Association AKRANDER
Mediation is a process where people who have a dispute, with the help of an impartial and independent mediator, evaluate their needs and interests, negotiate, and aim to end the conflict with solutions for the benefit and benefit of both sides.As it is known, negotiation is a process in which individuals, institutions, and states aim to understand the negative situation they are in due to the conflict and evaluate their demands to end this negative situation, and thus try to convince and influence the other party in order to get some things from each other.
However, while the negotiator focuses on ensuring that the other party thinks like itself and that its demands are accepted by the other party, on the other hand, it tries to understand the reason for its requests as of the situation of the other party and strives to produce common solutions for the benefit of both sides. The main purpose of negotiation, which is defined as a communication and decision-making process in which the parties exhibit their knowledge and skills to convince each other, is to create solutions in which the interests of both sides are satisfied.The difference between the mediation process and the negotiation process is that an impartial and independent mediator is involved as a third party in the dispute management process.
The mediator applies systematic techniques to ensure that the parties to the dispute understand each other and thus produce their own solutions. It brings the parties together in order to negotiate and negotiate and ensures that the communication process is established between them.The most important difference of processes such as negotiation and mediation from judgment is that the parties create their own solutions at the end of the process. Therefore, the mediator, who plays a critical role in the healthy communication of the parties to the dispute, is not the decision maker.
The mediator strives to achieve results in which interests are balanced as much as possible by using communication techniques required by his duty. There is no loser in this process, as the parties who have a dispute at the end of the process end the process with their own decisions and therefore with a solution that suits them.
More importantly, the mediation process is a process in which psychologically positive effects come to the forefront rather than financial interests, as the parties with disputes have the opportunity to express themselves during the mediation process and try to understand the problems from each other´s perspective. Therefore, when it comes to mediation, the WIN-WIN (WIN-WIN) approach comes to mind.
Peer Mediation, on the other hand, is a student-centered approach used in the constructive and peaceful management of conflicts between students in schools. The purpose of peer mediation is a process in which students in middle and high schools, in the 10-19 age group, are aimed to manage their conflicts with their friends by negotiating face to face.
In pursuit of legal mediation, the main purpose of peer-mediation is to have students discuss their own conflicts face to face, facilitated by a peer mediator classmate, to express themselves, to express their common problems and reasons, to express their feelings and reasons, to empathize with the other party, their wishes and reasons.To develop skills of expressing, generating solution options and making decisions. Students who develop with these social skills in school life will resort to interpersonal violence less frequently in adult life.
Diplomacy, in other words, our youth, who have developed with face-to-face negotiation skills, will be successful both in the social and emotional field and in the academic field, and will grow up as young people who are more civilized and free from the culture of violence.Teachers, academics and lawyers from many cities such as Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Bursa, Diyarbakýr, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Izmir, Mersin, Samsun, etc. Founding members of the Peer Mediation Association (Akran-Der), established in Ankara, A Kindness Movement It started out with the motto.
