Conflict resolution

Pupils learn the importance of dialogue, tolerance, respect and empathy and skills of communication, advocacy, negotiation, compromise and collaboration.

Extract from the DfES document Developing the global dimension in the school curriculum:

Understanding the nature of conflicts, their impact on development and why there is a need for their resolution and the promotion of harmony.

• knowing about different examples of conflict locally, nationally and internationally and different ways to resolve them;
• understanding that there are choices and consequences for others in conflict
• situations;
• understanding the importance of dialogue, tolerance, respect and empathy;
• developing skills of communication, advocacy, negotiation, compromise and collaboration;
• recognising conflict can act as a potentially creative process;
• understanding some of the forms racism takes and how to respond to them;
• understanding conflicts can impact on people, places and environments locally and globally.

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