Multicultural/Cultural/Global/Peace Education
& Conflict Management

• Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS)
  This site features a database of more than 2500 records with information about educational media for use in learning and teaching about Asia. Also available here is the AEMS newsletter; information about AEMS learning modules, videos, and other teaching materials; reviews of classroom materials; and a set of well-organized links to other Internet resources.
   
• The Peace Center
  Library of peace education/conflict resolution materials, annotated list of peace education programs, plus a checklist for stereotyping awareness.
   
• The Center for Teaching International Relations (CTIR) at the University of Denver
  Based at the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), CTIR links academic research with community needs by developing internationally-oriented programs and publications to support professional educators. The Web site offers a resource library for teachers; information about both student programs and teacher education; and the CTIR publications catalog of materials on area studies, civics, economics and environment, global issues, reading and writing, art, cultural studies, geography, and history.
   
• Diversity Database
  From the University of Maryland, this database is a "comprehensive index of multicultural and diversity resources." Particularly useful for planning multicultural and diversity efforts in higher education, the diversity plans and statements, diversity news bureau, diversity reference resources, college/university syllabi, and related materials listed in the database have other applications in education as well.
   
• East Asian Resources for Students and Teachers
  Compiled by the East Asian Studies Center (EASC) of Indiana University, this site offers lesson plans, teaching guides, background information, links, and other materials for teaching about China, Japan, Korea, and Asia in general.
   
• Educators for Social Responsibility: Resolving Conflict Creatively Program
  Strategies and guidelines to create peace and confront prejudice; instructional books, videos, and activities.
   
• Global SchoolNet Foundation
  "Linking Kids Around the World" is the motto displayed on this website. The resources and information on the site enable teachers, parents, and students to connect with classroom teachers and students around the world, join existing global education projects (such as International Schools CyberFair), or develop their own global education projects.
   
• Global TeachNet
  A project of the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), Global TeachNet's goal is to promote students' knowledge of, understanding of, and respect for the people, cultures and nations of the world. Offers teaching resources, professional development workshops, teacher awards, and other resources for global educators.
   
• Indian Hill Primary School Kids Peace Museum
  Child-created exhibit galleries with art and writings with peace themes.
   
• Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections (IECC)
  St. Olaf College hosts several free electronic mailing lists for teachers and classes interested in establishing classroom pen-pal and project exchanges through e-mail. This site provides information about subscribing to and using these lists and links to websites of other international e-mail classroom connection projects.
   
• Islam Guide: A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam, Muslims, and the Quran
   
• Kidlink
  Kidlink is a non-profit grassroots organization aimed at getting youth through the age of 15 involved in global dialog via public mailing lists, a private network for real-time interactions such as chats, and an on-line art exhibition site. Kidlink is supported by volunteers, mainly teachers and parents; over 100,000 children in 117 countries have participated in Kidlink since it began operation in 1991. This website extensively describes the history and structure of Kidlink and how to join.
   
• Multicultural Book Review Homepage
  This website features a collection of concise reviews by educators of multicultural literature suitable for use K-12 classrooms.
   
• Multicultural Calendar
  Part of the "Kidlink" organization's Website, this calendar of holidays of  different cultures is searchable by month, holiday, country, and author (submitter of the entry to the calendar). Also provides links to tips on incorporating calendar information into curriculum.
   
• Multicultural Pavilion at University of Virginia
  Teaching resources, research, conference information, and other resources on multicultural education.
   
• National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) Position on Global Education
  The full text of the NCSS position statement on K-12 global education, developed by the International Activities Committee of NCSS, is provided in this section of the NCSS website.
   
• The Native Web
  According to its website, NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications disseminate information from, about, and between native or Indigenous nations, peoples and organizations around the world.
   
• National Museum of the American Indian
  One of the museums of the Smithsonian Institution.
   
• Network of Educators on the Americas (NECA)
  According to their Web site, NECA is a Washington, D.C.-based not-for-profit organization that "promotes peace, justice, and human rights nationwide through critical, anti-racist, multicultural education." The Web site features NECA's catalog of K-12 books, videos and posters for teaching from a social justice perspective; a schedule of workshops, courses, and institutes held for teachers in the Washington, D.C. area; and excerpts from and descriptions of several NECA teaching resources; and links to essays and sites about current events not typically covered by mainstream media.
   
• Online Modules for Global Educators
  From The Ohio State University educator Merry Merryfield, the modules feature online resources about Africa, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Slavic & Eastern Europe.
   
• Retanet: Resources for Teaching About the Americas
  An outreach project of the Latin America Data Base (LADB) and a part of the Latin American Institute at the University of New Mexico. RETAnet works with secondary teachers, educational specialists, and scholars to make accessible resources and curriculum materials about Latin America, the Spanish Caribbean, and the U.S. Southwest. A vital component of RETAnet is communications technology using computers and the Internet.
   
• SPICE (Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education)
  An outreach program of the Institute for International Studies (IIS) at Stanford University, SPICE provides up-to-date curriculum materials on international topics for grades 6-14. The SPICE website consists of an on-line version of the SPICE publications catalog, which includes curricular materials on contemporary world issues, world cultures, world geography, and world history. The site also features the full-text of several free, introductory lesson plans, and the annual newsletter "SPICE Connections."
   
• Teaching Human Rights Online (THRO)
  The "Educators' Guide" component of this site includes teaching notes for instructors, study guides for students, reports on online simulations and professional development, and a bibliography. The "Case Library" component of this site provides abstracts of abstracts of currently available human rights cases from Bosnia and Rwanda to Burma and India. The site also features a Chat forum.
   
• Teaching Tolerance
  This project of the Southern Poverty Law Center develops classroom resources and activities to help foster equity, respect, and understanding in the classroom and beyond.
   
• Tolerance.org
  This Web site is project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a national non-profit civil rights organization that promotes tolerance and diversity and combats hate and discrimination through education, investigation and litigation. The site provides news, practical steps and solutions for encouraging tolerance, and engaging exercises that teach and prompt personal soul-searching.
   
• Understanding Islam and Muslims
   
• United Nations CyberSchoolBus
  Curriculum, activities, and resources on the United Nations (UN), numerous nations, and international events and days of commemoration. Also featured is information on the Model UN, a simulation of the UN system; and the UN Publications' Educational Bookstore.
   
• United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Teaching Materials
  aimed to provide primary and secondary school teachers with ready-made and fully-detailed unit and lesson plans which incorporate refugee issues into the curriculum.
   
• United States Institute of Peace
  Articles on global peace issues, directory of funded projects, links to other peace  organizations, publication reviews.
   
• Walk a Mile in My Shoes Multicultural Curriculum Resources
  A sample of Web sites related to the K-5 "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" curriculum of Troy City (New York) School 14.
   
• Workable Peace
  This site presents information and resources pertaining to Workable Peace, a curriculum on history and conflict management for high school classes which aims to help teenagers understand why intergroup conflicts start, why some of these conflicts lead to violence, and how violent intergroup conflicts can be prevented and ended.
   
• The World Bank Teachers and Students Homepage
  Learning materials; a quiz; introductions to global issues such as gender, energy, AIDS, poverty, and climate change; views on development from people around the world; and facts about countries and regions.
   
• World Pen Pals
  This website features a printable pen pal application form for individual students (grades 5-12) and contact information for teachers interested in group rates for their classrooms.
   
• World Wise Schools
  Integrates global education into daily activities, including lesson plans for grades 3-5, 6-9, and 10-12. Looking at Ourselves and Others.