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This chapter analyses another application of the Acting against Bullying program, this time in the context of its impact on newly-arrived adolescent refugees being re-settled in Australia. The chapter reveals how the use of formal teaching about bullying, combined with drama, Forum Theatre and peer teaching, was just as effective in empowering these participants as the adolescents in all the earlier projects. The chapter presents the major outcomes of the research, including the demonstrated ability of almost all the participants to not only identify the significant conceptual information they had learned about the nature of bullying, but also to apply this understanding in the use of key techniques to manage bullying effectively. The major constraints that were encountered in developing the conflict and bullying management skills of newly- arrived refugees from Africa and Asia are reviewed, and the innovations and variations that were implemented as part of meeting this challenge are described.
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Burton, B., Lepp, M., Morrison, M., O’Toole, J. (2015). Conflict and Bullying Management for Adolescent Refugees. In: Acting to Manage Conflict and Bullying Through Evidence-Based Strategies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17882-0_11
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