• Statistics about Conflict Resolution
• Restorative Justice Book List
• Other Restorative Justice Websites

• Reduces Physical Violence: According to the New Mexico Center for Dispute Resolution between 83-86% of respondents in elementary, middle, and high schools reported that they had seen a lot less or somewhat less violence since their mediation program was implemented in New York, a study reported a 50% decline in student assaults.
• Less Disruptive Behavior: Principals report that conflicts referred to them decreased by 80% since the introduction of mediation.
• Youth Empowered to solve their own problems: According to a University of Minnesota Study, 85% of students adopted negotiation as their primary approach to conflict.
• Victim Offender Satisfaction: The Center for Restorative Justice and Mediation found the following results form this alternative model: 93% of crime victims and 94% of juvenile offenders were satisfied with restorative justice for their case; 95% of victims and 89% of juvenile offenders felt that the negotiated restitution agreement was fair to them; and 90% of victims felt that the offender was held accountable in the restorative process.

• Elements of Mediation
  by Sharon Leviton and James Greenstone
  
  
• Peacemaking Cirlces: From Crime to Community
  by Kay Pranis, Barry Stuart, Mark Wedge
  
  
• When Talk Works: Profiles of Mediators
  by Deborah M. Kalb and Associates
  
  
• Changing Lenses
  by Howard Zehr
  
  
• The Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding: A Vision and Framework for Peace with Justice
  by Lisa Schirch
  
  
• Images of Color, Images of Crime-Second Edition
  by Coramae Richey Mann and Marjorie S. Zatz
  
  
• In Their Own Words: Criminals on Crime-An Anthology Third Edition
  by Paul Cromwell
  
  
• The Functions of Social Conflict
  by Lewis Coser
  
  
• Conflict Among Humans
  by Robert Nye
  
  
• Continuities in the Study of Social Conflict
  by Lewis A. Coser
  
  
• Divorce Mediation-Theory and Practice
  by Jay Folberg and Ann Milne
  
  
• Business Arbitration--What you Need to Know
  by Robert Coulson
  
  
• Community Mediation-A Handbook for Practioners and Researchers
  Edited by Karen Grover Duffy, James Grosch, and Paul Olczak
  
  
• Artful Mediation-Constructive Conflict at Work
  by Elaine Yarbrough, Ph.D. and William Wilmot, Ph.D.
  
  
• Mediation: The Book-A Step by Step Guide for Dispute Resolvers
  by Sam Leonard
  
  
• Negotiating at an Uneven Table: A Practical Approach to Working with Difference and Diversity
  by Phyllis Beck Kritek
  
  
• The Magic of Conflict
  by Thomas F. Crum
  
  
• The Promise of Mediation: Responding to Conflict Through Empowerment and Recognition
  by Robert A Baruch Bush and Joseph P. Folger
  
  
• Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way From Confrontation to Cooperation
  by William Ury
  
  
• You Just Don't Understand-Women and Men in Conversation
  by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.
  
  
• Surviving the Fire: Mother Courage and World War II
  by Lilo Klung
  
  
• The Ethan Chronicles: Requiem for A LIfe Stolen
  by Marsha A Willis
  
  
• Deadly Consequences: How Violence is Destroying Our Teenage Population and a Plan to Begin Solving the Problem by Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D.
  
  
• Solving Costly Organizational Conflicts
  by Robert R. Blake and Jane Srygley Mouton
  
  
• Everyday Encounters: An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
  by Julia Wood
  
  
• Resolving International Conflicts: The Theory and Practice of Mediation
  Edited by Jacob Bercovitch

Colorado

• The Center for Justice, Peace, and the Environment
• Boulder County Restorative Justice Summit

National/ International

• Victim Offender Mediation Association
• Prison Fellowship International
• Mennonite Restorative Justice Resources
• United Methodist Church Mission Studies of Restorative Justice
• The Center for Restorative Justice at Simon Fraser University
• Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking at the University of Minnesota
• International Institute for Restorative Practices
• Restorative Justice Center: Justice and Restorative Justice in South Africa
• Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University