Introduction

The Conflict Management Expert Centre is an organisation that studies conflict in the broadest sense of the word. Conflict management and mediation are rapidly growing fields both nationally and internationally. Professions such as conflict manager and mediator need to be developed into mature professions and this requires theoretical and practical research, often of a multidisciplinary nature. The Conflict Management Expert Centre promotes research in conflict management and in this way hopes to contribute to the further development of the professions mentioned above.

Training

Since October 2007 the Conflict Management Expert Centre has been a training centre recognized by the NMI (the Dutch Mediation Institute). We offer a wide range of training programmes both in the field of mediation (a.o. Narrative mediation, Transformative mediation) and conflict management (a.o. Appreciative Inquiry, the Power of Dialogue). At the moment we are working on assessments leading to certification by the Conflict Management Expert Centre as a narrative and/or transformative mediator.  

training narrative mediation
Training Narrative Mediation

Cooperation

We work together with both national and international organisations in the field of conflict management. In cooperation with John Winslade, one of the founders of narrative mediation, we developed a 4-day training programme in narrative mediation.

With the German Institute SIKK (Institut für Kommunikatives Konfliktmanagement) we exchange expertise on victim-offender mediation, a form of mediation that yields very positive results in projects in Germany. It is interesting to map out the possibilities of victim-offender mediation in the Netherlands.

Gathering knowledge is one thing, sharing it is another. It is our firm belief that sharing knowledge promotes the cause of conflict management. We advise organisations on the kind of interventions that are most suitable to their problems and needs. We have built up a network of professionals in different fields to whom we can refer people seeking conflict management services.