A Health-Promoting School strives not only to improve health education, but also to improve health services, make changes in the school environment and school policies and practises, and mobilise community action. Violence prevention efforts can be undertaken in each of these areas, tapping into the full organisational potential of the school. As the participants of the 1996 International Forum on Education for Non-violence agreed, "The principals and practices of peace and non-violence should be integrated into every aspect of the educational institution.(8)