Conflict Resolution Website Resource List

Deborah DavisEDUC7461

Conflict Resolution Website Resource List

This document provides “a resource list of 25-30 professional organization websites” (Black 2014, p. 1). The tabular format is provided strictly for legibility.

Topic: / ACCREDITATION
Organization: / National Council for the Accreditation for Teacher Education
Counsel for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation
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Brief Description: / Represents an unbiased third party to provide evaluation of institutions for accreditation. Has a strict anti-bias policy, and an elaborate in-house review system to resolve any potential conflicts.
Topic: / ACCREDITATION
Organization: / The Higher Learning Commission
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Brief Description: / Provides facilitation between students and/or parents and accredited institutions. Will not advocate for either party, nor mediate disputes.
Topic: / ADVOCATES
Organization: / Alliance Defending Freedom
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Brief Description: / Advocates for the preservation of Christians discriminated against with the United States. Represents an inclusion of Christianity in an ever diversifying perspective on free speech in the public forum.
Topic: / ADVOCATES
Organization: / HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION
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Brief Description: / Staunch advocates for the rights of parents to school their own children. Encourages conflict resolution education within families using a method of prevention of conflict and grace within.
Topic: / ADVOCATES
Organization: / Peacemaker Ministries
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Brief Description: / Advocates for making peace through Biblical principles. Has an online conflict resolution tool and guide to local Christian Counselors.
Topic: / ADVOCATES
Organization: / Citizens United Foundation
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Brief Description: / Advocates for literal Constitutionalism, family as the foundation of the nation, and a return to Judeo-Christian values as a nation.
Topic: / ADVOCATES
Organization: / Foundation for Moral Law
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Brief Description: / With a focus on the “inalienable right to acknowledge God,” the foundation advocates for public reminders of the Godly foundation of the nation, and encourages as return to that foundation as a focus of peaceful resolution.
Topic: / ADVOCATES
Organization: / Conservative Legal Defense Education Fund CLDEF
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Brief Description: / Advocates for literalist constructs of Constitutionality first and foremost and promotes reference to the text for resolution of any disputes.
Topic: / COMMUNICATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / Relational Wisdom 360
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Brief Description: / Focused on preventing conflict by building healthy relationships rather than trying to resolve conflict in unhealthy relationships.
Topic: / COMMUNICATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / National Parent Teachers Association (PTA)
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Brief Description: / Believes the onus is on the parents to make the schools safer by working with the children on peaceful conflict resolution. Provides a “Resolutions Toolkit” for teachers and parents to fulfill this promise.
Topic: / COMMUNICATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
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Brief Description: / Promotes literacy of English language to foster understanding through better communication.
Topic: / CURRICULUM ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America
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Brief Description: / Created the STOP the Violence campaign curriculum, meaning Students Take on Prevention – and teaching warning signs of pending threats, appropriate reporting, educating peers
Topic: / CURRICULUM FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / The Association for Conflict Resolution
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Brief Description: / Expands knowledge of conflict resolution to better enable individuals to resolve their own conflicts. Provides standards for professional roles in conflict resolution.
Topic: / CURRICULUM ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / National Rural Education Association (NREA)
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Brief Description: / Presents opportunities for resolution through communication and sponsors research to reduce conflict particularly between the rural and urban communities.
Topic: / CURRICULUM ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / National Education Association (NEA)
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Brief Description: / Believes “aggressive students undermine learning for others” and present peaceful resolution curricula and mediation to reduce aggression in the classroom and the community.
Topic: / CURRICULUM ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / National Academy of Education (NAEd)
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Brief Description: / Professional development to prepare the “next generation of scholars.” Developed a curriculum for inclusion in liberal arts curriculum of the 4Rs – Reading, Writing, Respect, and Resolution.
Topic: / CURRICULUM ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / Learning Forward
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Brief Description: / Creates higher learning opportunities for educators, specifically a curriculum on “Conflict Resolution: Common goals override individual interests.”
Topic: / CURRICULUM ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
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Brief Description: / A branch off the AFL-CIO, the AFT is a professional union for educators from pre-K through collegiate and retirees. Created the National Peace Academy for the resolution of conflicts – personal, local, national, and international.
Topic: / CURRICULUM ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Organization: / Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
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Brief Description: / Focused on developing curriculum to “support the success of each learner.” Literally wrote the book on “Reducing School Violence through Dispute Resolution,” a lesson for learners of all ages.
Topic: / CURRICULUM ON CONFLICT RESOLUCTION
Organization: / The College Board
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Brief Description: / Advocate for disparate access to education via grants, student aid, etc. Created an Advanced Placement (AP) course in Peace Conflict Resolution Studies for high school curricula.
Topic: / MEDIATORS
Organization: / Education Commission of the States
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Brief Description: / Resolves disputes between educational institutions and state level governance to provide uniformity of education nationwide.
Topic: / MEDIATORS
Organization: / Teach for America
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Brief Description: / Defending the values that make strong teachers, and keeping the focus on students in the classroom.
Topic: / MEDIATORS
Organization: / Christian Counseling Education Foundation (CCEF)
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Brief Description: / Advocates for the role of Christ and the Church in conflict resolution.
Topic: / MEDIATORS
Organization: / American Association of Christian Counselors
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Brief Description: / Provides insights and education to the entire “community of care” to aid “hurting persons” through a faith-based counseling approach.
Topic: / MEDIATORS
Organization: / Academy of Professional Family Mediators
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Brief Description: / Provides mediation to families in conflict including drug and estate related issues, marital conflicts, and financial issues.

References

Bossie, D. (Ed.). (2013, January 1). Citizens United Foundation - Promoting Traditional American Values.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Durán, M. (Ed.).(n.d.).Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Eskelsen-García, L. (2014, January 1). National Education Association Home.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Farris, M. (2014, January 1). HSLDA: Homeschooling Advocates since 1983. Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Feuer, M. (n.d.).National Association of Educaiton.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Gellman-Danley, B. (Ed.). (2014, January 1). Higher Learning Commission.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Harless, M. (Ed.). (2012, January 1). Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Hill, J. (Ed.). (2014, January 1). National Rural Educators Association.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Hirsh, S. (2014, January 1). Learning Forward - Professional Learning for Student Results.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Jones, J. (Ed.). (2012, January 1). Relational Wisdom 360.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Kolman, M. (n.d.).Association for Conflict Resolution.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Moore, K. (Ed.). (2013, January 1). The Foundation For Moral Law. Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Morrell, E. (Ed.). (2014, January 1). National Council of Teachers of English.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Pyne, D. (Ed.). (n.d.). Peacemaker Ministries Home - Peacemaker Ministries. Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Sears, A. (n.d.). Alliance Defending Freedom - For Faith.For Justice.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Spavone, S. (Ed.). (2014, January 1). Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Thornton, O. (Ed.). (n.d.).National Parent Teacher Association.Retrieved October 27, 2014.

Weingarten, R. (Ed.). (2014, January 1). American Federation of Teachers.Retrieved October 27, 2014.