Our peer mediation programme has been operating in New Zealand since 1991 and has been delivered to nearly two thirds of schools nationwide.
The programme empowers students by teaching them skills and processes to resolve conflict peacefully. They learn how to use conflict scenarios as an opportunity to build positive relationships with others. Non-violent, constructive, co-operative, WIN/WIN solutions to a problem are negotiated.
Students are providing a service for other students as "peace-keepers". They are modelling skills and processes, which will last a lifetime and are readily transferable to the home, workplace, community etc.
It has been shown to have a positive impact not only on students, teachers and parents but also for the wider school community.
Budding, young film director, Rachael Bigelow, a 3rd year student at AUT studying a Bachelor of Communication, put together a short documentary on The Peace Foundation's Peer Mediation Programme - Cool Schools.This 10 minute informative film features a small team of eight Year 7 and 8 peer mediators
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Watch the students of Flanshaw Rd School in West Auckland perform a sasa with a peer mediation theme!
http://www.peace.net.nz/index.php?pageID=1&itemID=296
The Peace Foundation would like to acknowledge the staff and pupils of Flanshaw Road School, West Auckland, for their valuable contributio
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This year, Schools' Peace Week will take place 21 - 25 June. It is a national week designed especially to help schools educate students about peace issues. Now in its ninth year, it has received enthusiastic support from schools nationwide and is one of The Peace Foundation’s contributions to th
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This programme seeks to enable parents to use the mediation skills that the children learn at school so as to reinforce these skills in the home.
The programme provides alternative ways of dealing with conflict in the home and and promotes more effective communication in the family. It also encour
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The main thing that I've gained is with family problems at home. When my parents get into an argument I can now help them sort it out between them. (Young Pacific Island man)Being a young Pacific Island person I've grown up with a background where violence and abuse is the way to solve your problems
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