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Project Anti-Bully (PAB) is a non-profit 501(c)3 that is dedicated towards raising awareness of the prevalence of bullying and peer abuse in schools. PAB's headquaters are in the USA and international affiliates in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, El Salvador, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, Taiwan, The Philippines, and Uruguay.. Project Anti-Bully helps to create intervention type programs that specify on educating and informing individuals about precautionary methods for web and school safety. PAB was founded by students, for students with the hopes of encouraging them to communicate with other individuals about their bullying experiences. Project Anti-Bully has an extensive research team located throughout the United States and their data has been published in the Journal of Medicine (2009), Journal of School Violence (2009), and the International Journal of Adolescence Health (2011). Also PAB has presented their work at the American Psychological Association, The American Psychiatric Association, the British Psychological Association, and the Positive Psychology in Action conference. The PAB team's research has shown that 86% of students are being bullied/abused in schools daily across the US. Project Anti-Bully's mission is to raise awareness of the mental, emotional, and physical suffering that children/peers/others are experiencing within their environment in the hopes to control/stop the abuse.