About Our Clinics

Mediators without Borders ® (MwB) is pioneering a network of international alternative dispute resolution (ADR) clinics around the world. These clinics foster sustainable peace through a focused intent to transform both the ADR learner and the disputants who use the clinics. Each MwB clinic will serve as a local ADR center, helping to identify culturally relevant and local/global solutions to specific conflicts such as, national boundary disputes, ethnic disputes, religious disputes, and political disputes. This information will contribute to a global body of alternative dispute resolution research accessible to other MwB International clinics around the world. Each MwB clinic owner enters into an exchange with MwB, whereby the clinic supplies MwB with culturally relevant norms and common disputes. In return, the clinic owner uses the MwB ADR curriculum and the MwB brand and has access to the MwB virtual social learning network.

MwB’s clinic model combines ADR education and social action research projects highlighting:

• A learner and disputant centered model which includes local storytelling and each parties interpretations; exploring relevant historical motivations; understanding cultural norms of the family, community and nation; reframing and framing joint solutions; identifying how a memorandum of understanding between the parties will be constructed
• ADR case studies that collapse the learning distinction between the ontology- the nature of the reality of the dispute- and the epistemology- the belief system that guides ones reality of the dispute; identifying the interests underlying the issues and positions of the dispute
• Builds on the belief that learners achieve more and disputants are compelled to transform while working on relevant social conflicts
• MwB clinics will be able to share best resolution practices with other clinics around the world in critical areas of environmental, national and regional conflict
• Economic Sustainability: Early and effective conflict resolution within corporations, governmental institutions, and societal organizations will help provide needed stability for national and regional economies to not only survive but thrive
• Environmental Sustainability: MwB clinics will operate using green building technology and share this knowledge with local and national institutions
• MwB Clinics around the world will be connected virtually utilizing state of the art technology, which includes the E-Beam Whiteboard System, Virtual Linking Software, Web and Video Conferencing, and bi-weekly Virtual Role Playing Scenarios.
  

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