Volume 11 – 2018, No. 2

The purpose of this article is to compile the main contributions and limitations of the avant-vanguard movementsregarding the instrumentalization of the factors that favour the construction of a relationship of trust between the mediators and the parties in Family Mediation, in order to present a measurement instrument that integrates the methodological singularities of the main studies carried out to date. To this end, the conceptualization of the studied element is shown, as well as the development of the research process, the psychometric analysis of the measurement instrument and the main conclusions about the needs that underpin the construction of the instrument.

In this paper, the stance of the bar, the General Council of Spanish Lawyers, concerning the promotion of ADR will be presented and analyzed. Lawyers are the first interpreters of the norms and also the main players in channeling social conflicts through Law. Therefore, at a key moment when justice is going through a deep crisis, the General Council of Spanish Lawyers is strongly involved in strengthening and modernizing the Justice System through the promotion of “the Integral Management of Conflicts by the Law”.

Family mediation has become one of the most widely used methods for managing conflicts in the family. In some of the conflicts in which the interest of children is involved, there may be symptoms of what some authors call the parental alienation syndrome. Managing these conflicts through mediation protects the interest of all the people involved and allows for more effective agreements.

This article aims to present a practical experience of intercultural mediation for conflict management focusing on the use of public spaces. This mediation case is part of a process of intercultural community intervention that began in 2014 in the neighborhood of San Cristóbal de los Ángeles, started by the agents of the community using a process of shared knowledge and identification of the conflicting areas. In this multipart conflict the open forum tool was used, drawing on the process-oriented psychology and methodology as a way to initiate dialogue and address the community conflict. Using this tool enabled an exchange of views between more than 50 people and dialogue at the same level of the 3 community agents (administration, professional resources and neighborhood).

The on-going training process of Cuban elementary school teachers constitutes one of the highest priorities of the Ministry of Higher Education in the country, in harmony with the deep economic and sociocultural changes and growing demands, whose aim is to reach higher quality in the professional performance of these educational professionals. This paper presents an analysis of the need to incorporate the different theoretical concepts of mediation as a method to addressdiversity and the individuality of each student in order to enhance the outputs of education in the educational, family and community contexts. For the development of this research, theoretical and empirical methods were used such as observation, interviews, and surveys to teachers, document analysis and synthesis, inter alia.