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2020-21 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-21 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

IP 529 Advanced Mediation


This course is a practicum in advanced mediation/facilitation process. Students will examine the range of strategies available for managing conflict, including techniques that have proven most constructive in the field of peace and conflict resolution: consensus-based and transformative mediation. 

The first part of the course introduces students to the basic framework of mediation and examines three faces of leadership, how cultural differences affect communication, a study of the eight tools needed to mediate, and conduct simulations for several of the strategies for interpersonal, community and international mediation. The second part of the course is focused on a practicum, examining conflict in a variety of contexts.