Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Lucy Henning, Isabel (Izzy) Cartwright and Ellis Brooks and was first published in December 2024. The course authors would like to acknowledge Woodbrooke Study Centre who created peace education programmes run in partnership with Quakers in Britain, that provided ideas and inspiration that fed into this course. Thanks also to Mirjam Hauck, Dominic Servis and the team at the OCLC for their support in creating this course.
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Course Image: Courtesy Quakers in Britain, www.quaker.org.uk
Figures
Figure 1: ricochet64/iStock/Getty Images Plus
Figure 2: Eoneren/Getty Images
Figure 3: Alex Scottish Mediation poster: courtesy of Scottish Mediation www.scottishmediation.org.uk
Figure 4: UNICEF’s Rights Respecting Schools poster The child rights ICONS poster Courtesy: Unicef www.unicef.org.uk www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/resources/teaching-resources/our-rights-poster/
Figure 5: Article 39 of the UNCRC www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/01/uncrc_su_unicef https://www.unicef.org/
Videos
Video 1: Introduction: ©The Open University (2024) with thanks to Quakers in Britain, www.quaker.org.uk, for images and video
Video 2: marked as 1 CRESST with Greystone’s Primary School, Sheffield. Peer mediation scheme www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Yq62oazbI&t=11s Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk
Video 3: listed as video 2 Mediation Skills for Life | Building Peace in Schools www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G7sLRkkkUE&ab_channel=QuakersinBritain.Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk
Video 5: listed as video 4: Peer Mediation in Scotland | Young Talk. Peer Mediation in Scotland/Young Talk. Courtesy: Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk
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