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2015-2016 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

IP 515 Mediation and Conflict Coaching

Conflict Transformation in general can be divided into three main areas based on the role of the conflict specialist. Conflict specialists work toward transformation as third party neutrals, as advocates, and as justice facilitators. In each area the conflict worker aims at empowering the disputants to make their own decisions, actively have a say in the processes, in short, author their own histories. This course focuses on Mediation and students will learn the processes and major skills in mediation (neutrality) This course will be taught in the classroom and include one weekend of mediation training giving students both an academic and theoretical understanding of mediation, as well as training and practice.