Euromediation secucities

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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.

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