Peace & Justice Resources
Reality clearly indicates we have recently left the most violent decade and certainly the most violent century in recorded world history. Violence is a global epidemic. America’s children are besieged by a multi-front war of violence, poverty, neglect, and breakdown of family and community nurturing support.
At no other time have schools been more important to children, their families and society than now. We are at the threshold of the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. There are many resources and materials from which to get a myriad of ideas on how to move forward. It is important to make this an ongoing effort so that we make a lasting difference.
- Thoughts and Quotes on Peace
A collection of famous and unusual quotations on peace
- Several Litanies and Prayers on Peace
A Litany of Peace with Justice, Native American Prayer for Peace, and The Prayer of Saint Francis
- 24 Ways to Work for Peace
24 ideas for working with high school aged young adults and adults on issues of peace and justice
- Ways to Work for Peace in the Classroom
A collection of peace and justice activities geared at the early childhood and elementary classroom
- Bulletin Insert
A peace resource provided by the ELCA Task Force for the Decade for a Culture of Nonviolence
- Perspectives on Violence: Loss, Suffering, Healing, Growing
Ways parents and schools can help their children in violent times
- Talk With Your Children About Violence
A resource, presented by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation, designed to help us all be in dialog with children on the subject of violence
- Community Violence, a message of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- For Peace in God's World, a social statement of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- Living in a Time of Terrorism, a message of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- Suicide Prevention, a message of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America