A Revolution in Conflict Resolution!

Axis of Hope is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing in young adults an understanding of alternative, non-violent approaches to resolving complex conflicts locally, nationally and internationally.

Axis of Hope teaches students of diverse backgrounds about conflict analysis, management and prevention in ways that enliven the imagination, awaken moral reasoning, and impart lifelong social and civic skills. Through highly interactive workshops in public and independent middle and high schools, Axis of Hope introduces students to the study of international conflict and fosters the development of valuable negotiation skills.

Axis of Hope seeks to change the landscape of conflict and to create the prospect of future peace:

• By fostering effective global citizenship skills in students and teachers of diverse backgrounds.
• By promoting intensive, hands-on learning opportunities through “intellectual Outward Bound” geo-political role-play case studies.
• By teaching the world’s youth to develop trust, compassion and empathy for one another, and for people around the world.
• By nurturing empathy and broader perspectives that dramatically impact local behaviors and compassion.

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Axis of Hope 1-Day Teacher Workshops

Educating Global Citizens

This exciting one-day workshop is exclusively for middle and high school teachers who are interested in learning how to create the syllabus for and to offer the Axis of Hope (AoH) "Educating Global Citizens" course in their own schools, using our intellectual Outward Bound case-study approach to conflict management and prevention.

In this one day workshop we will explore corps AoH content and introduce important AoH teaching strategies. Teachers will also share success stories of success and best practices for teaching world history and current global events courses. We will continue building our knowledge and expertise around one AoH case-study: Whose Jerusalem?, focusing on the complex Arab-Israeli conflict. Teachers should attend this workshop if they are hoping to teach the new "Educating Global Citizens" elective beginning in the second semester of the current school year. Participants must register.

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Conflict Resolution Skills

Written on 25 January 2012, 00.00 by admin

Learning the art of diplomacy can be daunting, but putting those skills into practice can be even more so. Recently, fifty seventh grader students at Horner Junior High School in Fremont were up to the challenge when they had the unique opportunity to...

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Carl Hobert’s Class Grooms Global...

Written on 04 October 2011, 18.37 by admin

Carl Hobert’s students carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, and they appear to have a great time doing it.Lively apprentices of what Hobert, a visiting scholar and School of Education lecturer, calls preventive diplomacy, they are combining...

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Axis of Hope's Hobert engages...

Written on 04 October 2011, 18.35 by admin

On Tuesday, January 25 Axis of Hope founder Carl Hobert led nearly 70 Wilbraham & Monson Academy sophomores through his six-hour mediation workshop. Hobert used the fate of Jerusalem as the focus for the daylong exercise. The students are currently...

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Ed Triggs

"Your session at the recent NAIS National Conference was a tremendous and inspiring experience! I returned very much affected and convinced we needed to bring your workshop to The Langley School. As a result of our discussions, we would very much like to pursue this course. Our thoughts are that our current 7th Grade, a class of 45 students, would greatly benefit. We would like to link the experience and the ways we end this year with their fall trip to Costa Rica with Global Youth Leadership Institute. I have learned that Carl Hobert is on their board and appreciate the connection. Mr. Hobert was a master teacher and insightful facilitator in my NAIS session, and we would very much like to bring the work of Axis of Hope to The Langley School."

Ed Triggs
Director of Resource and Counseling

Patrick Bassett

"I was so impressed by your workshop I'll be stepping up my promotion of Axis of Hope by incorporating a screen shot of your website and running your overview clip on the program when I do the longer version of "Leading from the Middle" at workshops throughout the country and the world.

Best wishes for continued success. Cheers."

Patrick F. Bassett, President of the National Association of Independent Schools

 Pascale Delfosse

"Yesterday was refreshing for me. Growing up in Europe, after the second world war, I thought that such atrocities could never happen again. Then, the year Marine was born, the conflict in "Yugoslavia" started. We used to drive there for vacation. Realizing that these atrocities where happening and nobody could stop it really worried me. A few years later it was the genocide in Rwanda...and I became pessimistic. I am glad to see that there is, may be, a solution and that the boys were exposed to it."

Pascale Delfosse (Chair of Language Department)

Rhonan Mokriski

"I was very pleased with the entire day. I was surprised by the level of student engagement. I was also surprised by the way the students committed to their roles. The thing that impressed me the most about the day (the "magic," if you will) was the pivot from the familiar, competitive, debate-driven personas that frequently animate our boys to the collaborative process that drew up a compromise that was informed, sophisticated, and fair. It was a great day."

Rhonan Mokriski [Chair of History Department, member of CAIS Professional Development commission, Instructor at the CAIS NENTS (New England New teacher Symposium) and International Student Advisor]