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Leadership & Conflict

Resolution

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• Do you find yourself mediating disagreements between friends, teammates, and family members?
• Do you ever feel overwhelmed by conflicts among your friends?
• Would you like to develop the knowledge and skills needed to respond effectively?

Effective leaders must have the mediation and problem solving skills required for constructing non-violent and creative solutions to conflicts. This course is designed to deepen students’ understanding of personal, interpersonal and community conflict. Students will focus on their interactions at home, school and in their communities, and will study conflict from interpersonal and cultural perspectives.

Through experiential activities, real life case studies, simulations and discussions, students will develop skills in leadership, mediation, facilitation and group problem solving. Group research projects provide an opportunity to explore how these skills apply to specific situations, including school-based violence, relationships with peers and community conflict. As a capstone, students develop action plans for applying these skills in their home environments.

Students will leave the course with an understanding of how conflict escalates and the skills to be proactive in managing these tensions in their own lives, at school and in their communities.

Who are Leadership and Conflict Resolution students?

Students applying to this course are often interested in mediation, conflict resolution, counseling and peace studies. We look for students with a diversity of experiences, emotional maturity and a track record of interest in collaborative activities.

Curriculum

In this course, students will:

• Develop a greater awareness of their attitudes and values regarding conflict
• Discover ways that conflict can be a productive process which leads to constructive change
• Explore models for conflict resolution
• Develop skills for managing interpersonal conflict
• Discuss the factors which contribute to community conflict
• Explore how differences in power and status help to create or exacerbate conflict
• Develop the skills to deescalate conflict among groups of people
• Develop action plans for how they can apply these skills in their home environments

Dates

(Please note there are two different sessions of this course)

Leadership & Conflict Resolution - SO904-2EL

Leadership & Conflict Resolution - SO904-2FL