1. Mediation - principles and ethics
Dr Pascal da Rocha, UN Women

2. Objectives Understanding of mediation principles
Appreciation of dispute resolution tools
Awareness of mediation issues

3. Pedagogy 7 working groups with 5 people each
Resource people will serve as observers and assistance
Within the groups, discuss and brainstorm freely
Each group has one leader, one presenter and one time-keeper
Please keep the time to ease discussions
Pin your results on flip chart for knowledge sharing
Each exercise will end with debriefs and question time

4. What is mediation? under the invitation of the parties to a conflict
parties accept the intervention of the third party
appropriate when the parties have an uneven power balance
when the parties want to reach a joint agreement
parties desire to resolve the dispute is high
parties have the ability to reward or harm each other
Some external pressure to resolve dispute
verbal, interactive process

5. Why mediate? Parties have greater control of agreement
Personal empowerment for all parties
Preservation of ongoing relationship
Termination of relationship amicably
Workable and implementable timelines and decisions
Agreements and decisions are not mere compromises, they hold over time.

6. Exercise Split into groups of 5
Agree on team leader, presenter and time keeper
Task: discuss and share a definition of mediation
Write your definition of mediation onto flipchart paper
12 mins in total

7. Definition
Mediation is the intervention into a dispute or negotiation by an acceptable, impartial and neutral third party who has no authoritative decision making power. This person assists contending parties to voluntarily reach their own mutually acceptable agreement.

8. Exercise
There are 4 other conflict management methods: negotiation, conciliation, arbitration, litigation
Work in groups and discuss what defines these methods and what distinguishes them from mediation
Once you have discussed 4 methods, kindly attempt to find a definition for each alternative dispute resolution method
15 mins max and then report back in the plenary

9. Mediation vs ?
Negotiation: solution to a specific issue in the form of a compromise
Conciliation: conflict management with specific results (from Latin: conciliate - to unify)
Arbitration/litigation: judgement and authority over a particular issue deferred to a decision-making body
Mediation: consensual mode of conflict regulation with the sole aim to open new channels of communication

10. Role of a mediator? The opener of communication channels The convener
The legitimizer
The process facilitator
The trainer
The resource expander
The problem explorer
The agent of reality
The scapegoat
The leader

11. Principles & Ethics Voluntary & consensual Confidential & principled
Power & bias (impartiality and neutrality)

12. Summary

13. Questions and Discussions
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Questions and Discussions