social conflict

Contains two dramatized vignettes that provide examples of how students should deal with conflicts with adults, the first involving a classroom argument between a student and a teacher, and the second in which a store owner believes students have stolen from him.

Explores effective ways of dealing with teasing and other forms of harassment through two vignettes: one about a teenage girl harassed by others for her appearance and another in which a softball player is shunned by her team.

Examines the public response and reaction to the Russian revolution in 1917 and the end of the Romanovs' rule, with documents that reveal the opinions and views of key political figures, as well as ordinary citizens.

Contains two detailed vignettes that demonstrate various types of sexual harassment and its consequences.

"People have been getting more emotional for years and many blame the media, lack of mental health services, and entitlement. There are entire industries that profit by stoking division, intolerance, and conflict. Those who learn to focus on the positive often feel better than those who focus on anger"--.

"Bo and Zop have been living together for a long time on their small spaceship. They have started to annoy each other. What can they learn from Earthlings about getting along?"--Provided by publisher.

"The year is 3070, and Marie Antoinette has just arrived at the glittering, thrilling palace of Versailles to marry the shy, soft-spoken Louis-Auguste. But beneath the luxurious world lies a sinister underbelly and an uncompromising elite who want to keep Marie and Louis pawns in a deadly game. Will history repeat itself? Or will these doomed lovers outwit their enemies and escape their grisly fate?"--From the publisher's web site.

High conflict is what happens when discord distills into a good-versus-evil kind of feud, the kind with an us and a them. The normal rules of engagement no longer apply: we feel increasingly certain of our own superiority and, at the same time, more and more mystified by the other side. Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict-- and how they break free. She interviews people who were drawn into high conflict, and shows how they found ways to rehumanize and recategorize their opponents, even as they continued to fight for what they knew was right.

". . . Valarie Kaur is a renowned Sikh activist and in this book, she argues that Revolutionary Love is the call of our times. When we practice love in the face of fear or rage, it has the ability to transform an encounter, a relationship, a community, a culture, even a country. Drawing from her personal experiences, Sikh wisdom, and the work of civil rights leaders of all kinds, Kaur has reenvisioned love as a public ethic: a commitment to loving others, opponents, and ourselves. She argues that this type of love is not a passing feeling; it is an act of will. It is an active, political, and moral response to violence, hate, and otherness. It is the choice to extend our will for the flourishing of others and ourselves. Grounded in Kaur's dramatic personal journey of practicing love in the face of political oppression, sexual assault, wrongful arrest, detention, racism, and murder, this important and timely book shows us a way to build movements that do not leave anyone behind. In an era defined by rage, Revolutionary Love is perhaps our greatest form of civil disobedience"--Provided by publisher.

"Children's Creative Response to Conflict." On t.p.: A handbook on creative approaches to living and problem solving for children.