Resources - Books & Videos


The Peace Company:

The Peace Book by Louise Diamond. This book offers 108 ways to create a more peaceful world. The interesting thing about the book is that it cannot be bought in bookstores. They are sold in boxes of 30 to be distributed as gifts to your family, friends and colleagues, paying only the basic cost of the book - $3 each, or $90 for a box plus shipping and hand. www.peacebook.com


Nonviolent Communication:
Check out their website for a variety of books and videos. For instructions on how to order go to: www.cnvc.org/matls.htm or call: 1-800-255-7696
The following are recommended:

Video
The Basics of Nonviolent Communication, an introductory training with Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. This is a 2 tape, 3 hour edited version of a one-day training. VHS order# nvc157

Books
Nonviolent Communication: a Language of Compassion by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. Available in 9 languages. $17.95 order# 133

The Giraffe Classroom by Nancy Sokol Green order# nvc104.

Nonviolent Communication Workbook for Individual and Group Practice by Lucy Leu
$20 - order# nvc156

The Compassionate Classroom: relationship based teaching & learning by Sura Hart
www.k-hcommunication.com



Powerful Non-Defensive Communication:

Taking the War Out of Our Words by Sharon Ellison www.pndc.com


Restorative Justice:
Introduction to Conferencing describes the Community Conferencing now being used extensively with juvenile offenders in New Zealand. It interviews a range of participants including victims, offenders, judges, police officers and family members. http://www.realjustice.org/Pages/booksvideos.html



Center for Mediation in Law:

Saving the Last Dance: Mediation Through Understanding, This is a mediation training video, produced by The Center for Mediation in Law incollaboration with the Harvard Program on Negotiation. The video demonstrates the Center's Understanding-Based Model of mediation. It involves a conflict between a dance company and its recently discharged artistic director, the video alternates between excerpts from the mediation itself and an educational commentary.

Excerpts for viewing, as well as purchasing information, can be found on the Center's web site: http://www.mediationinlaw.org