What Conflict Resolution Education Offers Students

Violence Prevention and Responsible Student Conduct

• Conflict resolution education supports violence prevention policy by providing skills and processes for solving problems before they escalate to violence.
• Conflict resolution education helps individual students develop personal behavior management skills to act responsibly in the school community.
• Conflict resolution education helps students accept the consequences of their own behavior.

Law-related Education

• Conflict resolution education helps students understand the relationship between law, rights, personal and community responsibility.

Social and emotional skill development

• Conflict resolution education helps students incorporate personal relationship-building skills.
• Conflict resolution education helps students develop anger-management skills.
• Conflict resolution education helps students develop fundamental competencies (self control, self respect, empathy, teamwork) needed to make a successful transition into adulthood.

Improved intergroup relations

• Conflict resolution education helps young people acquire both the principles and the skills to respect others as individuals and group members.
• Conflict resolution education promotes responsible and productive intergroup relations in a pluralistic society.

Improved academic performance

• Conflict resolution training builds cognitive skills.
• Conflict resolution education builds students' confidence in their own personal capacities.

Responsible Citizenship

• Conflict resolution skills are basic to expressing concerns and interests in a peaceful and productive way, and provide students with the ability to solve problems for the mutual benefit of community members.