In the last year, the Western Justice Center provided more than 500 parents with conflict resolution education and training so they can effectively resolve conflicts in schools, and successfully overcome language and cultural barriers as they interact in the school system.
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For three consecutive years, the Western Justice Center has partnered with B.E.S.T. (Building Educational Success Through the Arts) Arts to explore the boundaries of conflict resolution education and the arts by training hundreds of preschool teachers to use the arts in their classrooms as peaceful tools to resolve conflict.
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The Western Justice Center trained representatives from Armenia, Bangladesh, Columbia, Egypt, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Uganda and Zimbabwe in effective conflict resolution methods and how to prevent ethnic - based conflicts.
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"Diana" is a teenager from the Los Angeles area. She has had previous "run-ins" with the
law and is involved in a boot camp program. She thought all police officers were
disrespectful and she did not understand why they hassled her.
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In the process of recruiting youth facilitators for a Pasadena Police Department and
community dialogue, I met "Peter" - a young man with limited facilitation skills who
was insecure about his ability to facilitate a potentially explosive interaction between
police and youth.
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