Atrium Society’s Awards & Acclaims

Internationally acclaimed, award winning books and programs to help young people understand and resolve conflict peacefully

  • Ten time Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Awards for Excellence in Independent Publishing.
  • Awarded the Robert Burns Medal for Literature by Austria’s Albert Schweitzer Society, for “outstanding merits in the field of peace-promotion”.
  • Acclaimed at the Soviet Peace Fund Conference in Moscow and published in Russia by Moscow’s Library of Foreign Literature and Magistr Publications.
  • Selected by the International Association of Educators for World Peace for their Central American peace education project in Panama and El Salvador.
  • Selected by the National PTA as a recommended resource for parents.
  • Endorsed by Scouting Magazine and Sports Illustrated for Kids.
  • Were chosen as a focus, and highly praised at the International Congress for Teachers for Peace, Paris, France.
  • Invited to the Soviet Union in 1989 by Mrs. Gorbachev and the Soviet Peace fund.
  • The Youth Peace literacy books are archived in perpetuity at No Gun Ri International Peace Foundation, South Korea.
  • Archived at the Samara State Academy of Culture and Arts, Samara Russia.
  • Are We Born Hardwired for War? Is War in our DNA? presented at International Conference of Museums of Peace in South Korea sponsored by the No Gun Ri International Peace Foundation.
  • Why Is Everybody Always Picking On Me? cited by the Omega New Age Directory as one of the Ten Best Books, for its “atmosphere of universal benevolence and practical application”.
  • Approved by the New York City Board of Education.
  • Selected by the American Booksellers Association for its resource listing of “Children’s Books About Peace”.
  • Presented the National Conference on Peacemaking & Conflict Resolution.
  • Archived in perpetuity at the University of Connecticut’s Northeast Children’s Literature Collection, Swarthmore College Peace Collection and the University of Southern Mississippi’s de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection and at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima Japan.
  • Archived in perpetuity at No Gun Ri International Peace Foundation, South Korea and Samara State Academy of Culture and Arts, Samara Russia.
  • On permanent display at the International Museum of Peace and Solidarity in Samarkind, Uzbekistan, the Commonwealth of Independent States.
  • The Center for Applied Psychology, Inc. cites Dr. Terrence Webster-Doyle as an “eloquent leader of the movement to combine principles of education, psychology, and the martial arts to teach young people to resolve conflict peacefully.”
  • Fighting the Invisible Enemy and Tug of War recommended by the Elementary School Library Collection as “fine contributions to materials for children”; both books also chosen by the British Commonwealth Collection – A Selection of Books and Journals on Nonviolence and Social Change.
  • Fighting the Invisible Enemy – Understanding the Effects of Conditioning was published in Russian by Detskaya Maya, the leading Russian teacher’s magazine and serialized to all the teachers throughout the country in 1988.

Testimonials

Significant contribution to peace

Every publication from the pen of this author should make a significant contribution to peace within and without. Highly recommended!
New Age Publishers and Retailers Alliance Trade Journal

Ground breaking and brilliant!

Dr. Webster-Doyle’s work on peace promotion and solving conflict nonviolently, especially for young audiences, is ground breaking and brilliant!
Dr. Michael D. Knox
Chair, US Peace Memorial Foundation

Excellent and highly relevant

These topics are excellent and highly relevant. If each of the major countries of the world were to have ten Drs. Webster-Doyle, world peace is guaranteed to be achieved over a period of just one generation.
Dr. Charles Mercieca
Executive Vice President, International Association of Educators for World Peace, NGO, United Nations (ECOSOC), UNICEF & UNESCO

Practical skills for peace

Helps young people deal with conflict and violence by describing practical skills for peace. 
Holistic Education Review
Presented at the 1995 UNESCO-sponsored International Educators for Peace Congress

I don’t think I’ve seen another book like it!

The book, Why is Everybody Always Picking on Us? explores the roots of prejudice. I don’t think I’ve seen another book like it. How wonderful if this book could be used in one’s social studies classroom!

I have learned where prejudice begins, how it is created, how it is perpetuated, and how it can be resolved. This book looks at stereotypes, bigotry, discrimination, scapegoating, racism, and more. It is a wonderfully comprehensive manual for young people and adults alike on understanding our conditioning and the root of prejudice.
American Pride Through Education

Helps children deal with their feelings and the violence-provoking parts of their environment

Webster-Doyle’s insight is that by recognizing, understanding, and accepting our violent tendencies, we can avoid acting them out. These new books are good for teachers and parents of school children who need appropriate language and activities to help children deal with their feelings and the violence-provoking parts of their environment. To this reviewer, they are realistic and practical.
Young Children
Magazine of the National Association for the Education of Young Children

Eloquent leader of the movement

[Dr. Webster- Doyle is an] eloquent leader of the movement to combine principles of education, psychology, and the martial arts to teach young people to resolve conflict peacefully.
Dr. Lawrence Shapiro
Center for Applied Psychology

Personality of Culture of Peace in 2020

For the many years of our collaboration you gave us useful knowledge and many lessons of peace-experience for hundreds of Samara students. Samara Society for Cultural Studies had declared you as The Personality of Culture of Peace in 2020.
Vladimir I. Ionesov Professor
Founder and Chairperson, Samara Society for Cultural Studies, Samara, Russia

These people are truly extraordinary

These people are truly extraordinary and their thoughts should be considered as we design the new exhibits. Their message is in part that all creatures have a “flight or fight” instinct that is set in place instantly by frightening experiences.

This is in turn perpetuated by exposure, actual or imagined, to any creature that even resembles the object of their fear. The actions of others, and propaganda, strengthen these responses. I talked with these people about their successes in Liberia rehabilitating child “soldiers.
Harold Foley
Museum Director, New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum

Helps young people deal with conflict

Helps young people deal with conflict and violence by describing practical skills for Peace.
Holistic Education Review

Children all over the US should read

It would be wonderful if children all over the US would read Facing the Double-Edged Sword. Adults too.
George Leonard
Contributing Editor, Esquire

Many thanks for this intelligent peace-educating book

Hello Dr. Webster-Doyle, I am a school principal, a parent and martial artist. I just wanted to thank you for this incredible book [Operation Warhawks] about how young people become conditioned to be warriors.
This is the most unusual book that I have ever bought for my children! And perhaps the most important! I want to tell people that if you are concerned about war and what you can do to help your children understand what creates it then get this book. You could save their lives. Again many thanks for this intelligent peace-educating book.
Dr. Phillip Ramos

Tremendous step for such a violent region

We have just completed training our Israeli and Palestinian Karate Instructors in your Character for Kids program and are using your book Fighting the Invisible Enemy to teach our young brown and black belts about understanding the effects of conditioning.
Some of our instructors actually risk their lives to teach this peace enhancing material, as the bullies in our region are real terrorists …the ones you only read about. There is no doubt that this is tremendous step for such a violent region where hatred, violence and distrust is the norm.
Sensei Danny Hakim
Founder, Chief Instructor of Budo for Peace, Israel

Beyond the practice of karate

His writings go beyond the practice of karate into everyday life, inviting us to inspect the psychological roots of conflict. His application of the art of karate to the education of young people is especially laudable.
beyond the practice of karate

Wonderful work of art

One Encounter One Chance is a wonderful work of art (personally I think you should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize).
Michael McGinty
Shotokan Karate Ballybofey, County Donegal, Ireland

Enhance a child’s ability to understand the world

The book excels at impelling children to understand how conflict works within themselves. Tug of War offers engaging exercises that enhance a child’s ability to understand the world. These exercises inspire self-observation, and the drawings of award-winning illustrator Rod Cameron enliven the book.
Newsletter of Educators for Social Responsibility

Healthier view of karate for children

Thank you for Eye of the Hurricane. We are unaware of any other resources which address the concept of using the martial arts for peaceful purposes… We are pleased that at last someone has presented a healthier view of karate for children, and for their concerned parents.
Hampton Educational Center
Grand Rapids, MN

These books are an asset

These books are an asset to Martial Arts instructors, students and parents of all styles, ages and rank levels. Don’t just place them on your shelf! Read them again and again.
Marilyn Fierro
Owner and Chief Instructor Smithtown Karate Academy, Smithtown, New York

Martial arts as a peaceful, nonviolent ‘way of life’

The books of Dr. Webster-Doyle are the first attempt I have seen to explain to young people and adults the concept of martial arts as a peaceful, nonviolent ‘way of life’ and to give students the tools to accomplish this goal.
Linda Lee Cadwell

These materials are very helpful

The materials were very helpful to the facilitators who conducted the workshop on bullying strategies.
New Jersey State Bar Foundation

Helped me ignore the bullies

Your book (Why Is Everybody Always Picking On Me?) has really helped me ignore the bullies; and in a way stop bullying others.
4th grader

Couldn’t stop reading it!

I realize Why Is Everybody Always Picking On Me? urgency for every child and adult. My daughter couldn’t stop reading it!
Marina Dubrovskaya
Assistant Director, Dept. of Sociology, Lenin Library, Moscow, Russia

High potential in schools

We use his books and thoroughly endorse the usefulness of his methods which have high potential in schools.
Stewart W. Twemlow
M.D. Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, Menninger Clinic, Martial Arts School owner