Stand Up Activity 1 - How Do You Define Conflict?

HOW DO YOU DEFINE CONFLICT? tand p 12 months. 6 activities.

1 global movement.

junior branch

Introduction This is the first step of Stand Up! This step was designed to be an introduction to the peace education content area for 2015: Conflict and Resolution. This activity is going to be the foundation for the rest of the Stand Up activities, which will build upon this definition of conflict in more specific circumstances and instances. You do not however need to run each activity. They aren’t linked together, so you can pick and choose different steps that you feel fit your Junior Branch best! Learning about conflict and resolution helps us to understand how conflicts can arise deliberately or otherwise and what can be done to help bring about their peaceful resolution.

We hope you will enjoy this introductory step to Conflict and Resolution!

- Stand Up Committee Members

Activity’s Goal:

To create an understanding of what can be a conflict and how resolutions can apply to different situations.

A S K

Attitude - Willingness to participate in the stand-up activities.

- Willingness to learn about conflicts and keep an open mind when hearing the other side of it.

- Willingness to learn how to resolve conflicts fairly.

Skills - Ability to remain sensitive to others involved in conflict.

- Ability to accept and understand the other parties point of view.

- Ability to identify different types of conflicts and different types of resolutions.

Knowledge - Knowledge of what conflict is, what resolution is and how they fit together.

- Knowledge of what different types of conflicts there are and different ways to resolve them.

- Knowledge of how diversity plays a part in some conflicts.

The Activity Time: 80 minutes Number of Participants: Unlimited Materials: 6 Large Papers - Small Papers

(enough for each person to have one)

- Sticky Notes

(enough for each person doing the activity to have 6)

- Pens LY

ONAL PERS

LOCALLY

GLOB ALLY

Preparation Needed: 1. Put 2 large papers up on 3 walls (6 large papers in total).

2. For each wall, one paper should be titled “recently” and the other titled “a while ago”.

3. For each of the walls, label those papers: “personally”, “locally”, and “globally”.

Do: 20 Minutes Have participants define conflict individually on the small papers (5 minutes) Have the participants keep these papers, so they remember their definition Have each participant come up with one conflict for each of the six situations, individually, and have them write each conflict on a different sticky note.

For example: one conflict that happened recently that was personal, one conflict that happened a while ago that happened globally, etc.

After they have come up with their ideas, have them stick each of them on the large papers.

Break into small groups of 4 or 5 participants

Reflect: 10 Minutes Ask groups to discuss these questions: - What kind of situations/conflicts did you come up with?

- Are the situations you thought about only negative, or positive? Why do you think this is so?

- What does each situation that you came up with for the different papers have in common? Is there something drastically different for some or all of the conflicts you mentioned?

Join two small groups to form one group.

You may have multiple medium sized groups, or just one group depending on the amount of participants you have.

Generalize: 25 - 30 Minutes

Let everyone know that you will now be discussing some of the conflicts they came up with, and them more in-depth about resolution.

About their conflict: - How would the other side explain their perspective?

- Do you accept this other side of the story?

About resolution: - Ask participants to define resolution, and within the small groups they come up with a definition of resolution - Can conflict ever be separate from resolution? Can you have a resolution without a conflict?

- Are conflicts necessary?

Have participants come up with a list of different types of conflicts and different types of resolutions. Each group should write their lists down so that they remember them.

Have everybody come back into one large group for a big discussion

Apply: 20 Minutes Going back to the large scale conflict you thought of before, what are some ways it could be better resolved?

- Is it in the process of being resolved?

- What style of resolution are they using?

- Is it effective?

- Could it be more effective to use a different style or resolution?

Come back to the definition of conflict that the participants came up with at the beginning, ask participants to think about the many different types of conflict there are, and ask if they would like to alter their definition.

Ask if anyone has made any changes to their definitions, and if they would like to share them.

Come up with a group definition for what conflict is.

Why do you think CISV’s content area differentiates conflict AND resolution (instead of grouping them together to be conflict resolution)?

- Is it important to differentiate the two?

Why is an understanding of conflict and resolution important to keep in mind as active global citizens?

When we generalize in relation to conflict, what are some assumptions we make?

Tips for the Facilitators While it is a fairly simple activity for facilitators to run, we encourage facilitators to walk between groups and listen in on conversation, as well as engaging in the discussion if you feel it is appropriate. If the conversation is going very well for groups, we encourage you to extend the time of some questions so that everyone can participate and have a fulfilling discussion.

An important aspect of conflict and resolution to keep in mind for the activity is that it is very simple to preach good conflict behavior; however, it is often hard to do when you are angry, hurt, tired, or afraid. This could be a good piece of information to add into a discussion if it has not risen on it’s own.

Introducing Stand Up After the activity is over, please remember to present Stand Up to the group, so they can understand the educational purpose of the project and the content area of the year.

For example: Stand up aims to create educational activities for CISV's 2015 content area, Conflict and Resolution. There will be six ready-to-run activities released over the course of the year for chapters, JBs, schools, and anyone else who wants to run them!

Take Pictures!

Stand Up is an international project, part of the global movement that is Junior Branch. Let us know whenever you use a Stand Up activity in your chapter, or at any other event by taking pictures and sending them to: standup@ijb.cisv.org Please also let us know how many people participated. These pictures will be shared on our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cisvstandup

Feedback The Stand Up team is always looking for feedback about the activities. Send any pictures you have to standup@ijb.cisv.org, along with the number of participants who completed the activity.

We would appreciate if facilitators filled out this short evaluation form: http://goo.gl/S2kABi

Further Reading A TEDx talk on an interesting type of resolution: Restorative Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLuVeHlrSs

CISV’s start to the content area of Conflict and Resolution: http://goo.gl/IBMiuB

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