Peer Mediation

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
  • Role Plays - Cyber-communication and Boyfriend-Girlfriend Issues
  • Role Plays - internet posting

Program Management Forms:

• Agreement to Mediate
• Mediation Agreement Form
• Mediation Request-Referral Form
• Mediation Self-evaluation Form
• Log for Program Management
• End of Year Mediation Certificate
• School Conflict Surveys
  • Student Conflict Survey
  • Teacher Conflict Survey
  • Parent Conflict Survey

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:
  • From Students Resolving Conflict by Richard Cohen

Videos:

• Peer Mediation in the classroom from CEP 841 Master's course at MSU (For staff or parents)
• In the Mix: Peer Mediation – A Process of Respect (Excerpt)
• Oakland Public School Peer Mediation – high school