Asking about What a Wife is Cooking, Wearing a Shawl, and 8 Other Skills To Become an Active Insider Mediator
Read Time: 6 minutesWe always hear of community individuals called “insider mediators”, who can play an interfering role in conflicts, who are socially accepted as such, whom are heard out by conflict parties. They often take the initiative in turning the tide in conflicts or resolving them, and they are keen on understanding their communities and ongoing conflicts […]
Mediation: Selected Tools for a Successful Mediation
Read Time: 5 minutesConflict is a part of our daily struggle as humans, it is spread out in all aspects of life: in our institutions, families, universities, etc., on both the individual and group levels. The certainty and multidimensionality of conflict do not opt out the fact that studying and dealing with conflict is both crucial and a […]
Mediation: The Art of Knowing the Wishes of Conflict Parties
Read Time: 7 minutesMediation: The Art of Knowing the Wishes of Conflict Parties “I sometimes lie when I talk to the conflict parties,” one insider mediator said, “I tell them the other side wants to talk with them, even if they have told me they do not want to talk.” But then he corrected himself: “Well, in a […]
How the mediator designs the process to go from “No” to “Yes”
Read Time: 5 minutesHow the mediator designs the process to go from “No” to “Yes” The truck stopped and workers unloaded the furniture agreed upon between the merchant and the manager of the educational institution, but some seats were clearly broken and damaged, and when the manager saw that, she refused to receive the furniture and asked the […]
