International Day of Peace Resources to use with the Lesson Plan
Multimedia Resources to use with the International Day of Peace Lesson Plan
Short Films
The Sunrise Storyteller follows the hero's journey of teenage filmmaker & social justice advocate, Kasha Sequoia Slavner. (1:54 min. run time)
Award Winning Director Tiffany Shlain: Her revision of the Declaration of Independence as A Declaration of Interdependence! (4:18 min. run time)
A grieving father overcomes tragedy by creating something beautiful in his son's name - Tariq Khamisa. (7:45 min. run time)
Dragan Kisin became a a community leader and non-violence advocate after joining the Be a Man club in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Banja Luka. (8:35 run time)
Save Our Streets organization works to prevent violence from happening to the youths of Crown Heights. (3:06 min. run time)
When despair for the world grows in me… ...I come into the peace of wild things. ~Wendell Barry (1:17 min. run time)
A soldier goes to the front during World War I, whose horrors make him realize that the enemy is actually war itself. (1:10 min. run time)
What happens when a mosque moves across the street from a church in the Bible Belt? (5:09 min. run time)
Nashville students, Queen McElraths how love afor Michael Brown and the people of Ferguson Missouri. (3:17 min. run time)
This documentary sheds light on the "Womens Peace Movement of Liberia," and celebrates these unsung heroes. 5:14 min. run time
Using the safety of the family circle to heal a nation. (2:12 min. run time)
Beyond Right & Wrong explores how survivors move on from violent conflict and become heroes of peace. (5:13 min run time)
Defying death in South Sudan. Featuring Humanitarian Hero Award Winner Ken Payumo. (7:24 min. run time)
A civil rights activist, Mohammad Jibran Nasir, sparks a social revolution after almost 140 children were killed in the Peshawar Army School tragedy. (8:26 min. run time)
Ron Kovic is an accomplished author, painter, and activist who has worked for world peace over the last 40 years. (4:23 min. run time)
Olympian Johann Olav Koss embarked on a remarkable journey to use sports to improve the lives of African children. (6:37 min. run time)
Mohamed Sidibay is a survivor of a horrific civil war in Sierra Leone, where he was forced to fight as a child soldier. Now he advocates for better access to education worldwide. (2:48 min. run time)
Stories
Kaitlyn McFarland was a finalist in the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Poetry Contest for her poem about Malala
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