Peace Skills: Leader's Guide [Paperback]

Alice Frazer Evans (Author), Robert A. Evans (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787948004 | ISBN-13: 978-0787948009 | Publication Date: February 20, 2001 | Edition: 1

Part of the Peace Skills Set, this Leaders' Guide is designed to prepare people to lead Peace Skills workshops in their communities. It contains several suggested workshop designs to accommodate different workshop goals, lengths, and formats; clear guidelines for teaching with role plays, case studies and sacred texts; and a broad variety of cases, role plays and specific faith texts for group discussion.

Editorial Reviews

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"The focus on community transformation and self-conscious reliance on spiritual and moral resources make the Peace Skills material distinctive." (Dr. Thomas Hoyt, Bishop of CME Church and former professor of New Testament at Howard University, ITC, and Hartford Seminary)

"Our training has allowed Jacksonville to address issues in education, housing, and the enviroment. The program has equipped more than five hundred Jacksonville leaders to be agents of community transformation and has improved the quality and ownership of important public policy decisions." (Bill Scheu, lawyer and community leader, Jacksonville, Florida)

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Community Conflict Transformation (CCT) training helps communities and parties bogged down in what often seem to be irresolvable conflicts to build skills, achieve new levels of respect and empowerment, and develop mutually beneficial agreements. The Peace Skills Set (which includes the Leaders' Guide and Manual for Community Mediators) is based on the experiences and insights of mediators and trainers from four continents. The Leaders' Guide provides community leaders the tools and information they need to lead CCT training sessions and includes

• Examples and guidelines for using case studies to develop mediation skills
• Sacred and authoritative texts that promote moral, spiritual, and cultural values for building peace with justice.
• Models and designs of training workshops that effectively engage citizens in addressing their conflicts, restoring relations, and reforming structures

"The focus on community transformation and self-conscious reliance on spiritual and moral resources make the Peace Skills material distinctive."—Dr. Thomas Hoyt, Bishop of CME Church and former professor of New Testament at Howard University, ITC, and Hartford Seminary"Our training has allowed Jacksonville to address issues in education, housing, and the enviroment. The program has equipped more than five hundred Jacksonville leaders to be agents of community transformation and has improved the quality and ownership of important public policy decisions."—Bill Scheu, lawyer and community leader, Jacksonville, FloridaThe AuthorsAlice Frazer Evans and Robert A. Evans are international trainers and consultants in the field of conflict transformation. They are founding directors of Plowshares Institute and senior fellows at the Centre for Conflict Resolution, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Ronald S. Kraybill is associate professor in the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Kraybill was the former director of training at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa and founding director of the Mennonite Conciliation Service.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (February 20, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787948004
• ISBN-13: 978-0787948009
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,472,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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