About - Goal and Approach
The PMC enables participants to deepen their understanding of peace mediation and negotiation, as well as to acquire specific skillsets, knowledge, and attitudes to engage with and support such processes effectively.
Key elements of the PMC include:
- Overview of the landscape of peace processes and mediation today
- Insights from leading experts and mediators on how to design and manage processes
- Practice of essential mediation skills through interactive exercises and roleplays
- Analysis of thematic areas shaping peace mediation processes
To address these elements, the course uses the following training methodology:
Experience oriented:
The PMC is practical and experience driven – the basic learning tools are past and ongoing mediation and negotiation case studies. Conceptual frameworks are used to help analyze these experiences and extract learnings. Exclusive exchanges (e.g. “fireside chats”) with high-level mediators provide candid insider experiences of mediation and negotiation processes.
Interactive learning:
The sessions are designed to enable highly interactive training methodologies.
Head, heart, and hands
Attitudes and values are as important in mediation as knowledge and ‘technical’ skills. The course aims at a comprehensive and self-reflective approach to mediation.

To be a good mediator you must be a good listener. You have to listen to not only what is being said but what is not said