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GRETCHEN W. TAYLOR Attends MEDIATORS BEYOND BORDERS 4th Annual Congress in LOS ANGELES
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Desert Family Mediation Services and its team supports Mediators Beyond Borders with both our money contributions to this worthy organization, and our time.
The 4th Annual Congress is taking place this weekend at UCLA in Los Angeles. DFMS Mediator Gretchen W. Taylor is attending the program, and volunteered considerable hours helping to direct the fund-raising for tonight's Special Celebration honoring career mediation pioneers Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith. Authors, activists, organizers, and teachers, their wisdom and personal grace has touched people around the globe. DFMS is one of a number of mediator groups featured in tonight's tribute book as a donor.
Mediators Beyond Borders - Partnering for Peace & Reconciliation is a non-profit, humanitarian organization established to partner with communities worldwide to build their conflict resolution capacity for preventing, resolving and healing from conflict. This partnership involves the design and implementation of sustainable peace building initiatives responsive to the needs and culture of the communities, and to the history of each conflict. MBB is not a first responder, and is not prepared to intervene in the midst of violent crises.
Mediators Beyond Borders interprets "beyond borders" broadly. It acts across geographical, political, economic, societal, and cultural boundaries. MBB partners with NGO's, universities, political and activist groups, community organizations, professional societies, environmental, commercial and other entities worldwide to develop skills for group facilitation, public dialogue, strategic planning, collaborative negotiation, peer mediation, restorative justice, and public policy consensus building.
MBB considers the term mediator to be inclusive of a broad range of conflict management and resolution endeavors. Activities such as conciliation,consulting, facilitation, consensus building, conducting public dialogues, system design, restorative justice initiatives, education and capacity building to mitigate or prevent violence are all encompassed within a sweeping definition of mediator.
We wholly support this unique organization and expect to have continuing involvements with it in the future.
The DFMS Team
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Posted By Desert Family Mediation Services on
March 05, 2011 07:00 am |
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