I think at one level the field … has come to a bit of a halt. It's not moving ahead. Or not moving … I don't know why that's happening … I think the field crested … and we're kind of sitting there and looking back and thinking, ‘Okay, we've got all that – how or where or what happens now?’… There are issues and questions out there that I think we're not asking or answering. And maybe we're not able to ask the right questions about it yet … My sense of it is there needs to be something to kind of give the field an impetus to move forward in some fashion or provide some new understanding and new insight into things.

the evaluation of the national Norwegian programme in Stavanger produced near-zero results (Roland, 1989). Since then there have been numerous attempts in many countries to demonstrate that intervention programmes to counter bullying can result in significant reductions in bullying behaviour. On the whole, evaluative reports (written by researchers largely responsible for the anti-bullying programmes) have indicated some consequent improvement in children's peer relations, but generally much less than the 50% reduction in Bergen … this includes some programmes based on the Bergen project. […]