European Mediation Conference - Building Relationships And Getting Results, 10-12 April 2008, Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Conference Overview - Sights and Sounds of the European Mediation Conference 2008
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Keynote Speakers (in order of presentation)

Pat Colgan, Chief Executive, Special European Union Programmes Body Copy of speech

President Ahtisaari, Chairman, Conflict Management Initiative Copy of speech

Dermot Ahern TD, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Copy of Speech

Jan Egeland, Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding

Mediation in the Peace Process in Northern Ireland (Panel Discussion led by Brendan McAllister)

The Voice of Mediation - after dinner speech by Brendan McAllister, delivered at Gala Dinner on 10 April 2008 (PDF copy of speech)

Ruth Wishart in conversation with Antonia Potter

Judge Machteld Pel, Director, Netherlands Court-Annexed Mediation Agency

Additional Information 1;
Additional Information 2; http://www.rechtspraak.nl/Naar+de+rechter/Mediation+naast+rechtspraak/Internationaal/

PowerPoint Files and Additional Workshop Information

SESSION 1 A

Katherine Graham - Internal Vs External Workplace Mediators

Patricia Hayes - Two Mediate or Not Two Mediate

Ian McDonough and Brendan Donaghy - Community Mediation and Anti-Social Behaviour

Marianne Souquet - Marital Mediation: a new alternative to therapy?

SESSION 1 B

Lesley Allport - Supervision in Mediation: linking quality and practice

Blazo Nedic - Mediation and Lawyers: prejudice or interest?

SESSION 2 A

Anne Monaghan - Transformative Mediation in the Northern Ireland Conflict

Peter O'Neill and Kirk Dawes - Working Across Formal Structures: community cohesion and social chane

Thomas Smith - Influencing the Process of Mediation with Metaphors

SESSION 2 B

Anne Brant and Kara Doran - Family Mediation Instead of Court

Matthias Ries - Ways of Overcoming Violence: experience with the Civil Peace Service
Part1; Part2; Part3

TRAINING SESSIONS

Ursula Caser - Making Public Participation Work: Mediation in the urban planning process

John Sturrock - Mediating Multi-Party Disputes

Macarena Mata and Barry Winbolt - Training in Self-Awareness for Mediators & Conflict Practitioners