Making peace with colleagues
Effectiveness

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Promising

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Description

It is a mediation program to deal with conflicts inside and outside the school, as well as working towards drug-free school environments. The aim is to reduce violence and encourage the adoption of disciplinary sanctions to boost school performance.

The program offers a set of strategies including social skills training, conflict prevention and resolution, parental involvement and peer coaching. Trained students apply these interventions as mediators and must make up a team that is representative of the school in terms of gender, ethnicity, race and other social markers of difference.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation study showed that participants in the program had less aggressive behavior, expulsions and absences from school, disciplinary sanctions, and greater self-efficacy and better school performance, compared to students in the control group who did not receive the intervention [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Landry, R. (2003). Peers making peace: Evaluation report. Houston, TX: Research and Educational Services.

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