Resolving Conflict: Educating For Peace
About WMQPEP
The West Midlands Midlands Quaker Peace Education Project (WMQPEP) has over twenty years' experience in delivering conflict resolution workshops and training in Primary Schools.
We believe children can learn peaceful relationships and inclusive attitudes within a safe and supportive environment.
We can offer:
Workshops for school students
Training for school staff
Peer Mediation Training and assistance in setting up Peer Mediation Schemes
Our Peacemaker workshops in schools teach the children key life skills such as communication, emotional literacy, co-operation, problem solving, self-esteem and anger-management. Using Circle Time, the workshops look at how conflicts can escalate, and ways to resolve them peacefully.
Our Peer Mediation training prepares a group of children to be good peer mediators and helps the school set up a functioning peer mediation scheme.
Training and workshops are provided by expert freelance education workers. Our team includes former teachers, social workers, mediators, drama therapists and child psychologists.
Our Aims
- We help young people understand how conflict arises, and how it can be a positive force for change if it's resolved creatively and without violence
- We train adults and children in peacemaking skills
- We foster conflict resolution and peer mediation projects in schools
- We promote the idea that people and communities can live together peacefully in the West Midlands
- We provide resources and learning materials on peace, mediation and resolving conflict
Quakers across the region support WMQPEP as a practical way of living out their peace testimony.
How we can help
We run workshops with year groups 5 or 6 on peacemaker themes. We can train groups of students to be Peer Mediators. We train staff on the principles of creative conflict resolution. Options include:
- 10 week Peacemaker courses
- 2 day Peer Mediator training
- Inset days on conflict resolution skills
and we offer bursaries to help with the costs of the training. Contact us for more information on how we can help your school.
Latest News
We are recruiting a Peace Education Trainer to run our workshops on creative conflict resolution and peer mediation in schools, for children, young people and adults.
Support Us
We are looking for people interested in becoming freelance Education Workers with the project. Please see the Volunteer page for more details about what this involves. Finally, WMQPEP is always glad to hear from individuals, groups or grant-making trusts who would like to offer financial help to the Project.