Conflict pilot
Conflict pilot is the term used in a school context for a student with training in conflict reduction, violence prevention and in aspects of school-related mediation.
history
As early as the 1980s, a conflict pilot model was tested and installed at some schools in the special federal state of Berlin (West). Ortrud Hagedorn , who worked at the Berlin Institute for Teacher Education or at the State Image Office (today: LISUM ), was in charge.
Accordingly, conflict guides are students who have been trained as mediators. Workshops and seminars are held with the interested, recruited students. They are voluntarily trained for this task alongside school lessons . The preparation takes a few months and is carried out by teachers, school psychologists or other experienced mediators. The corresponding projects have different names such as Pax An, Anti-Stress Team, Conflict Control or Tut Was - depending on the age of the students.
Dispute settlement by students under the supervision of teachers
Dispute settlement procedures are based on three pillars:
- It is not the mediator but the parties who decide what to negotiate and how to resolve their conflict.
- Understanding does not necessarily mean agreeing. The aim is to find a consensus (so-called win-win situation ) instead of a compromise.
- Peers, i.e. people of a similar age with similar interests and spaces, are assigned a significant role in defining and maintaining one's own individual identity. The point is not only to see children and young people as causing problems, but also to include their problem-solving skills. In every peer group there are people who enjoy special attention and credibility from the other young people. The work and cooperation with these peers should make it possible to inform other children and young people and to give them insights more easily. This is particularly the case with arguing classmates.
Dispute settlement discussions by students go through the same five mediation phases as other mediations. A modification of the peer mediation is the "anti-stress team" of the Bremen association TOA, in which pupils act as mediators who themselves have been confronted with conflicts and have been noticed by discipline difficulties.
literature
- Ortrud Hagedorn : Mediation with conflict guides - the Berlin model. In: Focus: Prevention of violence in schools. Part 1, Berlin State Commission against Violence. (Berlin forum for violence prevention). Berlin 2000, pp. 12-17.
- Ortrud Hagedorn: Conflict pilots. Klett, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-12-196106-3 .
- Ottmar Hanke: Conflict pilot in 30 hours. Reinhardt, Munich / Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-497-01937-3 .
- Wolfgang Melzer among other things: violence prevention and school development. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2004, ISBN 3-7815-1322-X .
- Wilfried Schubarth: Violence and Mobbing in Schools. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-020529-1 .
- Jamie Walker: Learning Nonviolent Conflict Resolution - But How? In: Michael Spreiter (Ed.): Armistice in the classroom. Beltz, Weinheim 1993, ISBN 3-407-25145-9 .
- Weisser Ring (Ed.): Mediation - also at our school. Mainz 2006.
- F. Winter, S. Taubner, C. Krause: Placing young people. Initiation of a conflict resolution offer by young students at their school. Forum-Verlag Godesberg, Mönchengladbach 1997, ISBN 3-930982-21-8 .