APRIL 2019
MEDIATION WORKS! April at The Peace Foundation ! This month we have had 8 Cool Schools Trainings and 2 Leadership through Peer Mediation sessions with schools across both the North and South Island. We have also had three interns join us this month, Tania Safi, Gabrielle Metayer both from France and Farjana Rahman from Bangladesh, we are excited to welcome them to the team!
First Impressions: Mt Roskill’s Inspiring Students By Tania Safi, Intern at the Peace Foundation NZ
Mount Roskill Grammar School has a long history with Leadership Through Peer Mediation (LtPM) trainings; the school has been involved with the programme for 24 years now. In 2014, the Peace Foundation awarded them the "Excellence in Peace Education Leadership" award for their incredible commitment through the years. I was lucky enough to be given the chance to participate to an LtPM training there within my first week of working for the Peace Foundation, last March. Not only did the school seem to perfectly embody the values our organization promotes through the friendliness of the students and the positive messages everywhere around the school, but I thought seeing such amazing involvement from sixteen-years-olds was very inspiring.
Top Tips: How to keep the Peer Mediators motivated • Have a smaller team and a regular roster – all Peer Mediator's should be out on the playground once a week not to get bored and to keep training
• Let Peer Mediators apply for the job, have a contract/mediators agreement • Use Badges as motivation—if they do training and a term on duty they
And REMEMBER: When the Peer Mediator’s get made redundant this can be a sign of a peaceful school where students from all levels are doing their own problem solving.
#PEACEANDTECHNOLOGY
PEACE SYMPOSIUM 2019 • PEACE & TECHNOLOGY Wednesday 26th June 2019
The 2019 Secondary Schools Peace Symposium will celebrate its 15th anniversary. Held Wednesday, June the 26th at AUT City Campus, It will launch the discussions that will culminate during the Youth Peace week in August. This year the focus is Peace and Technology. It’s a day for the students to raise questions and debate the role of new technologies in our lives and raise awareness about its contribution or opposition to build peace. It will feature activities, guest speakers, workshops for all symposium participants and delicious food.
For more info or to register your school please contact Christina Barruel christina@peacefoundation.org.nz