Conflict and Change Valuing conflict as an opportunity for creative change

We began as the UK's first community mediation organisation in 1984, and we are now engaged in four main areas of work:

Conflict Resolution

• We help people in dispute to talk with each other, understand each others' needs and find a way forward using mediation.
• Local volunteers representing the communities of Newham form our team of mediators.

Schools work

• We run programmes in local schools to help children, young people, and the adults who work with them to deal constructively with conflict.
• Conflict resolution workshops for children and young people.
• Training for student mediators and student workshop leaders.

Training

• We run accredited training courses in working with conflict for people who would like to become volunteer mediators with us and for others interested in conflict resolution skills.
• We run workplace training for local agencies in working with conflict.
• We train people to become trainers.

Community development

• We listen to different communities' ways of responding to conflict
• Then we work together to build existing skills through workshops in conflict resolution and communication.
• We look for opportunities to build bridges between communities.