To further its mission and provide community outreach, PEF has taken on some innovative efforts:

• PEF collaborated with a Jamaican sister organization to create culturally appropriate curricula and training in that country. As a result, more than 2,000 teachers have been trained, and the program has been implemented in all 792 Jamaican public schools, grades one through six.
• PEF collaborated with mediation and education specialists to implement Conflict Resolution programs in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• For several years PEF sponsored an annual “Peacemakers’ Conference to Stop the Violence” that brought together hundreds of student mediators and community leaders to discuss ways to reduce youth violence.
• Students from all over North America have participated in PEF’s “Peace Essay Contest.” PEF has published selected student essays and artwork in several consecutive editions of Young Voices.
• For more than a decade, PEF honored outstanding peace educators and administrators from Miami-Dade County, Florida, at the “Peace Education Luncheon.”
• PEF sponsored a satellite teleconference, “Conflict Resolution 2000,” which involved over 300 schools sites throughout the United States and Canada.