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Resolution skills to the children of new orleans so they can avoid violence and stay alive. i love new orleans for its sense of community, but there is an undercurrent of hopelessness. >> who can tell me what their sign says? everything we do here is to build positive social relationships. our motto is reconciliation, never retaliation. >> i was on the verge of getting ready to seriously hurt somebody, but miss lisa stopped us. she definitely taught me to be in control of myself. >> one of the things that makes us unique is our peer mentoring empowering our young men and women to be the messen...

Resolution skills to the children of new orleans, so they can avoid violence and stay alive. it's a sense of community, but there's an undercurrent of hopelessness. >> who can tell me what the sign says. >> peace maker. >> everything we do here is to build positive social relationships. our motto is reconciliation, never retaliation. >> i was on the verge of getting ready to seriously hurt somebody, but miss lisa stopped us. she definitely taught me to be in control moof myself. >> reporter: what's unique is our peer mentoring, empowering our young men and women to be the messenger. >> the way...

>> that's why we decided not to make it underperforming african-americans but over the african-americans to do some peer mentoring and do some role modelling and some encouragement. >> that's racist. >> the principal apologized for organizing the trip but that's not sitting well with everyone. >> i think that there should be outrage on it any time you divide children based on race, that's a racist thing to do. >> as far as these kids feeling discriminated against, that sort of starts at home. we are our children's first teachers. >> an investigation under way now to see if the principal violat...