Mediators and mentors: partners in conflict resolution and peace education

Author： Lane Pamela Ybarra Monica Zajac Joe Dee Vierra Tekla

ISSN： 1740-0201

Source： Journal of Peace Education, Vol.2, Iss.2, 2005-09, pp. : 183-193

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Abstract

It is the view of these authors that children learn to be peacebuilders in the context of relationships where, if fortunate, they experience guided practice in interpersonal skill development around conflict. Mediator Mentors , the program described in this article, is a school‐university partnership in which Teacher‐Education Candidates, Peace and Conflict Studies interns and classroom teachers had as their overall objective improvement of the learning climate through peer mediation program implementation. Social‐emotional variables like empathy and perspective‐taking were considered measurable outcomes, Analysis of pre‐to‐post change scores revealed that mediators demonstrated significantly higher gains on measures of social‐cognitive development F (3,67)=19.26, p.