Mediation and Dialogue Skills for CSDP Course

Pilot Mediation and Dialogue Skills for CSDP Crisis Management Activities Course

>Ireland, 19 -23 May 2014.

The aim of the Course is to give students an understanding of mediation and negotiation and allow them acquire a facility to be able to apply these techniques in CSDP crisis management operations and missions. The EU now engages alongside other international actors, in complex multi-faceted mediation activities. In addition, these instruments are required at all stages of a CSDP Crisis Management Operation or Mission. They may be needed by the mission leadership when dealing with stakeholders, or, at the working level, by EU police, military or civilian personnel, at isolated outposts, when trying to control an incident or interceding in a local dispute.

This Course will teach students to negotiate for themselves and then to use the mediation process, which includes negotiation, to help other parties to prevent, to manage and to resolve conflict. The course is open to both civilian and military personnel from EU‐Member States, EU Institutions and Agencies, candidate states and selected third countries and will be strictly limited to 30 participants

The content of the Course will be highly interactive with a strong emphasis on inter-personal engagement and learning by doing. The concept underlying the Course is to teach and practise students to be able to negotiate for themselves and then to use the mediation process, which includes negotiation, to help other parties prevent, manage and resolve conflict.

A large scale mediation simulation is the keystone aspect of the Course. It will be conducted in conjunction with the Irish Defence Forces.

To add authenticity to the Simulation, the faction leaders will be role- played by personalities from relevant civil society, academic and military backgrounds. The Course will be supported by a staff member of the Baltic Defence College.

Course Director: Kieran Doyle Academic Director: Prof Paul Arthur Course Manager;: Petteri Taitto Mediation Tutors-Brendan Mc Allister; Geoffrey Corry, Nicola White; Sean Mc Gearty; Sheila Mitchell Role Players/Assessment/Feedback- Tim Harrington;Gary Mason; Rory Finegan; Anita Hogan; Kingsley Donaldson; Augustine Meaher.
Kieran Doyle Kieran Doyle is Project Manager in the Edward M Kennedy Institute. He is presently completing a PhD on Work Based Learning and Experiential Learning Systems. A graduate of National University of Ireland Galway, University of Sheffield UK, Coventry University UK and L'École d'État-Major, Compiégne, France.	Tim Harrington Tim Harrington (Irish Ambassador to Croatia) formally a member of the European External Action Service (EEAS). He has worked in the Policy Unit of the HR/VP. He has also served on the CSDP Committee for Civilian Crisis Management (CIVCOM). He has an M.A. in War Studies from King's College London, B.A. in English Literature and History from University College Dublin.
Prof Paul Arthur Distinguished Senior Research Fellow of the Kennedy Institute. Formerly Professor of Politics and Director of the Graduate Programme in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster. Former Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington DC where his research was in Track Two Diplomacy. Jefferson Smurfit Distinguished Fellow in Irish Studies at the University of Missouri (2000). Fulbright scholar at Stanford University (2006-7).	Kingsley Donaldson Kingsley is an Army officer who previously worked as a strategy adviser to the head of the British Army. He read Irish Studies at Queens University Belfast, majoring on Irish history and politics and the development of terrorism in Northern Ireland. He has served on operations in a number of European and Middle Eastern countries in various roles that span from countering weapons of mass destruction through to negotiating with armed groups in Iraq. Kingsley is Director and co-founder of the Causeway Institute.
Petteri Taitto European External Action Service ( EEAS) and European Security and Defence College( ESDC).Previously, Crisis Management Centre, Finland, Emergency Services College Education- University of Jyväskylä	Anita Hogan Military Officer and Organisational Psychologist with wide experience of international peace support operations and organisational responses to crisis management.
Nicola White Irish and international expert, consultant and author on dispute resolution, specializing in mediation. Practice Manager for the largest independent alternative dispute resolution body in Europe. Head of the School of Dispute Resolution at a private college in Dublin. Awarded the Weinstein International Fellowship in ADR by JAMS, formerly visiting scholar at the Gould Mediation Center at Stanford Law School.	Augustine Meaher Director of the Department of Political and Strategic Studies at the Baltic Defence College. He holds a B.A. (Cum Laude) in History from Georgetown University, an M.A. in History from Tulane University and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Melbourne.
Brendan McAllister Former Director of Mediation Northern Ireland, specialising on transitional justice and mediation, coaching and training. He has acted as Mediation Advisor to the Parades Commission in Northern Ireland. In 2003 he was a Neighbourhood Renewal Advisor in England, working on racial tension, gang violence and social cohesion. As NI Victims Commissioner between 2008 and 2012, he was a principal advisor to Government concerning the needs of victims and survivors of the conflict in Northern Ireland.	Rev Dr Gary Mason Gary runs the largest faith-based redevelopment project in Western Europe. He is a close advisor to Protestant ex-combatants. Gary was instrumental in facilitating negotiations with paramilitaries and government officials. Lectures in political and academic forums throughout Europe, South Africa, the Middle East and the U.S.A. He holds a PhD in Psychology
Sheila Mitchell Sheila has a B. Sc. (hons) and 20 years experience as a mediator, trainer and facilitator with statutory and voluntary sectors on the island of Ireland and England. The genesis for Sheila’s work is in a number of peace initiatives throughout the height of the Northern Ireland “troubles” She has worked as a mediator with the Northern Ireland Parades Commission. She has designed and delivered programmes on Good Relations, Identity, Handling Conflict and Mediation Skills.	Dr Rory Finegan Military officer. PhD topic- Targeted Killings~ An Analysis of their Effectiveness and Implications for Counter-Terrorism Policies. MA in International Studies, MSc in Global Security from Royal Military College of Science (RMCS), Cranfield University. MA in Leadership, Management & Defence Studies (MALMDS) with NUIM. Lectures on Peacekeeping & Peacemaking Interventions at DCU
Sean Mc Gearty Experienced trainer who has worked on conflict situations in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kenya,Haiti and currently on a peace building programme in Afghanistan. Specialisations include conflict analysis and research, training and capacity building, mediation and the facilitation of dialogue processes. He has worked extensively on community based reconciliation and with projects which support civil society to effectively engage in peace processes.	Geoffrey Corry Specialist in conflict resolution, facilitation and mediation and has had considerable experience working on the Northern Ireland Peace process. He is a former chairperson of the Mediators Institute of Ireland.

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Pilot Mediation and Dialogue Skills for CSDP Crisis Management Activities Course

>Ireland, 19 -23 May 2014.

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