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The Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice: Prevention Strategies that Work (Peer Mediation)

The Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation Project is a program designed to help students develop interpersonal skills important for the development of prosocial behaviors and constructive conflict management.

Safe and Responsive Schools: Peer Mediation Fact Sheet

In the "Publications" section of the Safe and Responsive Schools Web site, a series of two page fact sheets reviewing the literature on promising interventions for preventing school violence are available. Each fact sheet presents an overview of the program, data on the implementation and effectiveness of the program, and information on components that appear to be critical for its success.

Youth in Action: Want to Resolve a Dispute? Try Mediation, March 2000

This Bulletin was produced by the National Crime Prevention Council as part of the National Citizens' Crime Prevention Campaign under a cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The National Crime Prevention Council is a nonprofit organization that conducts demonstration and youth-based programs, produces publications and training materials on a variety of subjects, and manages the day-to-day activities of the National Citizens' Crime Prevention Campaign.

Conflict Resolution Education A Guide to Implementing Programs in Schools, Youth-Serving Organizations, and Community and Juvenile Justice Settings.

We urge you to help make our schools and our communities safer places. We invite you to use this Guide as a means of working with your schools, community organizations, and other youth-serving and juvenile justice settings to give our youth the skills, techniques, and tools they need to learn and to resolve disputes in a safe and nonviolent environment. Janet Reno, Attorney General and Richard W. Riley, Secretary of Education. This guide is also available in .pdf format.

Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) Home Page

ESR is a national leader in supporting schools, families, and children. We are recognized for our prominent role in social and emotional learning, character education, conflict resolution, violence prevention, and intergroup relations. ESR offers comprehensive programs, resources, and training for adults who teach children at every developmental level, preschool through high school.