Mediation

Peace mediators assist warring parties in finding lasting solutions at the negotiation table. As such, mediation has become an increasingly prominent way for dealing with protracted and often violent conflicts.
Mediation is a complex political endeavor that requires patience and perseverance. Mediators work in teams and rely upon professional support structures. For that reason, many mediation actors (such as the United Nations, the African Union or Switzerland) have set up their own mediation support units that help their mediators to be as effective as possible.

News

3 April 2012
The Mediation Support Project (MSP) has seconded a
swisspeace Mediation Expert to Yangon
in support of an a local Myanmar NGO active in peace promotion through capacity building and knowledge transfer. The specific role of business actors in supporting peace and the question of how the different stakeholders can best participate in the peace process are key elements of the deployment.

2 April 2012
Former Mediation Support Project Staff Member Damiano Sguaitamatti and Program Officer Sara Hellmüller have published a chapter on
'Macht und Gerechtigkeit in Friedensverhandlungen'
in: Mediation erforschen? Fragen - Forschungsmethoden - Ziele, Dominic Busch, Claude Hélène Mayer (eds.), Institut für Interkulturelle Praxis & Konfliktmanagement (2012). Link

2 April 2012
The swisspeace Mediation Program Has Conducted a
Two-Day Training Course on Negotiation Techniques and Concepts
in the Framework of the 16th European Training Course in Security Policy Organized by the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP), 23- 24 February 2012.

10 January 2012
MSP participated from 2-4 December in Bangkok in the
'Asia Pacific Mediation Leadership Summit'
Among other topics, participants discussed the issue of peacemediation as well as gender and mediation. More

5 December 2011
In collaboration with the Swiss FDFA, the swisspeace Mediation Support Project organizes the
Peace Mediation Course 2012.
A specialized training for practitioners. Apply by 31 January. Flyer