Talking About Terrorism: Promoting Peace

Information, advice and support for teachers

National Union of Teachers website
Provides advice for teachers on dealing with increased tension between pupils from different religious and ethnic groups in the aftermath of the London bombings

Teacher Support Network
Provides advice and support for teachers on responding to the London bombings including an on-line video

Teaching controversial issues
Links to guidance, ideas and methods on teaching about controversial issues

Inservice Training and Educational Development
Information on race equality and cultural diversty issues for schools. Includes links to relevant research on Islamophobia

National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers
Advice on Islamophobia for schools and colleges

Open Democracy - Democarcy in global politics
Contains discussions and debates about the London bombings

Spiked Politics
Contains articles and discussion about terrorism and the London bombings

Organisation sites offering Muslim perspectives

The Muslim Council of Britain
Information, newsletters and statistical data abut the Muslim population in the UK

Forum against Islamophobia and Racism
Information about projects on positive images, media coverage, equality monitoring, policy research and monitoring. Includes fact sheets, resources, and links to other websites

Islamic Human Rights Foundation
Links to useful articles and reports focusing on human rights issues and information about current campaigns and news

Islam Online
Information, news, photos, discussions and analyses from an Islamic perspective on a range of current issues

Resources for teaching and learning

British Red Cross Assembly kit
Provides material for supporting school assemblies, informal education and Citizenship education/PSHE lessons with young people to address practical and emotional issues around the London bombings

Teaching for Change
US educational site containing information and resources for teaching about terrorism, war and global justice

Global Dimension website
DFID site consists of a searchable database of resources for teaching and learning about global citizenship by key stage, subject and themes. Also includes UK curricula guidance and links to useful websites

Rethinking Schools website
US educational materials on teaching about the war in Iraq. Includes maps, statistics, facts about Islam, definitions and discussions of terrorism

Teachable moments
Teaching ideas, resources and articles on contemporary global issues and concerns published on the US National Council for Social Studies website

Support for children and young people

ChildLine
Children can ring on 0800 1111

Terrorism and children
Advice for helping childern cope with terrorist attacks produced by a US specialist in child development at Perdue University

Last updated by Patrick Samphire on 25th November 2005