Presentation A – Brad Mustard, LL.B, LLM

Introduction to Cultural Awareness in Mediation

Learning Objectives:

  • Acquiring a culturally educated lens
  • Recognizing bias
  • Understanding cultural patterns- i.e. low and high context communication, low power distance high power distance)
  • Learning practical mediation interventions when working with the dynamics of culture

Presentation B – Dr. Mohamed Keshavjee, LLM, PhD (Lon)

Cross Cultural Challenges from a Family Mediation Perspective: from War-Torn Afghanistan to Post-Apartheid South Africa

Learning Objectives:

  • Complement Brad Mustard’s presentation by highlighting some real-life experiences.
  • Show how the present global model based on a Western, problem solving, satisfaction seeking, individualistic paradigm needs suitable adaptation to work in societies that are more relational.
  • Summary of the approaches that were taken to modify and apply the model successfully over a ten-year period in some 25 countries of the world.

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