Peer Mediation We offer a comprehensive dispute resolution process to address conflicts arising from school atmosphere, neighborhood climate and personal interactions. This peer mediation program will help your school address the negative consequences of persistent conflict. Peer mediation offers an integrated, systemic approach that empowers individuals to deal with conflict and its related stress in constructive, nonviolent ways. To implement a program at your school, we train 16-20 students and 5 faculty/staff members in your community in the theory and practice of peer mediation. We then provide on-going consultation services for the successful limplementation of the peer mediation program. Peer mediation training is a 24-hour course. It can take place over a period of weeks at your site, or in a concentrated retreat at Fellowship Farm. In a study of 45 Philadelphia schools, researchers report that students involved in conflicts who chose to go to mediation resolved their disputes in 90% of the cases. In the same study, young people reported that that mediation provided a legitimate vehicle for resolving conflicts while allowing them to "save face."

Last Update: Feb 15, 2004