Peace One Day is a global effort to support an annual day of peace and cessation of violence worldwide. The non-profit project was launched in 1999 by British filmmaker Jeremy Gilley who developed a film documenting his efforts to establish the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date. The day was unanimously adopted by UN member states in 2001 as 21st September annually.

The...

The Family Violence Prevention Fund has produced a great new resource for coaches interested in raising healthy young men while promoting respect and the prevention of violence against women. The new...

A recent article in Computerworld magazine provides a nice plain english interview with political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita explaining his work using computers to predict conflict outcomes. In the interview Bueno de Mesquita describes the model he has developed for examining international conflicts based on...

The Confrontational Computing Project is a collaboration between Intel Research and the University of California at Berkeley. The project grows from the assumption that much of the web is built around opinions, arguments and beliefs presented in blogs, wikis, discussion forums, news articles and other forums.

The project is interested in the following kinds of questions:
How do people use the web to help...

The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) has been hosting the annual Conflict Resolution Day celebration since 2005, and this year is bound to be better than ever. College students are being encouraged to create 2-minute videos exploring the power of conflict resolution. In return, in addition to fame and promotion of a good cause, the winner gets a paid...

The program for the annual Summer Institute on Conflict Management in Higher...

The Peace Training Guide is a 68-page guide to peace education produced by a coalition of 13 European organizations focused on training for nonviolence and change. The coalition known as ARCA (Associations and Resources for Conflict Management Skills) held a series of meetings in 2006 and 2007 and produced the shared document, along with a...

The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, established in 1999 and based out of Geneva Switzerland, provides a forum for conflicting parties to resolve their differences peacefully. In line with its mission to reduce human suffering in war by preventing and resolving armed conflicts, the HD Centre also encourages and promotes dialogue and debate on challenging issues.

Its aim, as a forum for dialogue, is...

Dennis Rivers from newconversations.net has "modularized" his friendly communication skills workbook and made it available via the Connexions learning materials repository based out of Rice University.

The self-paced course entitled Communication Skills for Personal and Professional Development: The Seven Challenges Approach covers the...

This 6-minute YouTube video provides an excerpt from a longer interview with Richard Rubenstein. In the longer 58-minute interview, Rubenstein also...