The PeerLink Awards 2010 winners!

Monday 14th June 2010

Celebrating the outstanding contribution young people make to resolving conflict in schools and communities.

Leap Confronting Conflict’s fourth annual PeerLink Awards took place on Thursday 10th June at BT Centre to celebrate young people who make a difference to their schools and communities through conflict resolution.

BBC Journalist and Panorama presenter Jane Corbin presented the awards to ten really deserving winners from all across the UK.
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“I’m delighted to be able to support Leap’s innovative work with young people. As a journalist, I often report on violence and conflict that is taking place across the world. The young people here today have shown what can be done by tackling conflict in a constructive way before it escalates.” Jane Corbin
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Special video messages of support were also received from Olympic and World champion boxer Amir Khan, and Tim Campbell, former winner of BBC’s The Apprentice and founder of the Bright Ideas Trust.
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The standard was very high and it was great to here the young winners’ stories on the night. Here’s an interview with John Sesay, who picked up the individual award for resolving conflict in school. John mediates in Bacon’s College Southwark and was trained by Southwark Mediation Centre.

Congratulations to all who picked up awards on the night, here’s a full list of winners and their categories:

Individual award for resolving conflict in school
John Sesay
(Southwark Mediation and Bacon’s College)

Group Award for resolving conflict in school:
Lammas Peer Mediation Service
(Lammas School and Sports College)

Individual award for resolving conflict in the community
Tremayne Beckford
(Community Resolve in Bristol)

Group Award for resolving conflict in the community:
Broken Identity, Priesthorpe School’s Envision Team
(Envision in Leeds)

Peer Trainer of the year:
Jasmine Simeron
(Conflict and Change, Newham)

Peer Training Group of the year:
Waltham Forest Youth Independent Advisory Group

Award for conflict resolution in Scotland
Shaun Harper
(FARE, Glasgow)

Adult award for supporting young people
Tina Shirazi-Nejad
(Seven Hills Secondary School in Sheffield)

The Chirag Patel award for inspiring others
Kieran Williams
(Positive Futures, Liverpool)

Leap volunteer of the year
Sohail Karim