But it is also young people who are the key to delivering conflict resolution to their peers, believes Jennifer Rogers, chief executive of Leap Confronting Conflict. The charity is now launching a manual on gangs and territorialism at the end of this month, at the same time as the official launch of its national peer mediation network PeerLink, aimed at developing young conflict mediators across the nation, funded with 1.3m from the Big Lottery Fund (YPN, 4-10 January, p4).
"We try to get young people to make better choices and give them skills to resolve conflicts because, once weapons are drawn, young people get scared and you get stabbings," says Rogers.
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