Services
Through its volunteers, MBB offers a wide range of conflict resolution services at no cost to communities and partners, principally in the following areas:
- Grassroots Conflict Resolution Capacity-Building: MBB works collaboratively in troubled locales around the world to strengthen and build the capacity of communities to prevent, resolve, and heal from conflicts in culturally appropriate and sustainable ways.
- Mediation for International Peace Groups and Organizations:
MBB offers highly skilled volunteer mediators, on an as needed basis, to international peace-building groups and organizations that are doing useful and important work and cannot afford to hire mediators.
- Mediation Advocacy: MBB advocates for and promotes the use of mediation and other conflict resolution processes as the initial and primary approach to resolving conflict, as opposed to initiating threats of violence or the use of violence. MBB works with US, UN, and other government and civil society leaders to foster and expand understanding and support for dispute resolution practices.
In each initiative, the mix of conflict resolution techniques and approaches varies depending on local needs, and may draw on, among others, the following array of services:
- Conflict assessments, conflict audits, and participatory research
- Conflict resolution systems design
- Conciliation education and training
- Interest-based negotiation education and training
- Critical incident debriefings and consultation
- Conflict prevention, mitigation, and resolution skills education and training
- Conflict resolution coaching and “train the trainer” programs
- Conflict de-escalation skills education and training
- Basic and advanced mediation training
- Victim-offender mediation skills education, training, and mentoring
- Restorative justice education and skills training
- Training mediation trainers and providing ongoing consultation, mentoring, and continuing education
- Collaboratively creating and advancing community mediation centers
- Community and family conferencing skills education, training, and mentoring
- Nonviolent communication skills education and training
- Consensus-building facilitation skills education, training, and mentoring
- Consultation and training to prepare stakeholders to participate in community empowerment processes
- Training to participate in and facilitate public dialogues on difficult issues
- Consultation on rule of law projects
- Assistance in integrating conflict resolution skills and programs into schools, neighborhoods, villages, courts, government agencies, and businesses
- Healing trauma and violence desensitization
- Training and education in bias awareness, prejudice reduction, white privilege, and cross-cultural issues
- Assistance in creating and implementing Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
- Consensus-building and coordination among NGOs
- Methods for encouraging heart-based communications
- Techniques to encourage healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation
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