Community mediation-an application in the field by munas kalden
1. Community Mediation:
-An Application In the field
Workshop on
Youth and Elders for Community Development
27-29 April 2010
Munas Kalden, UNDP, Ampara
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3. Community Mediation: 07 Stages
7. Closure and
follow -up 1. Initial contact
with the first
party
6. Building
Agreements 2. Initial
Community contact with the
Mediation: second party
Seven Stages
3. Preparing to
5. Exploring the work on the
issues dispute
4. Setting the scene-
hearing the issues
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4. Stage 01 :
Initial Contact with First Party
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5. Roles of the Mediators:
Home Visit Establishing contact
on the partyâs own
ground
HOME PLACE
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6. Mediators Skills in this stage:
Active Rapport
Listening building
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7. Why?
To establish a To get a full story
working relationship of the dispute and
with the party its history
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8. Initial complaint: Part of the Issue
Issues
directly
related to
the dispute
Full picture of
the issue
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9. Stage 02 :
First Contact with the Second
Party
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10. Mediators in this stage:
If party Agreeing face-
Confidentiality not to-face
agreed, st meeting
op the
process
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11. Stage03 :
Preparing to Work on the Dispute
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12. Mediators...
Face to face meeting
at a neutral place
If not....
Assessment for
next steps
Further
visits
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13. Mediators...
Shuttle
mediation
Referral
elsewhere
Or
closing
the case
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14. Refusing to Face-to-Face
Lack of
confidence in
other party
willingness to
Lack of confidence in change Lack of confidence in
their own ability to the process
negotiate
others Losing
position
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15. Stage04 :
Setting the Scene and
Hearing the Issues
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16. Roles of Mediators
Introduction
and well
come to the Issues of
Ground rule behaviour
parties
individually
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17. Roles of Parties
Out line the Out line the
issues from issues from
PartyA partyB
perspectives perspectives
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18. Identifying List of Issues
List
of
issu
e
Bringing the issues
from both statements
into an agenda
Seek clarification or specific
details, where necessary
Mediators summary of what
they have heard
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19. Stage 05 :
Exploring the Issues
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20. Opportunity to Widen the
Discussion
Allowing the parties to
explore feeling
aroused by the dispute
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21. Role of
the Mediator
Thinking about the
future
Getting out from
the
feeling, anger
and hurt aroused
by the dispute
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22. Mediators in this stage:
Neutrality Equitability
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23. Role of
the Mediator
Look at where their
Stated position interest lie
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27. Parties: from Position to Interest
Looking the problem from the
perspective of their
interest
than their previous
position
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