How about we try peer mediation?

Schools have become places of violence of all kinds (physical, verbal, psychological, etc.). Far from involving only the pupils among themselves, they also affect adults, whether teachers or more generally staff of children who tend to reproduce in school situations of violence experienced in the family environment.

Among the ways to be explored to eradicate this phenomenon, mediation, advocated by an NGO in Portgutel, Médiation pour Tous (MEDIT), is not without interest. It is an alternative form of conflict resolution. In this case, the parties seek the assistance of a third party (the mediator) to reach an amicable settlement of the dispute. In particular, mediation resolves the conflict by preserving good relations between the parties to the dispute, thus ensuring coexistence, and participates in the culture of peace.

The association Médiation pour Tous (MEDIT), created in 2020 by Régine d'Almeida Mensah, lawyer of the Tribunal and mediator of OHADA, Committed to training peer mediators in educational institutions so that this discipline can help combat violence in schools.

For example, with the Charles Lwanga School as a pilot centre, an experiment was carried out over six months, starting in November 2023, in which students from first and third grade classes were introduced to mediation techniques.

At the end of the experiment, four students from the 3rd grade class (Lyn Amdath Kambissi Gassambe, Dominique Nathan Mavoungou, Amelina Grace Mengue Obame and Gift Bornaves) and three from the 1st grade class (Christ Darren Moudouma Ibouane, Jean Marc Ogandaga Nkala and Mariame Mpanguesika Takech) han sido considered dignos by our respective colegas de ser los mediadores de su establecimiento. So, at the end of a series of capacity training sessions on mediation as an instrument to combat violence and vector of peace culture in the schools, born the first club of parents for mediadores in Port-Gentil in the Charles Lwanga school. Alumnos experience the difficulty of resolving conflicts between them in a non-violent way when they are worse than the odds.

Senora D'Almeida, founding president of the NGO MEDIT, insisted that the media techniques taught to alumni should not resolve conflicts between alumni but also serve to pacify the environment and subsequently work. These techniques support the beneficiaries during their entire life and allow them to promote a culture of peace at any time and place.

From the beginning of the school curriculum, the experience will continue with students of other classes or in other centers of the economic capital. Hasta that she goes to another school.

IR MÁS ALLÁ The Uniform Media Law (AUM) was adopted on November 23, 2017 and entered into force on March 15, 2018. It is the legal text standard approved by the Organization for the Armonization of the Mercantile Industry in Africa (OHADA ), an intergovernmental organization of legal integration. The AUM complies with the legislative decision that exists in the majority of the joint states of OHADA through mediation, a friendly way of resolving conflicts.

The mediation presents itself as a form of justice that is flexible, confidential, more rapid and less expensive than justice