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Conflict Insight

The negotiation table equals the operation table

How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This article argues that practical training in mediation should be modelled on medical residency rather than on role play. Developing an extended analogy in which the conflict is the patient, the author contends that the trainee must first learn to make a sound diagnosis, then to select among the available instruments, and must refrain from intervening until able to do both, since a poorly conducted mediation damages not

only the parties but the reputation of the method and the institution behind it. Central to the argument…

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Withdraw from Contract / Vertrag widerrufen