Blog Being a Mediator

The mediator Alicia Pérez already advanced it in her previously published article about the social mediation as a fundamental basis for citizens when it comes to resolving their conflicts, with special emphasis on preventing situations that may destructure the social and/or family environment. This week we leave you with an interesting article that reflects on the importance of neighborhood mediation and the responsibility of local administrations:

Article written by: Ángel B. Gómez Puerto, jurist specialized in Family Mediation from the University of Córdoba (UCO).

I recently participated in a seminar on the “culture of agreement” in the Sevillian district of Triana, organized by the association that manages the mediation service in this Sevillian neighborhood. This is a novel municipal service, which has been operating as a “pilot” experience since February 2013, and which focuses its activity fundamentally on neighborhood mediation. Actually, I found it very interesting, a good practice to extend.

In the city of Córdoba, little by little the culture of mediation is taking hold, although for now only in professional fields., not neighborhood or social. Thus, last year 2013, almost one hundred professionals from law, psychology or work/social education developed the specialization course in Family Mediation at the University of Córdoba. And a few days ago the Course of Civil and Commercial Mediation that we are studying around ninety jurists from the Córdoba Bar Association.

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The mediation  It is even closer to the average citizen, so that conflict resolution is carried out through "agreements" and both parties always benefit without going to court.
If a few weeks ago we reported a casting of mediators for a new television format based on mediation, now it's the radio's turn. And it is that Radio 5 of RNE has its own space dedicated to mediation.

'MediAction. A space for conflict resolution is the program in question, directed and presented by journalist Juan Ballesteros and Isabel Ralero, president of the NGO Intermedi@cción. In it journalism is combined with social mediation, through the analysis of cases sent by listeners to then give the keys on how to positively confront and resolve all these various situations of disagreement in everyday life.

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Liduvina Calatayud Cros.- In Mediacciona We are a team of professionals who work to make environmental mediation a common practice in our environment and that the management of environmental conflicts is done in an agile, economical, sustainable, reliable way and supported by citizen participation. Our proposal is the addressing environmental conflicts through mediation.

What is an environmental conflict?

We define environmental conflict as a particular type of social conflict in which the issue in dispute is environmental conditions and people's quality of life. In these conflicts there is an explicit controversy - of information, interests or values - between at least two interdependent parties that pursue supposedly incompatible goals.

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Article written by: Alicia Perez, social worker, mediator and social expert. Co-author of Civil and Commercial Mediation Course from Didactic Foundation XXI.

lNowadays, mediation has become a great commitment from different levels such as the Public Administration, but also from other private spheres, with the aim of building a new citizenship based on dynamics of conflict resolution different from other more well-known ways of resolving conflicts. the conflicts.

Mediation is considered as a communication process that allows conflict situations to be addressed, which with the intervention of the mediator (a neutral and impartial third party) helps the parties to voluntarily achieve a positive situation in the face of the conflict. This is built from some fundamental principles that lay the foundations to differentiate it from other methods of conflict resolution, such as the ordinary judicial system.

These fundamental principles are the voluntariness of the parties and the impartiality and neutrality of the mediator. On the other hand, when the parties find themselves in a situation of stagnation, with the help of the mediator, they try to find different alternatives in a coordinated and consensual manner that allow them to optimize agreements capable of responding to the interests that each one has. with a collaborative sense between both.

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The contracting platform of the Junta de Andalucía, once again, highlights the job and professional opportunity for mediation, because it is also a discipline susceptible to specialization and applicable to a large number of different areas, such as in this case the intercultural field related to health. This is why the Public Health Business Agency Hospital de Poniente seeks to include socio-health mediation within its services, something necessary after the high immigration rate that Almería registers according to INE census data.

The Almería public hospital complex, regional in scope, located in El Ejido (Almería), opens tender to implement a Mediation Service at the hospital. The deadline for receiving applications ends on December 11 at 2:00 p.m. This commitment to mediation from hospitals, which translates into a good job opportunity for mediators, is something that, without a doubt, will greatly benefit those who are really protagonists: patients, especially foreigners, who will be able to see themselves better socially integrated. within the field of health.

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Article written by: Elisa Godino, author and professor of Civil and Commercial Mediation Course from Didactic Foundation XXI. Psychologist and family mediator.

dI have always known that I wanted to dedicate myself to the social field, so I specialized in topics related to intervention with families and couples therapy, fields that I developed at the COORDENADAS Family Guidance and Mediation Center. I still remember when I decided to make my first mediation course and The questions that were running through my mind about it: What really is Mediation? Why is it so important to use it to resolve family conflicts?

Mediation is an effective and useful conflict management alternative that encourages the positive and peaceful resolution of everyday problems that may arise in different areas of human relationships, such as family relationships.

But, Why is mediation considered the most appropriate means to resolve family conflicts?

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