LibGuides: Peace and Conflict Studies: Open Educational Resources

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open educational resources (OERs) are teaching resources available in a variety of formats that have an open copyright license. This allows anyone to use, adapt and share them as needed.

Open educational resources and open pedagogy have many benefits for both faculty and students.

Allowing faculty to adapt teaching materials to match the content of their courses.
Providing students the opportunity to create, collaborate, and share their learning.
Lowering the cost of education making it more accessible and affordable for all.

See our UML Open Educational Resources Guide to find out how UM Libraries can support you in your use of these materials.

The next section lists some relevant Peace and Conflict Studies resources from the OER by Discipline Guide edited by U of M Librarians.

Peace and Conflict Studies OERs

Navigating the Space Between Us: Finding Connection, while Embracing the Continua of Difference: A Dilemma Driven Conflict Analysis
This textbook was developed for an upper year undergraduate conflict resolution course. The chapters are combined with other readings on conflict resolution values and ethics. The authors request an instructor adopting or adapting this OER textbook to fill out the form and help them understand your use.

Includes: List of dilemmas and questions to be investigated, examples
Conflict Resolution Trainers’ Manual
“A comprehensive guide running for highly successful Conflict Resolution sessions. It offers teaching material, group and individual exercises and handouts for over 50 hours of instruction on the 12 skills of Conflict Resolution. Each chapter starts with clear guidelines for constructing training slots of different lengths. It will be invaluable for a new trainer and will refresh and inspire even the most experienced trainer’s material. The most successful style for teaching CR skills is highly interactive and this manual shows you exactly how to achieve this.”

Includes: Handouts, discussion questions, exercises
Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking
This textbook focuses on improving public speaking skills, emphasizing ethics in communication. Reviews are available at the Open Textbook Library.

Includes: Exercises, key takeaways
The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding
This open access book provides a critical account of the social mechanisms that make up the peacebuilding field and offers deep insights into the workings of Western domination and global inequalities.
Peace and Democratic Society
This open access book highlights the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted explanations for violence—including the idea that the world is experiencing a ‘clash of civilizations’— the author makes a plea for a global, multilateral debate on the causes of conflict, and an understanding of the multiple identities of the individuals involved. Please note that the more restrictive CC BY NC ND license means that it cannot be adapted or remixed.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century: A Living Document in a Changing World
This open access book offers a 21st-century commentary on the original Universal Declaration of Human Rights document, furthering the work of human rights and illuminating the ideal of global citizenship.
Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law
This open access book analyzes issues in human rights law from a variety of perspectives by eminent European and Asian professors of constitutional law, international public law, and European Union law. Please note that the more restrictive CC BY NC ND license means that it cannot be adapted or remixed.
History Education and Conflict Transformation
This Open Access edited volume discusses the effects, models and implications of history teaching in relation to conflict transformation and reconciliation from a social-psychological perspective.