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About Us Mediators Beyond Borders: Partnering for Peace & Reconciliation, formerly Mediators Without Borders, has been a concept for a number of years in the conflict resolution community. Ken Cloke took the initiative in outlining how a mediators without borders organization could be of service. During the fall of 2006, Ken, with involvement of his colleagues, Robert A. Creo, Joan Goldsmith, and Erica Fox, created and incorporated MBB as a formal organization and established an administrative office from which to operate. Soon after that, they organized an energetic team of conflict resolution professionals who agreed to serve as the founding Board of Directors. The paradigm on which MBB is built is that conflict resolution professionals donate their services to a specific peace building project for one to two weeks each year over a number of years. MBB will bring conflict resolution project teams into partnership with other organizations to offer broad services in response to a community's needs. Typical services promoting peace processes includes:
- Assessment Design Facilitation
- Conciliation Mediation Education
- Consultation Training in conjunction with NGOs already servicing a particular community desiring conflict mitigation
- Restorative Justice Programs
- Consensus and Coordination Building among NGOs
- Consultation and Facilitation on implementing consensus-based community empowered processes for public policy decisions
MBB works with many kinds of groups, including but not limited to; community groups, legal institutions, professional and commercial groups, educational institutions, governments, refugees, and youth groups. All services are provided via projects which undergo an extensive review process before being approved.
MBB shares its administrative offices with its sister organization, The Mesites Foundation, which supports the work of organizations dedicated to the education, training, and development of professionals in the fields of mediation and conflict management, and assists with the education and training of women and other under-represented groups in the constructive resolution of social problems in international and domestic societies.
The MBB Board of Directors meets twice each month by telephone conference.
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