Euromediation secucities
The Euromediation working group has as general objectives:
1. Promote the knowledge and the comparison of mediation
practices activated at a local levels, in a European context,
in its various areas of application (social, scholastic, penal,
domestic, intercultural);
2. Determine a set of approach parameters to the different
forms of mediation in different urban contexts shared by the
workgroup;
3. Define a theoretical reference framework, which can be
connected, through the acquisition of a shared terminology,
with the production of specific techniques and instruments
useful to handle conflicts and mediation practices, in local
contexts, that can be transferred to other European urban
situations.
The working group held 4 seminars, one in each of
the partner cities. Firstly partners discussed the different
meanings of the term mediation which existed in their city
using practical project examples from a local context.
The working groups concluded 4 main points:
> Typologies of Mediation – considering the area
of intervention and the different target groups
> Mediation Practices – these can be determined
by different geographical areas of intervention
> Fundamental principles of Mediation – ideally mediation
should be accessible to all, neutral; independent, process
orientated, informal and confidential
> Criteria for comparison and evaluation – in order to
compare and review the activities in the partner cities
The final conference for this working group was held
in October 2006 and was essentially the part of the project
which was open to the public and presented the finding
of the working group.