Dalai Lama Foundation - Community Picks

Here are my online recommendations. I have a particular interest in how technology can be used to enable our activities in supporting the growth of peace and ethics in the world, so these sites tend to be big databases of information. Pick any one of them and you can easily get immersed for an entire afternoon or evening looking at what's available. We have pulled many of the resources from these sites into our own knowledgebase, which you may search here at our web site.

• CRInfo:

(crinfo.org) This is a fantastic online source of links to both online and offline resources in areas related to conflict resolution. Established and maintained by the Conflict Research Consortium of the University of Colorado, it contains over 20,000 resources and was reorganized starting in 2003, making a version IV, to better serve the needs of educators. You can search this database online, and you can add the search capability to your own organization's web site.

• Beyond Intractability:

This is a free online educational/informational resource from which you can build your own curriculum or set of resources for learning or teaching about how to resolve intractable conflict. It contains a huge number of "articles" and pointers to resources.

• Ethics Resource Center (ethics.org) provides topical resources online as

well as an email newsletter Ethics Today Online. Their resource database includes articles, books, links, news, speeches and other materials. Materials are selected for their relevance to ethics generally, business and organizational ethics, character development and global ethics and integrity. Their database is also a good place to locate other organizations dealing with ethical issues.

• LearnPeace is operated by the Peace Pledge Union Project and contains some good curriculum materials. There are, of course, many online sites with curriculum materials, which we have put into our knowledgebase. This is just one of the more interesting examples!

• PeaceJam (peacejam.org) introduces kids to Nobel Peace

Prize winners and suggests lots of questions about violence, racism, oppression and prejudice, and what it means to be a peacemaker. This is a great resource for teachers as well as kids.

• The University for Peace (mediapeace.org) has a bunch of web pages containing research links, education links, media and news links, and bibliography. If you want to locate a group, particularly online, that's doing something you're interested in, you might start here.

• United Nations CyberSchoolbus (cyberschoolbus.un.org) "global teaching and learning project" provides a broad perspective, based on UN initiatives. This site helps kids focus on world issues such as landmines, human rights, and environment.

• Cultivating Peace is a site for teachers and parents concerned with educating for peace. Lots of classroom-ready peace resources and materials and lots of information for educators and students. A Canadian organization with broad reach.

• Development Gateway is another of those "wealth of data" web sites. DG holds data on issues like knowledge economy, science and technology, innovation, R&D, learning and information and communications technology. These are important issues in developing countries and regions. And you can sign up to have DG send you, by email, updated information when there's new

To see recommendations by other participants in the Dalai Lama Foundation Discover community, please return to our main Community Picks page.