Organization: Swiss Peace Foundation, University of Basel
Registration deadline: 31 Jan 2017
Starting date: 24 Feb 2017
Ending date: 25 Feb 2017
Learn about non-violent conflict transformation and improve your negotiation and mediation skills. In this 2-day course, mediators share their experience with supporting peace processes.
Program Overview
Mediators bring conflict parties to the negotiating table and support them in finding agreements. In the last decade the range of actors in mediation has broadened beyond diplomats and UN experts and frequently professional mediators are brought in. Participants gain insights into the challenges that mediators face when facilitating dialogue and searching for peace agreements.
Your benefits
- Become familiar with the most important concepts, definitions and challenges relevant to negotiation and mediation;
- Understand what the specific added values of a mediator are for the resolution of conflicts;
- Practice some inter-personal negotiation techniques;
- Experience the dynamics of a mediation process;
- Get a feel of what it is like to be a mediator in the field.
Participants
The course is designed for practitioners and academics interested in bridging their own experiences with current conceptual insights and practical knowledge on peace mediation.
Faculty
Dr. David Lanz, Head, Mediation, swisspeace (lead)
Julian Hottinger, Senior Mediation Expert, Human Security Division, Directorate of Political Affairs, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Mathias Zeller, Program Officer, Mediation, swisspeace
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