A pro­gramme in­tend­ed to elim­i­nate school vi­o­lence was launched yes­ter­day at El Do­ra­do West Sec­ondary School, Tu­na­puna.

The Peer Me­di­a­tion Pro­gramme, spear­head­ed by the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s Stu­dent Sup­port Ser­vices Di­vi­sion, em­pow­ers stu­dents to play a piv­otal role in re­solv­ing con­flicts with­in their schools and com­mu­ni­ties.

Recog­nis­ing that young peo­ple com­mu­ni­cate dif­fer­ent­ly—of­ten us­ing lan­guage and ex­pres­sions that res­onate more ef­fec­tive­ly among peers than adult in­ter­ven­tions—the ini­tia­tive fo­cus­es on stu­dent-led me­di­a­tion.