This Guide for Peer Mediators, crafted for people who play an important role in dealing with school-based conflicts, serves as a handy reference for youth peer mediators. It elaborates on the peer mediation process and the peer mediators' role in addressing conflicts. It promotes a culture of non-violence, prevents violent escalation of school-based conflicts, and nurtures schools as zones of peace. It serves as a fitting confirmation and enlightenment to all educators, peace advocates, and other internal and external stakeholders that we can achieve our continuing pursuit of peace if we invest and start combining all of our efforts and initiatives for the school children.

This guidebook highlights the concept of peer mediation, which emphasizes that mediation is a form of third-party-assisted dispute resolution, wherein a mediator helps the parties involved facilitate what they cannot do alone. It is a facilitative and non-adversarial process which allows the mediator to maintain neutrality, impartiality, and balance the power between disputants.

(From the forward, Page 7)