Checking date: 19/05/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Dispute resolution in social areas
(16834)
Master in Mediation, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (Plan: 345 - Estudio: 318)
EPD


Coordinating teacher: HERNANDEZ MOURA, BELEN

Department assigned to the subject: Criminal Law, Procedural Law and History Law Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
It is recommended to have passed the following subjects: - Introduction to negotiation - Negotiation process and techniques - Introduction to mediation - Techniques for the mediator
Objectives
The objective of the subject is to provide advanced knowledge in the field of alternative dispute resolution, in general, and mediation in particular. It provides specific knowledge about the process of family, neighborhood or community, school and labor mediation, the legislation applicable to each of them, as well as the different techniques and specific communication tools.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
Common themes: -Conflict and its different treatments -Appropriate conflict resolution methods -Mediation and its particularities in different fields. -Legal regulation of mediation Specific topics: -Legal regulation of family relationships -Judicial treatment of family conflict -Matrimonial crisis: separation and divorce. Effects of the rupture in the personal and economic scope, as well as in the sons and daughters. -Conflicts derived from the paternal-filial relations. Custody and custody, alimony, rebellion and school failure. Mediation in parental-filial conflicts. -Neighborhood and community mediation programs. -Relationships in the educational community and the transformation of conflicts in the educational environment. -School intervention projects -Practices
Learning activities and methodology
TRAINING ACTIVITIES - Theoretical classes - Practical classes - Individual student work TEACHING METHODOLOGIES -Presentations in class with computing and audiovisual media support, which develop the main concepts of the subject and provides the bibliography to complement the learning of the students. - Roleplay - Resolution of practical cases, problems, etc. raised by professor individually or in group - Presentation and discussion in class, under the moderation of professor of topics related to the content of the matter, as well as case studies - Elaboration of works and reports individually or ingroup. - Critical reading of recommended texts of the subject studied: press articles, reports, manuals, and/or academic articles, well for its subsequent discussion in class, either to expand and consolidate the knowledge of the subject.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • Galtung, J.. Paz por medios pacíficos. Paz y conflicto, desarrollo y civilización. Gernika. 2003
  • Lederach, J.P.. El abecé de la paz y los conflictos: educación para la paz. Catarata. 2000
  • Ordeñana Gezuraga, Ixusko. La conciliación y la mediación en cuanto instrumentos extrajurisdisccionales para solventar el conflicto laboral. Comares. 2009
  • Soleto Muñoz, H. (Dir.). Mediación y resolución de conflictos: técnicas y ámbitos . Tecnos . 2017
  • Álzate Sáez de Heredia, R., Fernández Villanueva I., y Merino Ortiz, C. . Desarrollo de la cultura de la paz y la convivencia en el ámbito municipal: la mediación comunitara. Revista: Política y Sociedad. 2013
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Additional Bibliography
  • Carretero Morales, E.. La mediación civil y mercantil. Dykinson. 2016
  • De la Hoz, C.. Mediación escolar: un proceso de resolución de conflictos y prevención de bullying en centros educativos . Familia: Revista de ciencias y orientación familiar, nº 57. 2019
  • Fernández, I., Villaoslada, E., Funes, S.. El conflicto en el centro escolar. El modelo del alumno ayudante como estrategia de intervención educativa. Catarata. 2002
  • Lloria García, P.. Convivencia ciudadana: mediación, conciliación y técnicas de prevención y resolución del conflicto ciudadano. Iustel. 2018
  • Martín Diz, F.. Nuevos escenarios para impulsar la mediación en derecho privado: ¿conviene que sea obligatoria?. Práctica de tribunales: revista de derecho procesal civil y mercantil, nº 137. 2019
  • W.Johnson, D, y T. Johnson, R. . Cómo reducir la violencia en las escuelas. Paidos. 1999
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The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.