One employee of the Calabria Regional Administration as coordinator in charge of the CMA; 1 employee of the Calabria Regional Administration in Cosenza cooperating with the team; 3 mediation female experts employed by the Regional Administration for juvenile penal mediation and family mediation; 1 staff of the Juvenile Justice Center (JJC) as delegate for juvenile penal mediation; 1 staff of the Reggio Calabria YWO as JJC mediation delegate for the district under the jurisdiction of the Reggio Calabria Juvenile Court.
The school system on which the Calabria Mediation Centre is based is one of Jacqueline Morineau, a classical archaeologist and a specialist on Greek numismatics, a researcher at the London British Museum for over a decade; eventually she became keen on mediation and worked out an original system to train mediators in many countries, i.e. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium etc. Mrs. Morineau gives mediation a somehow hardly scientific touch (literally speaking), as she moves from the premise that human and social sciences have no links with the truth, since they merely create exact propositions resulting from certain premises. According to this school, mediation means first of all applying original methods to so-called unsocial, illegal behaviours which instinctively cause feelings of rebellion, irritation, revenge, incomprehension. Therefore mediation calls for ability to stand the fear of potential disrupting effect of these social sentiments and to find one's way among people who entertain them. A peculiar idea of conflict is therefore necessary.
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Tools in Network is a project of the Department of Juvenile Justice - Ministry of Justice of Italy in the framework of the Leonardo Da Vinci Education and Culture Lifelong Programme