Mediation & Peacemaking

Understand the complex challenges mediators face when facilitating dialogue at the international level and practice your negotiation and mediation skills.

Mediators bring conflict parties to the negotiating table and support them in finding agreements. While mediation used to be a domain reserved exclusively for diplomats and UN envoys, in the last decade the range of actors in the mediation field has broadened and the field has professionalized. In this course, participants gain insights into the complex challenges of peace mediation in today's world.