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Project PEACE (Peaceful Endings through Attorneys, Children and Educators) is a conflict resolution education, peer mediation training and bullying prevention program implemented in Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Bar Association in partnership with the Pennsylvania Attorney General.s Office. LEAP-Kids is the primary mover for Project PEACE in Pennsylvania. This public-private partnership introduces dispute resolution techniques to school students at all levels. Though the program has changed over the years, adding curriculum connections and bullying prevention, the initial goal of to help children peacefully resolve their disputes remains the mission of Project PEACE. Brought to Pennsylvania by then Attorney General Mike Fisher in 1999 after the tragedy at Columbine High School, the program has continued to flourish under Pennsylvania Attorney Generals Jerry Pappert and Thomas Corbett. Eight presidents of the PBA have also endorsed the program. Over the past seven years, Project PEACE has brought peer mediation programming and conflict resolution education to nearly 100 Pennsylvania schools directly and another 120 indirectly.

Homework and survey materials

• Homework to be completed at the start of Project PEACE
• Elementary school student survey
• Elementary school teacher survey
• Middle school student survey
• Middle school teacher survey
• Survey result analysis worksheet

Resources

• Annotated agenda from March 2004 conference
• PA State Standards For Project PEACE [Added: 2005-03-07]

• Mean Boys and Girls: A Look at Bullying Prevention at North Penn High School
  • Agenda
  • Article

Archive

Update: [2005-10-13] The 2005-2006 Project PEACE season kicks off Oct. 31-Nov. 4 with a series of one-day trainings across Pennsylvania for educators looking either to start or to enhance peer mediation programs in their schools. Sponsored by Attorney General Tom Corbett and the Pennnsylvania Bar Association/Foundation, Project PEACE enters the new school year primed to reach schools all across the commonwealth. Click here for details and the registration form .

Update: [2004-01-11] Project PEACE sponsor Mike Fisher has been elevated from Pennsylvania Attorney General to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and is now sitting there as a federal judge. Find out more about the new Attorney General of Pennsylvania, co-sponsor of Project PEACE with the PBA, and his assistant: Jerry Pappert & Nils Hagen-Frederiksen.

Photos: [2003-08-30] Kim Minahan, a counselor from Windber Area Elementary was kind enough to send us some photos from a recent Project PEACE training session at her school. See them here, and here.