But this time Nick, 18, settled matters another way. He said: "I'm not going to bother attacking you because it's not worth my time. Instead I'm going to ask you a question." He then quizzed his tormentor about why he had been spreading lies and the two of them talked through the source of conflict.
"We are not friends and never will be but we managed to sort out our differences there and then," he says. "Now if I pass him on the street it isn't a problem."
Good to talk
Nick, a gap-year student from London, attributes his more peaceful attitude to his involvement with Leap Confronting Conflict, a national charity established in 1997 to promote ways of getting young people to sort out their problems with other young people.
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