Promoting Non-Violence in Early Adolescence
Subtitle: Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (Prevention in Practice Library)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780306463860
Subjects: Educational psychology; Public health & preventive medicine; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Sociology; Administration; Public Health; Violence in Society; Medical / Public Health; Conflict management; Interpersonal conflict in adol; Interpersonal conflict in adolescence; Nonviolence; Prevention; Study and teaching (Middle sch; Study and teaching (Middle school); United States
First sentence: Although it is the larger tragedies that make the news, smaller conflicts between students can build up in a school or a community and lead to bigger problems.
Description: "This volume describes the steps taken by Responding In Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP), a program developed to promote "nonviolence" among students in middle schools.".

"RIPP provides young people with new ways to respond to conflict. Using the acronym RAID, the students are taught four types of nonviolent options: Resolve, Avoid, Ignore, and Diffuse. By teaching that they have other choices in any conflict, the idea that "fighting" is a necessary response to an insult or a conflict is dispelled. RIPP also teaches the need for everyone to accept differences, to affirm those with whom they come in contact, and not to engage in "put downs" of others."--BOOK JACKET.