‘Celebrating the Peacemakers of the Future/Dathlu Heddychwyr y Dyfodol’: Jane Harries reports

‘I love being a peer mediator.’

by Jane Harries 14th November 2025

‘I love being a peer mediator,’ said one of the participants at this conference, held in the Pierhead building, Cardiff Bay, on 15 October. She beamed across the table and showed me the peer mediation lanyard that she wears when on duty at her school. Along with almost 100 other pupils from across South Wales, it was the first time she would be meeting other children trained as mediators, and she was excited. The conference was the culmination of a joint project between Quakers in Britain and the Welsh Centre for International Affairs (WCIA), started in January 2024.