"Peace at school: Mediating together through the Internet state"

DO YOU WANT TO TAKE PART IN THE EUROPEAN PROJECT ABOUT SCHOOL PEER MEDIATION?
Let your school became a European peaceful school: Join us!

DO YOU WANT TO BE A PROTAGONIST OF A VIRTUAL ROLE-PLAY?
If you are a secondary school' student, you can be it! Come on, play with us!

Conflicts in school include problems like social exclusion, school bullying and violence, racism, absenteeism, vandalism, problems with multiracial and gender integration. The present project utilizes the School Peer Mediation approach to deal with school conflicts in a consensual way.

aVataR@School is a project that explores new ways of conflict resolution based on the use of virtual role plays by means of peer mediation techniques. A Second Life-like environment (www.opensimulator.org) allows virtual interactions between its players.

The aVataR@School project's main target groups are pupils, teachers and mediators that are involved in a variety of conflict situations in secondary schools, with an emphasis on pupils or teachers involved in or trained as mediators within their schools.

The role-plays are supervised by an external moderator and aim at helping the players explore possible ways of resolving the given conflict scenario, either alone or by involving a mediator. Following each role-play the experiences are discussed in an evaluation session. All role-plays sessions are video recorded and these materials are used to create movies (machinima) useful both in the evaluetion phase and as players’ introductory for following role plays.

The aVataR@School project is an EU-funded project with partners from Italy, Germany, Romania, Spain und the UK.