The
Miami-Dade County School Board has launched the first
phase of a plan to create "a culture of peace and
nonviolence in the district's schools."
As proposed by Board Member Robert B. lngram,
chair of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute of Nonviolence,
the program will be implemented under the umbrella of
Project PROUD.
PROUD, an acronym for Peacefully Resolving
Our Unsettled Differences, was begun during the 1992-93
school year. An evaluation of the program showed that
80 percent of conflicts among the district's students
were resolved after peer mediation. Another of its successful
activities is workshops for parents. Nearly all participating
parents state that they will use their newly acquired
techniques at home and will recommend the workshop for
other parents.
A key element of the first phase of the
new plan is to expand the scope of PROUD to include violence
intervention and prevention.
