Research on Social Representations of Conflict and Mediation
Abstract
Mediation is a negotiated process operation of conflicts, led by a third neutral party –the mediator– without any power to assume, who searches options which reasonably satisfy the actors involved in a social relationship. Those actors have realized their conflicting objectives. The mediator facilitates communication, promotes understanding and seeks innovative solutions to the problems in order to allow the parties sort themselves out with their own arrangements. Within the research work, the term “representation” is used in the sense of Moscovici, which means subjective constructions that appear when the common sense prevails in the discourse analysis, and when individuals organize that knowledge in relation to their social context (Moñivas, 1994, p. 409). Those individuals construct and condition their behaviour in a given situation, since it is linked to mental schemes used by people to give meaning to the world and to communicate one each other.Downloads
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