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Teaching Tolerance Resources for Parents, Guardians, Teachers, and Students

Southern Poverty Law Center
A non-profit organization that combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation.
http://www.splcenter.org/teachingtolerance/tt-index.html

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Teaching Tolerance Web site (new for spring 2001)
Web-based interactive lessons and games that K-12 educators, parents and children can use to foster an understanding and appreciation of differences.
http://www.tolerance.org


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Museum of Tolerance
Explore the Museum's exhibits, Arts and Lectures Series, Tools, for Tolerance and youth education.
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com


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The Peace Center
A non-profit organization whose mission is to educate, empower and support individuals and organizations in efforts to prevent violence, promote peaceful resolution of conflict and foster inclusive, equitable and safe communities locally, nationally and worldwide.
http://www.comcat.com/~peace/index.html


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International Tolerance Education Clearinghouse
A global link for resources, best practices and network's on Tolerance Education. This Clearinghouse allows organization and individuals working with children and youth to access available information on conflict resolution, Tolerance education, anti-bias, diversity and multi-cultural education.
http://www.fotun.org/toleranceed.htm


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NCA 2001 Summer Conference
"Engaging 21st Century Communication Students" Proceedings from the Service-Learning Strand
http://www.natcom.org/Instruction/summerconf/sl.htm


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101 Ways to Combat Prejudice
To help protect our children, Barnes & Noble and the Anti-Defamation League joined forces to launch, in September 2000, the Close the Book on Hate campaign.
http://www.adl.org/prejudice/default.asp


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Unit for Tolerance
UNESCO
How do we achieve tolerance, fifty years after the signatories of the United Nations Charter resolved to "practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours", and more than two hundred years after Voltaire led his fervent philosophical battle against religious intolerance and the bigotry and injustice that it legitimized?
http://www.unesco.org/tolerance/


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The ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
This directory provides a representative sampling of programs that offer training in prejudice reduction, conflict resolution, and violence prevention to young people in their schools and communities, and to the people who work with them. It also includes a multimedia resource list.
http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/

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A National Tragedy: Promoting Tolerance and Peace in Children
Tips for Parents and Schools. This handout from the National Association of School Psychologists may be used by other organizations without receiving specific permission.
http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/tolerance.html


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The Southern Institute Anti-Bias Teacher Education Project
The Holocaust, the Civil Rights movement, and other similar historical events can be used as case studies to help young people understand the need to oppose intolerance by actively promoting a more diverse and just society.
http://www.tulane.edu/~so-inst/toleranc.html


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The Colorado School Mediation Project
We need anti-bias education as part of our education curriculum because behaviors associated with prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping, and scapegoating are expressed in all aspects of our society.
http://www.csmp.org/


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Columbia University Directory of Anti-Bias Education
Resources and Services
http://www.racematters.org/colunivdirantibiasedressvcs.htm

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The International Network Education for Democracy, Human Rights, and Tolerance
http://www.tolerance-net.org/index1.html


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National Association for Multicultural Education
Advocates for Educational Equity and Social Justice
http://www.nameorg.org/


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United Nations Peace Education
Peace education is "directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms". It promotes "understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups" and
furthers "the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace." (Article 26, Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/index.asp


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Story Session Plans from the Classroom
http://its.monmouth.edu/TheStoryTellingProject/session_plans.html


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The Tolerance Project
A collaborative web resource for learning and teaching how to understand, create, nurture, and find tolerance.
http://www.ccsf.edu/Resources/Tolerance/


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European Commission against Racism and Intolerance

http://www.coe.int/t/E/human_rights/ecri/


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2003 Gandhi & King: A Season for Nonviolence
A Season for Nonviolence, January 30 - April 4, is a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. Inspired by the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this international event honors their vision for an empowered, nonviolent world.
http://www.agnt.org/snv02.htm


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Who Lives Here (tolerance)
http://www.wholiveshere.com/


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Teaching Tolerance: Strategies That Work
Teaching students to understand and respect differences is "the only alternative we have" in an increasingly diverse society, says Glenda Valentine, training coordinator for Teaching Tolerance, the educational program of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
http://www.student-wea.org/misc/tchtolst.htm


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Tolerance and Prejudice
This blog serves as a platform for those involved in the 'Tolerance and Prejudice' project to publish their thoughts on these themes immediately on the Net. The main objective of this blog is to enable people to be reflective on and to call others attention to news
items, articles which are relevant to the project and to let people make their voice heard. 
http://www.prejudice.blogspot.com/


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Evidence of Democratic Practices in Our Schools

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/CMathison/truths/truths.html



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The Ghetto Fighters' House
Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, Israel
http://www.gfh.org.il/


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Racism Stop It
http://www.pch.gc.ca/march-21-mars/main_e.shtml


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Bigchalk
http://www.bigchalk.com/cgibin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/Homework/High_School/Resource/
Personal_Skills/Dealing_With_Conflict/Prejudice_Racism_68262.html


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Discussing Hate and Violence with your Children
Anti-Defamation League

http://www.adl.org/issue_education/Hate_and_violence.asp


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Cultural Diversity & Identity
http://www.takingitglobal.org/discuss/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=19


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No Place for Hate Resolution of Respect
http://www.adl.org/prejudice/form_resolution_of_respect.asp



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WHAT CAUSES VIOLENCE IN AMERICA TODAY ???
http://www.tttc.org/projects/WWILSON/index.htm


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Stop Violence
StopViolence collects resources about non-repressive responses to a variety of violence, including school shootings, sexual assault, and hate crimes. The
underlying belief of StopViolence is that punishment after a crime is not effective crime prevention; a safe and peaceful society requires justice, not
overdoses of prison, chain gangs and executions.
http://www.stopviolence.com/

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Newspapers In Education -Anne Frank Series
http://www.sptimes.com/nie/nieanne.html

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Facing Facts Prejudice
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/ORTESOL2000web/prejudicesampler.html

 

 

Page updated: 29-May-2006

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