Does Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation Programs Make a Difference for Elementary and Middle School Children?
Conflict resolution education programs provide students with a basic understanding of the nature of conflict, the dynamics of power and influence that operate in conflict, and the role of culture in how we see and respond to conflict. The programs are estimated to be in place in fifteen thousand to twenty thousand of our nation’s eighty-five thousand public schools. Several states, including Ohio, Oregon, New Mexico, and Indiana, have made significant progress on statewide implementation of conflict resolution education (Batton, 2002; Ford, 2002; Tschannen-Moran, 2001). Discusses the increased use of Peer Mediation programs to solve interpersonal conflicts in school settings in the past years. Provides three distinctive models of PM programs and discusses the stages generally necessary for developing a PM program. Describes two exemplary PM programs: an elementary school model and a middle school model. Describes school peer mediation as a mode of student conflict management to be used
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