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.