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3.5 Peaceful Conflict Resolution

Social Studies · Grade 9 · 8 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Peace and types of peace for sustainable social interaction
  • Conflict: its meaning and causes
  • Barriers to conflict resolution in day-to-day life
  • Managing emotions to promote peace
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Applying emotional intelligence to resolve conflict peacefully
  • Methods of peaceful conflict resolution in the community
  • Peace initiatives and agreements at community level

What you will be able to do

  • explain types of peace for sustainable social interactions
  • identify barriers to conflict resolution in day-to-day lives
  • explore ways of managing emotions in the promotion of peace in the community
  • apply emotional intelligence for peaceful conflict resolutions in the community
  • embrace peace initiatives and agreements at the community level for harmonious living

Key questions

“How can we promote peace in the community?”

Lessons

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  1. Types of peace
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Personal, interpersonal, community, national and international peace, each built on the one inside.
  2. Conflict and its causes
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Conflict is normal; what matters is whether it is handled destructively or constructively.
  3. Barriers to resolving conflict
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Anger, pride, prejudice, mistrust, rumours and power: most barriers are inside people.
  4. Managing emotions for peace
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Emotions rise by stages: act while warm, and never settle a conflict while boiling.
  5. Emotional intelligence
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Know yourself, manage yourself, keep going, understand others, and work well with them.
  6. Using emotional intelligence to resolve conflict
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Cool down, listen, understand, find options, agree, follow up, and speak in I-statements.
  7. Methods of peaceful conflict resolution
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Discussion, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, courts, and the community structures that use them.
  8. Peace initiatives and agreements
    40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
    Peace committees, declarations, cohesion bodies, sport and schools: peace begins with me.