Resources: Peer Mediation
The resources below include information that may be useful in support of peer mediation programs. This collection is designed to assist educators interested in launching or improving upon existing peer mediation programs.
Standards of Practice
- Association for Conflict Resolution: Peer Mediation Standards – provides model standards including program development, management and evaluation, and training.
Articles and Research:
- International website with a wealth of ideas, presentations, videos and training curriculum: The Conflict Resolution Education Connection – Just click on one of the bottom locker doors. Then enter ‘peer mediation’ or ‘mediation’ as the “search” word.
- “Solutions Through Peer Mediation” by Leah Davies·
- “Peer mediation: What School Counselors Need to Know” University of Wisconsin thesis
- Recommended Standards for School-Based Peer Mediation Programs 2007
- Fairfax County Public Schools Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation Training 2010
- Therapists, Role Models, Spies: An Oakland school trains students to help mediate campus conflict
Planning:
- Action Planning for Program Coordinator
- Mediation in Schools – Listening, Resolving, Empowering with Stacy Smith & Barbara Grochal, produced by the Werner Institute
- School Mediation Associates
- Quick Guide to Implementing a Peer Mediation Program by Richard Cohen
- Newsletter Archive, wide variety of topics related to peer mediation
Training:
- Peer Mediators – A Complete School Curriculum Grades 6-8 developed by the Asian Pacific-American Dispute Resolution Center
- Resolving Conflict Through Mediation funded by Aetna Life and Casualty
- Resolving Conflict with a Peer Mediation program (Manual for 4-8 Grades - White paper from Maine)
- The Mediation Process script for training middle and high school students
- Role Plays
Program Management Forms:
Promotional Resources:
- Graphic Peer Mediation Images :
- Posters and images to download: On the Maryland Judiciary’s Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office’s website, see School Images for images appropriate for peer mediation programs
- The Perks of Peer Mediation
- See these links for a useful list of the benefits of peer mediation: