Students at Oregon State University may not be aware of the Peer Mediation Center, so the center showcased their services with their “Mediation Madness” comedy night tonight. Where students can watch and participate in an improv act of peer mediation. “If you’ve seen Whose Line Is It Anyway?, it’s like that,” said Crystal Livingston, a senior in history and Peer Mediation Center coordinator. The audience gets to choose names for the actors, the issue, and watch four people acting as two mediators and two participants. The audience will watch the issue through all stages of mediation and participate throughout, and then they can submit two possible solutions to the issue. Livingston said the idea came up in a promotions committee meeting when they tried to think of a way to make a mock mediation attract students.
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What a great way to get people interested in mediation! There should be more of this kind of thinking.
On mediate.com there are a few authors that use humor very effectively to make their points. Check it out. One author is Robert Benjamin.
Posted by: Josh | February 17, 2006 at 04:51 PM
Regarding Shaprio's article -- I think the author's are exactly correct. Moving the conversation to the unoffical level enables the kind of creativity necessary to resolve these kinds of matters. This same dyanmic was used very effectively in the Arms Reduction Negotiations between the US and the USSR during the Cold War.
Posted by: Josh | February 17, 2006 at 04:56 PM