Gamasutra has a story about a group of nine (nine!) universities working together to create a game to help children deal with bullying.

From the research team:

"If you’re a young person facing some sort of bullying on a regular basis the problem can seem too big, too overwhelming, to tackle. What we will be developing is a virtual world where the user can interface directly with a synthetic character who is also a bullying victim. That bullying scenario is played out on the screen then the user can interface with the synthetic character, discuss what has happened and make choices about how the character might like to react in future."

What exactly do they think a computer game is going to solve that most human history has failed to?

What searing advice will they offer that everyone from your dad to the Beaver's dad has completely failed to help with?

"Fight Dirty? He Has to sleep somewhere and sometime? Grinding glass into his food is a nearly undetectable method of assasination?"

Seriously.