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High-level Mediation Workshop

A joint training event of the Organization of American States (Department for the Promotion of Peace), the Forum of Federations and the University of Kent (CARC)

By nl202 | 11 February 2021

The two-day negotiation workshop (March 18-19th, 2021) aims at enhancing professional conflict resolution standards in mediation practice. The course will be delivered by CARC with the support of international experts and institutions specializing in the techniques, tools and practices to prevent and resolve conflict non-violently and will address themes such as: global climate action; federalism and power-sharing; citizens and opinion polls; linkages and trade-offs; gender and negotiations; Covid- 19 and its aftermath, among other key contemporary challenges.

March 18-19 (9:15 EST to  4:45 EST)

 

Welcome:

Karen Cox, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of the University of Kent

Luis Almagro OAS Secretary General

Rupak Chattopadhyay President and CEO of the Forum of Federations

Chair: Neophytos Loizides, Director of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC), University of Kent

 

Day 1 (morning) Intro & main principles of negotiation:

What mediation can do for you? (Heineken Apart Ad)

Gender and negotiations

Thinking outside the box (nine dots and other mini-exercises)

Cafe Diplomatico simulation

Fair trade regime (multi-phase/ reiterated prisoner’s dilemma)

 

12:00-1:00 EST (4:00-5.00 pm Canterbury)

Annual John Burton Lecture by Magdalena Talamas (OAS, Department for the Promotion of Peace)

(the keynote is open to the students and the public please see login info here) 

 

Lunch Break: 1:00-2:00 EST

 

Day 1 (afternoon) Becoming a skilled negotiator/ interactive simulations:

BATNA (negotiating a new house purchase simulation)

Negotiating a federal constitution/gender quotas  (multi-issue, multi-party, multi-universe simulation)

Auction of 10 pound note

Becoming a Good Listener & Let’s Vote video (discussion)

Ugli orange simulation

Discussion of ‘What is a good mediator?’ (Martti Ahtisaari video)

 

 

Day 2 (morning) Concepts and Methods:

Inclusive Mediation

Linkages and trade-offs (what drives public support in peace settlements?)

Federalism and Decentralization

Beyond western concepts of mediation

What do large cross-national data tell us about conflict management

 

Lunch Break: 12:15-1:15 EST

 

Day 2 (afternoon) Case studies:

Sri Lanka (When power-sharing mediations fail)

Mali (a multiparty conflict caught in the War against terror)

Northern Ireland  (d’Hondt formula)

Cyprus (UN’s meditration vs. mediation-lite)

 

Conclusions & Next Steps

 

Workshop coordinators:

Diana Chebenova (Forum of Federations)

Neophytos Loizides (University of Kent)

Magdalena Talamas (Organization of American States)

Liam Whittington (Forum of Federations)

 

Participating presenters/trainers :

 

Nadine Ansorg (University of Kent)

Theresa Bachmann (University of Kent)

Rupak Chattopadhyay (Forum of Federations)

Esra Cuhadar (United States institute of Peace)

Yvan Guichaoua (BSIS/University of Kent)

Clayton Govinda (ETH Zürich)

Andrea Hartmann-Piraudeau (Consensus Group)

Neophytos Loizides (University of Kent)

John McGarry (Queen’s University Kingston)

Edward Morgan-Jones (University of Kent)

Christina Murray (UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs)

Duygu Ozaltin (SOAS/University of Kent)

Raluca Popp (University of Kent)

Magdalena Talamas (OAS)

Harmonie Toros (University of Kent)

Categories: Public engagement event
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