"When it comes to conflict and mediation we should all be teachers and students at the same time."
The crosscultural training experience throughout Latin America during the past year has invited me to reconsider my training approach and habits. Time and again I have concluded that we “trainers” should make our “knowledge” and “expertise” permanently problematic. That is, we cannot “take-for-granted” that what we know is an answer to their questions, nor that what they know is superficial or irrelevant. Mediation training seminars can and should become a laboratory for the development of “appropriate technology” in conflict management. Such a technology has one basic foundation: It is accessible and applicable because it emerges as a local, natural resource to local problems…
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An article describing the emergence and transformative impact of a community mediation program in Nepal.
A manuscript written for the Inter-racial and Cross-cultural Conflict Resolution Project at Conrad Grebel College's Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.
An exploration of prescriptive and elicitive methods of training and conflict work across cultures that places emphasis on the resources emergent from the context and setting of a given conflict.