact us here.