This guide describes the many ways to teach bias reduction and violence prevention in order to help schools, community and religious leaders, and parents decide which project is best for their children. Some projects take the practical position that people in a diverse society simply must learn how to keep from acting on their prejudices. They believe that once people become used to controlling their public expressions of hatred, they will naturally become more broad-minded. Other projects have the reverse perspective -that changes in people's behavior commonly follow changes in attitutde. These projects try to change people's beliefs.
Some projects assume that the cause of prejudice is the same regardless of who is targeted.
They help people to stop victimizing other individuals or groups. A few projects also talk to students about working for social and political changes to increase equality in this country. These projects are usually a part of a larger organization that helps meet the needs of an individual ethnic or cultural group. While they focus on discrimination against their own group, most also talk about bias generally. These projects focus on teaching conflict resolution and mediation skills, believing that bias will be reduced the same way that other conflicts are settled.