The Mediation Training Delivery Design Outline

Date: Friday 22nd April 2022 12:30 to 3:00 pm EST USA/ 07:30 – 10:00 pm Nairobi EAT/ Saturday 23rd April 12:30 – 03:00 am Singapore.

Student Mediation Awareness and Skills Training: Courtesy of MBBI and The Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Colgate University.

 

Title: Module 1 – Day 1: Basics of Mediation

Training Delivery time: 150 minutes

Aim: To impart a basic understanding of Mediation and the application of mediation, and relevance to their fields of study. To reach as many students as possible from a variety of study disciplines with an understanding of Mediation – it’s application to their day-to-day living, communities, businesses, families and nations. 

Program:

• 5 minutes: Welcome – Larsen, Vicki Jan Isler Peace Fellow 

• Introduction of session and of Facilitators Team

• 30 minutes: Global Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation – Wangari, Reverend Dr. Peter Mbaro, Director for The Center for Social Justice and Ethics (CSJE CUEA University Kenya)

• 15-20 minutes – Understanding Conflict and Management Styles – Erik 

• 20 minutes: Appropriate Dispute Resolution (Consensual & Adjudicative) – Anil

• 40 minutes: Mediation in General and Role Play (including the Evaluative / Facilitative / Transformative, Position vs. Interest)

• 25 minutes – Introduction, Mediation in General – Anil

1. 1. 15 minutes – Role play Demonstration – Anil, Erik, Wangari
      1. Mediator – Anil
      2. Roommate 1 (sleeper) – Erik
      3. Roommate 2 (party roommate) – Wangari
      4. A quarrel with a roommate about sleep times. One roommate likes to go to sleep early and needs quiet time. However, the other roommate likes to stay up late, listens to music or television and eats food at night, making too much noise. This keeps the other roommate awake late at night and angers them. 
   2. Discussion:
      1. Have participants tell us what they saw, where do you think the shared interests are?

5 minutes: Stretch Break Incorporated

• 15 minutes: The Singapore Convention on Mediation* (Enforcement of Mediated Settlement), the Mediation Agreement, and Culture of Mediation

• 15 minutes: Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI)  – Larsen, Max, Erik

• 10 minutes: MBBI and MBBI Peacebuilding Mission Across The World – Erik

•  5 minutes: [MBBI Vicki Jan Isler ‘77 Peace Fellowship] – Larsen and Max

• 5 minutes: What Next: Discussion for Future Modules, Announcement of Survey (Larsen)

What Next At The End of The Event: 

• Survey To Be Sent Out: Share experiences and to help us tailor future training (Modules).
• Mailing List: Join to stay involved, to keep informed on the fellowship and the future Fellows.
  

About Colgate University

Colgate is a distinctive, leading American university known for its intellectual rigor, world-class professors, campus of stunning beauty, and alumni famously loyal to their alma mater. 1819 – initial charter for Colgate University’s precursor. A modern leader in liberal arts education, drawing on centuries of tradition.

Learn more: www.colgate.edu

Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI) 

People building peace

Learn more: www.mediatorsbeyondborders.org

*The Singapore Convention on Mediation

United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (New York, 2018) (the “Singapore Convention on Mediation”)

Date of adoption: 20 December 2018

Open for signature: 7 August 2019 in Singapore and, thereafter, at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Purpose

applies to international settlement agreements resulting from mediation (“settlement agreement”). It establishes a harmonized legal framework for the right to invoke settlement agreements as well as for their enforcement. The Convention is an instrument for the facilitation of international trade and the promotion of mediation as an alternative and effective method of resolving trade disputes. Being a binding international instrument, it is expected to bring certainty and stability to the international framework on mediation, thereby contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), mainly the SDG 16. The Convention is open for signature by States and regional economic integration organizations (referred to as “Parties”). 

Learn more: https://uncitral.un.org/en/texts/mediation/conventions/international_settlement_agreements

 

Meet The In-Campus Mediation Training Facilitators & Coordination Team

 

HOST AT COLGATE UNIVERSITY USA

PROF. JACOB MUNDY; Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies; Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Colgate University.

Learn more: colgate.edu.

 

FACILITATORS

Anil, Erik, Wangari, Dr. Mbaro

Wangari Kabiru; WASILIANAHUB, Reverend Dr. Peter Mbaro; Director for The Center for Social Justice and Ethics (CSJE CUEA University Kenya), Anil Changaroth; Changaroth Chambers, Erik Steinecker; Mediators Beyond Borders International.

With acknowledgement of support provided by The MBBI Team, Colgate University and Roshan Melwani, and the students served.

 

CONVENOR AT WASILIANAHUB MEDIATORS AFRICA 

WANGARI KABIRU (Ms.); is a Conflict Transformation Coach and Chartered Mediator, and a Consultant to corporations leaders. The Design Thinking Mediator, She is the Convenor at WASILIANAHUB, a growing community of professional mediators that is focused on Conflict Transformation through better understanding and use of professional mediation in Africa. During her up-and- about time, Wangari enjoys communing with nature, game design thinking, and exploring space science through observatories and planetariums across the world ~ and in the real outer space world soon.

Learn more: wasilianahubmediators.co.ke

THE DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ETHICS (CSJE) AT THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA (CUEA, KENYA)

REVEREND DR. PETER MBARO; Is currently a Senior Lecturer at CUEA in the Centre for Social Justice and Ethics (CSJE) and serves as the Director of the CSJE. Dr. Mbaro has authored several works in the area of family, ethics, peace and justice. Since Sept. 2008, he has been teaching in the area of the Social Doctrine of the Church, with focus on Christian Ethics; Justice and Peace; Church Management and Leadership, hence, he has a rich experience. He serves as a Co-director of Globethics.net East Africa, an Advisory Board Member of the Globethics.net East Africa Programme. Dr. Peter Mbaro is a Diocesan Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Nyahururu (Kenya).

Learn more: cuea.edu.

 

VICKI J. ISLER ‘77 PEACE FELLOW

LARSEN KLEIN; Vicki J. Isler Peace Fellow.  Larsen Klein is a current Senior at Colgate University with double majors in Peace and Conflict Studies and Women’s Studies.

VICKI J. ISLER ‘77 PEACE FELLOW

MAX EDELSTEIN; Vicki J. Isler Peace Fellow. Max Edelstein is a junior at Colgate University. majoring in International Relations and Economics.

Learn more: mediatorsbeyondborders.org