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Nancy Ferrell talks about re-establishing channels of communication during family mediation. |
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Nancy Ferrell talks about cost-benefit analysis and visioning as mediation techniques. |
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Suzanne Ghais talks about ways to help parties to discuss the past without getting caught up cycles of blame. |
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Suzanne Ghais recommends that mediators explore the past in order to better understand parties' perspectives. |
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Silke Hansen talks about a benign form of manipulation mediators can use to help parties move toward compromise. |
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Wallace Warfield describes how one identifies the real leaders in a group. |
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Peter Woodrow describes a Sri Lankan approach to mediation. |
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Suzanne Ghais suggests that explaining the mediation strategies she is using can help parties to communicate more effectively. |
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Nancy Ferrell discusses mediators' role in empowering minority or low-power parties. |
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Jane Docherty notes the importance of differentiating between impasses based on worldview differences, and others based on bad faith or misunderstandings. |
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Helen Chauncey explains how fear can interfere with coexistence efforts. |
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Angela Khaminwa and Sarah Peterson explain the interrelationship between peacebuilding and coexistence work. |
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Angela Khaminwa and Sarah Peterson discuss ways to "scale up" coexistence work to the national level to address issues of structural violence. |
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Former Community Relations Service Mediator Edward Howden describes how mediators sometimes need to be assertive to hold the process together. |
Case Examples
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Sarah Peterson describes a negotiation process in South Africa involving land reform that has, with effort, led to longer-term coexistence. |
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Coexistence is a situation in which people embrace diverse identities constructively. Helen Chauncey explains this notion in the context of Cyprus. |
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Mediator Edward Howden brought in outside experts to help resolve factual disagreements in a water dispute. |
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Former Community Relations Service Mediator Edward Howden describes how he got control of a very uncontrolled mediation process. |
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