Harvard Mediation Goes to Iraq
Community mediation in Iraq? You betcha.
Some successes are small. He described one mediation between two families: one household with young girls built a privacy wall that blocked sunlight from reaching the neighbor’s house. They had argued for months, and were close to blows. A mediator helped them cool down, and get away from their hardened positions. They came up with a solution: The family that built the wall paid for a skylight for the neighboring house.
See Iraq latest crucible for Harvard mediation - negotiations solve tribal disputes at the Boston Globe.
As Ken Cloke mentions in the slide show posted yesterday, these dispute resolution mechanisms are scaleable - the same process works on neighbor disputes as it does on disputes among nations.
