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Community Mediation
What is Community Mediation?
Community Mediation improves life within the community and helps people to cope with or resolve disputes and issues that can lead to conflict between neighbours or the community as a whole.
Mediation empowers individuals or the community as a whole to make their own decisions, working towards easing tensions and stress. It also helps to build and strengthen a feeling of community spirit.
Why bother with mediation?
Well it reduces the number of people whose only option is costly legal action. Mediation saves time, money and manpower for statutory agencies, e.g. police, local authority, welfare rights, etc. and is more effective than some forms of Anti Social Behaviour initiatives.
The majority of issues between neighbours are more suited to mediation than Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs). Early intervention through mediation has a success rate of over 92%
If you look at the pyramid below you can determine where your dispute fits and if it is mediatable?
Alliance Mediation Management Ltd, Mercury House, Shipstone Business Centre, North
Gate, Nottingham, NG7 7FN
Registered in England and Wales. Company Registration No
5826353
Useful information -
Definition :
Mediation is the intervention of a neutral, independent, impartial third party into a dispute or conflict situation. The Mediator's role is to empower and encourage the two parties involved to reach their own solutions.
Mediation Seeks To:
- Change disputing behaviour
- Resolve Conflict
- Work out realistic workable solutions
- Maintain a balance between parties
- Treat people fairly
- Empower people
Mediation Provides The Opportunity For People To:
- Communicate
- Exchange feelings, ideas, concerns and perceptions
- Negotiate
- Become actively involved in the making of decisions about their lives.
Mediation Is:
- Positive
- Informal
- Staged -
takes a step by step approach - Non blaming or judgemental
- Confidential
- Effective in dealing with a variety of issues
- Focused on the future
- A voluntary process.
Who pays for mediation?
Some Local Authorities provide mediation as an alternative to Anti Social Behaviour as it is often more effective and provides the opportunity to build bridges between parties. You can check with your Local Authority or speak to us about your options.
If your Local Authority does not provide this service then contact us as we work with several Local Authorities, have a wealth of experience in Community Mediation (see case study above Useful Information) and can provide experienced mediators at reasonable costs.
Crime is not Mediatable
The majority of Anti Social Behaviour is actually Bad Behaviour
and
Bad Behaviour is Mediatable