Other Resources
This film – complete with an attached study guide – aims to change the national narrative of division. It is inspired by the teachings and writings of The Most Reverent Bishop Michael Curry – best known for his passionate sermon about “The Power of Love” at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — who serves as Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church.
This center fosters partnerships between government and faith-based organizations and increases the nation’s resilience by creating trust and strengthening relationships. More specifically, this branch of the DHS promotes whole community participation in disaster emergency response and recovery by utilizing existing infrastructure and empowering faith and community leaders.
This guide is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It is intended to assist individuals in mitigating dangerous and hateful speech.
The article by David French explores the distinction between Christian nationalism and Christian patriotism, addressing the question of "should Christians be patriotic?" and what faith can tell us about engagement in public life.
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/frenchpress/discerning-the-difference-between/
This 2000 film provides a clear understanding of the work done by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission as part of successful process to negotiate the end of Apartheid and avoid a civil war. Truth and Reconciliation Commission have been used in many countries following conflict or to address past injustices. In Canada, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to remedy the injustices and attempted systematic annihilation of the Indigenous population through its residential boarding schools system.
While not a congregation, the Of Many Institute at NYU is a stunning example of interfaith dialogue and has produced the documentary “Of Many” as an inspiring example of the power of working together across faith lines. The pioneering initiative started in 2012, with co-founders of international prestige from across faith lines, including Chelsea Clinton and Khalid Latif.
This is an award-winning PBS documentary series showing how ordinary people in Northern Ireland were willingly and unwillingly sucked into the violence of “the Troubles” and how it changed their lives forever. There are five episodes of approximately 55 minutes each. It is from the producers of the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning “Once Upon a Time in Iraq.”
Project Overzero provide multiple resources for conflict prevention, including resources on conflict sensitive communication, community response planning, and primers on key psychological and social concepts that influence identity-based violence and division.
This is a documentary from Resetting the Table. Subtitled “a short film uncovering the humanity beneath our national conflicts,” the film tells the story of a group of Americans with contrasting political perspectives engaging in political discussions in order to confront their disagreements and uncover mutual concerns and experiences that underlie their positions. It was filmed in rural Wisconsin and Iowa.
This short guide produced by The Carter Center is intended to provide resources to election officials to help support their own well-being and the well-being of their colleagues and teams. The guide contains information about the signs and impacts of trauma; techniques for the promoting resiliency and recovery; mental health support near you; online security tips and toolkits.
The idea for an online resource center came during the training course “Train the Trainers – It’s Up to Me 4” that was held in 2017 in Germany. During the past four years of conducting this training course, we have been collecting learning materials for the participants from a variety of sources – books that we have read, videos that we have seen, guides that we have developed. However, the resources we had did not meet the needs of the participants and their need for specific learning materials. Google Drive materials which were collected for several years in the form of scattered materials here and there were obviously indicative of the need for a more structured and well-organized resource center from which trainers could develop their skills and competencies.
A selection of books from the Next Big Idea Club covering topics such as social media, brain science, escaping conflict traps, and talking with “people who defy reason.”
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/9-books-polarization-fix/30019/