Peers Making Peace (PMP)

Grades: K-12

Contact: Susan Armoni
Peacemakers Unlimited, Inc.
2095 N. Collins Blvd. Suite 101
Richardson, TX 75080
Phone: 972/671-9550, FAX: 972/671-9549

Peers Making Peace (PMP) is a peer-mediation program that uses a preventive approach for handling conflicts both in and out of school. The program's goal is to improve school environments by reducing violence, assaults, discipline referrals, and increasing academic performance. This is accomplished by training teams of students to act as peer mediators on their school campuses.

The evaluation of the Peers Making Peace program used a pre-post, quasi-experimental design with six experimental and six comparison schools that were regarded as similar based on demographics, socioeconomic levels, population, and incidence of violence and substance use. Results demonstrated that experimental schools experienced a drop of 73% in expulsions while comparison schools experienced an increase of 6.2% a drop of 90.2% in assaults while comparison schools experienced an increase of 33%, and a drop of 57.7% in discipline referrals while the comparison schools experienced an increase of 8.4%. Results were uniformly positive in the experimental schools.

US DOE Expert Panel, Promising Program