Building Peace: Diplomacy, Institutions, and Conflict Resolution

Understand how personal emotions, family, friends, and everyday choices shape interpersonal relationships and well-being.

Examine how learning, biology, habits, and environmental factors interact to shape individual thought and action.

Explore the foundational elements of personal identity, including how family heritage, culture, religion, age, and social background shape who we are.

Examine the impacts of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination while learning how to foster inclusive communities and celebrate diverse cultural identities.

Explore how cultures around the world share universal human experiences while meeting essential needs for food, shelter, learning, and family life.

Analyze how diverse communities adapt to their environments, use traditional knowledge and technology, and solve complex community challenges.

Explore why people form communities and examine the cultural, social, and resource-based factors that drive cooperation and conflict among groups.

Examine how treaties, trade, institutions, and peaceful strategies help communities resolve disagreements and foster global cooperation.

Explore how citizens, organizations, and governments collaborate at school, local, tribal, state, and global levels to address community challenges.

Research community issues, advocate with elected officials, and carry out collaborative service-learning projects from planning through final presentation.

Explore how cultural values and traditions develop, how perspectives shape everyday experiences, and how different cultures interpret the natural world.

Develop strategies to overcome cultural bias, understand the role of institutions, and examine how local community actions connect to global systems.

Examine how technologies are designed, classified, and used for social purposes, and evaluate their intended and unintended consequences on societies.