Arkansas Peace Week offers great youth resources for schools and youth programs.

Peace Week began our school programs in 2017 when Pax Christi Little Rock (PCLR) worked with school counselor Mildred Calhoun to develop a peace curriculum for Little Rock’s Rockefeller Elementary. The following year we worked with Volunteers in Public Schools (VIPS) and Little Rock School District to expand these non-violence lesson plans and resources for elementary age students.  Today over 15,000 students participate in Arkansas Peace Week from all over the state: from Bella Vista to McGehee and Blytheville to Eldorado.

Here is a summary of programs resources available:

• Peace Week Pledge of Non Violence
• Peace Week Curriculum Ideas 2023
• Peace Week Lesson Plans-2023
• Peace Week Ideas for you School- 2023
• Peace Week- Student Activities-2023
• Volunteer with Little Rock School District during Peace Week
• Dr. King’s Pledge of Nonviolence Lesson Plans 
• Peace Week Lesson Plans from Quakers in Britain
• Peace Week Coloring and Work Sheets
• Arkansas Arts Council: The Arts in Education (AIE) program
• Peace Week Essay Contest
• Peace Week Art Contest  

Videos

• Online Film: Woodruff: A lesson of non-violence
• Reveille Isgrig from MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History reads “The General” by Jane Charters
• What Does Peace Feel Like reading by children
• THV11’s Craig O’Neill reads children’s books for Peace Week
  • Craig O’Neill reads The Peace Book!
  • Craig O’Neill reads Peace Week in Miss Fox’s Class