What is conflict resolution?

“Choose” by Carl Sandburg THE single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

What is Sandburg trying to say about conflict and how it can be solved?

Are there only two ways to resolve a conflict?

With a partner Define and give examples of nonviolence and violence. Be prepared to discuss

On your own Think about how you solve conflicts. Why would some conflicts prompt violence while others can be solved peacefully?

Read “Monkeyman” Complete the 7 questions while reading Complete the back of the page as well

Discussion What does the narrator believe about his community at the beginning of the story, and how does he feel about it at the end. How do Monkeyman’s actions at the fight change the narrator?

Discussion Monkeyman solved his conflict with nonviolence. Do you think any conflict can be solved with nonviolence? War… Do you think conflict leads to change? Would the story “Monkeyman” have been as powerful with a different resolution? Why do you suppose Myers chose to have Monkeyman stabbed after the showdown in the park? Does this plot twist add to Monkeyman’s strength as a nonviolent role model?

Non-violence Around 1920, Mohandas K. Gandhi emerged as a leader of India’s independence movement. Gandhi had no desire to engage in an armed struggle with the British rulers of India. Instead, he persuaded his people to state non-violent protests.

Quotes from Gandhi “Thus non-violence is complete innocence. Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives.” “Non-violence is a perfect state.” “Man does not become divine when he personifies innocence in himself. Only then does he become truly man.”

“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.” “Each time I fail, my effort shall be all the more determined for my failure…” “Our pledge of non-violence excludes the possibility of future retaliation. Some of us seem unfortunately to have merely postponed the date of revenge.” “The choice, in my opinion, lies between honest non-violence with non-cooperation…”

What do these quotes mean? “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - Gandhi “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” - Emerson “Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”– Malcolm X “If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” – Malcolm X

“I Have a Dream” THE speech

Examples of violence/non-violence that we have covered Excerpt from Night page 942 Wiesel’s Acceptance Speech page 948 Excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar page 954 “Montgomery Boycott” page 970 Dr. King’s Eulogy page 981 Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech Gandhi’s “Nonviolence” Malcolm X quotes “Monkeyman”

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