Community Mediation Guide in Syria

Mobaderoon

Mobaderoon, a civic training company, who bears a social responsibility working on a vision “building trust and understanding to support and sustain a peaceful coexistence” by providing all forms of training and research, developing administrative skills for enterprises and teams, conducting studies and surveys, workshops, and conferences in the fields of raising awareness and community support.

Swiss Peace

We are a practice and research institute dedicated to advancing effective peacebuilding. Partnerships with local and international actors are at the core of our work. Together, we combine expertise and creativity to reduce violence and promote peace in contexts affected by conflicts.

A guide that focuses on knowledge and essential tools for community mediation, aspiring to be a reference for peace building activists, and to present the Syrian experience as one in the area of mediation within local frameworks.

A project in partnership with Mobaderoon and Swiss Peace.

Steps was responsible for:

Collecting and presenting mediation stories from community activists who lived through conflict and mediation in their environments.
Presenting the results and conclusions of a critical review of different mediation schools and references, and an attempt to add a new theory of change specific to this guide, based on a transformative approach and theory of human needs and non-violent communication.