Activity
Create a Peace Treaty
In this activity, students will create a peace treaty as a class and come up with guidelines for how they will manage conflict.
What You Need:
What You Do:
- Ask if students have ever heard the term, “peace treaty” before. As a class, define what a peace treaty is. If needed offer this definition: An agreement to come to peace and end conflict.
- Share that today your class will be creating a peace treaty together to help manage conflict and support friendship.
- Introduce the Peace Treaty worksheet and read through it together:
- I, ………………………. (first student) agree to:
- 1. First calm myself and grow peace inside, and wait until emotions are calm to have a discussion with the classmate(s) I feel tension with.
- 2. Not say or do anything that will grow anger in myself or others.
- 3. Set up a time with the help of my teacher to meet with the classmate(s) through writing them a peace note (go over what the peace note says in the handout).
- 4. Look at what I may have done to contribute to the situation before I meet with my classmate(s) and apologize before we meet.
- I, ………………………. (second student) agree to:
- 1. Respect my classmate’s feelings.
- 2. Understand that even if I didn’t mean to hurt my classmate, my actions may still have hurt them.
- 3. Wait until we both have calmed down so we can talk about what happened.
- 4. Write a note back to my classmate to let them know I will meet with them.
- 5. Reflect on how I hurt my classmate and what I can do to make things right.
- I, ………………………. (first student) agree to:
- Have students make any changes they feel necessary to the peace treaty.
- Write out the treaty on chart paper and have each student sign the peace treaty.
Meena Srinivasan, MA, National Board Certified Teacher, is a leader in the fields of Mindful Awareness Practices (MAP) and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). She is the author of Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness In and Out of the Classroom (Parallax Press, 2014) and SEL Everyday: Integrating Social and Emotional Learning With Instruction in Secondary Classrooms (Norton, 2019).
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