This site brings together a number of resources for parents, librarians and teachers to use in fostering a non-violent culture beginning with our children.
Arkansas School Shooting Focuses New Attention on Youth Gun Culture. New Violence Policy Center document set details of the marketing and recruitment efforts by National Rifle Association and gun industry.
Ceasefire. Every day in this country,[USA] fifteen children are killed by firearms. More than 135,000 children carry a gun to school every day. In 1994, gun deaths were the third leading cause of death for children aged 5-14. If current trends continue, injuries by firearms will become the leading cause of death to children by the year 2003. Cease Fire, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization, is dedicated to saving lives by reducing the number of handgun-related deaths and injuries in this country.
Children in Southern Sudan Overcome War's Nightmare. This is a paper on the terrible tragedy of children faced with survival during a series of civil wars. Many were helped by Doctors Without Borders and still have hope for their futures.
Children of War. A non-profit organization, the Children of War, seeks to help the victims of war. Afghanistan needs an educated population in order to join the world as a proud, free and democratic nation, but without your help this dream will never become a reality.
Children's War Toys and Violent Games. This is a very brief, but excellent, paper on what parents might do to help their children avoid violence.
Global Children's Organization. This organization provides a summer camp program for children from Northen Ireland and from Bosnia and Croatia. The summer camp, staffed by students from US and Germany is on Badija Island in Croatia.
Impact of Armed Conflict on Children. Report of Graça Machel, Expert of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. In the past decade alone, an estimated 2 million children have been killed in armed conflict. Three times as many have been seriously injured or permanently disabled. Countless others have been forced to witness or even to take part in horrifying acts of violence.
Join Together Online: The Impact. This is a site that tracks the impact of guns and violence.
New Violence Policy Center (VPC) Study Labels NRA's Eddie Eagle "Gun Safety" Program "Joe Camel With Feathers." This Study details how the NRA's effort to hook kids on guns follows the trail blazed by tobacco industry. It reveals for the first time gun and tobacco industry funding of NRA.
Playing "Guns" in the Kindergarten Classroom. This is a series of email exchanges from the kinder-l listserv on the use and play with guns in the kindergarten.
Toys Are For Fun Y'all. This Taffy site is an excellent exploration of the issue of violent toys. The Mission of the Dallas Peace Center, based on the vision of reconciliation, is to promote research, education and action for peace and justice. Taffy is sponsored by the Mennonite Church as a part of the work of the Dallas Peace Center.
Second Step: Educating the Heart and Mind. The award-winning Second Step program teaches social and emotional skills for violence prevention. The program includes research-based, teacher-friendly curricula, training for educators, and parent-education components.
War Child. In the last decade alone 1.5 million children have died in wars. Four million have been disabled and a further 10 million traumatised. The severe psychological wounds that war inflicts on children can scar them for life, crippling the very generations that must one day re-build their devastated countries. For the future peace of the world we must do everything in our power to help these war children.
Start 'Em Young. A Report of the Violence Policy Center that explores the early recruitment of children to the gun culture.