Making the Peace: A 15-Session Violence Prevention Curriculum for Young People
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Book details
- Author
- Oakland Men's Project
- Imprint
- Hunter House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Education › Behavioral Management
Education › Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Education › Schools › Levels › Secondary - Topics
- youth violence · high school students · dating violence · sexual harassment · gangs · self-esteem · interracial tension · classroom curriculum
- ISBN-13
- 9780897932059 (Paperback)9781630267292 (Hardcover)
About the authors
PAUL KIVEL is a social justice educator, activist, and writer who co-founded the Oakland Men’s Project, a community education organization dedicated to preventing male violence, and has been a leader in violence prevention for more than four decades. His recent books include Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart, and Making the Peace.
Kivel’s Uprooting Racism received the 1996 Gustavus Myers Award for Human Rights.
Paul lives in Oakland, California.
ALLAN CREIGHTON (April 23, 1946 – July 8, 2013) was a social justice activist and violence prevention educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a co-founder of both the Oakland Men’s Project and Men Overcoming Violence (MOVE) in San Francisco. His co-authored works include Making the Peace and Helping Teens Stop Violence, with contributions to Young Men’s Work and Making Allies, Making Friends.
Creighton served as a staff member of the TODOS: Sherover Simms Alliance Building Institute and as a social justice and violence prevention health educator at the University of California, Berkeley.