SINCE 2006 · ON EVERY CONTINENT
You have handled conflict your whole life. Nobody ever taught you how.
Mediation is a social core skill that lies veiled within each of us. The World Mediation Organization trains, publishes, and connects the people who unveil it: across every border, every culture, and every conflict that matters.
Daniel Erdmann, Founder
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A Different Understanding of Mediation
Since 2006, the WMO has stood for a simple conviction: conflict is not a malfunction of human life, it is information about it. We call our practice Mindful Mediation, a discipline that is interdisciplinary by design, intercultural by necessity, and dogmatic about exactly nothing except honesty. We do not certify people into a legal category. We form practitioners who can read a conflict from the inside, in any culture, and help the people in it change what they are able to see. That formation happens in three rooms of the same house: the Expert Training, the Conflict Insight Journal, and a worldwide engagement that is building a heritage of honest research, one article at a time.
Where This Work Actually Comes From
Long before any of this was written down, every society on earth had somebody who stood between two parties. An elder. A council. A shared meal. A form of words that ends a matter.
We go and ask them. The WMO travels to communities whose ways of handling conflict were never written into a European textbook, and records those conversations with the people who hold them. What we learn there enters the training, the Journal, and the record of the Regions.
It is the reason we can say, honestly, that this discipline is intercultural rather than exported
Three Paths
The WMO Expert Training in Mindful Mediation. Five chapters, one examination, a certificate that means what it says, and entry to the Mediators Directory reserved for graduates alone. The Conflict Insight Journal, ISSN 2628 6998. Write about a real conflict, pass peer review, and take your place in a growing body of research read on every continent. Start free as a Reader. Then choose how far you go: Associate, Mediator, Fellow, and, in time, Emeritus. Each level carries the work, and each carries you further into it.Learn
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Where The Research Stands
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2006 FOUNDED IN BERLIN · MEMBERS, PARTICIPANTS AND READERS ON EVERY CONTINENT · CONFLICT INSIGHT JOURNAL, ISSN 2628 6998
IDEAS INTO PRACTICE
Conflict becomes clearer when people begin to see more.
WMO's work moves between study, research and real rooms: places where culture, pressure, history and competing interpretations meet.
OUR COMMUNITY
The people behind the work.
Discover the WMO Directory: members, researchers and journal contributors whose work connects this community across regions and generations.
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There is more than one way into the work.
Follow the question that brought you here. Study conflict, read current thinking, take part in the institution, or bring a difficult situation into conversation.
The William Zartman Prize · Awarded annually
One ring a year, or none. The field’s highest honour, given in memory of the scholar who wrote the preface to our training manual, to the finest research defended before the Conclave. It cannot be applied for, and it cannot be bought. The Prize →
The world does not need more mediators who look and think alike. It needs practitioners with the depth to embody universal principles in genuinely personal, culturally responsive ways.
Prof. Daniel Erdmann, Ph.D. · Founder and Director General
Decades of work. The next decade begins with you.
Read the Journal freely as a Reader. Belong from nothing, or from EUR 48 a year. Train to the highest standard we know how to set. Or simply write to us about one real conflict you cannot stop thinking about, because that is how every builder begins.