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Course: 2024/2025

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Master in Mediation, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution - Blended Learning (Plan: 502 - 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

Course: 1º

Semester: 1º

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

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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

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES - Online synchronous/asynchronous theory class. - Online synchronous/asynchronous practical classes. - Theoretical and practical classes online synchronous/asynchronous. -Individual student work. - Online synchronous/asynchronous evaluation tests. TEACHING METHODS-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 - Viewing and analysis of negotiation recordings - 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 30
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 70

Calendar of Continuous assessment

Conflict resolution in social fields will be individually assessed through a final work that deepens in the aspects studied. Class participation will also be taken into account as well as the student attitude and competence in the realization of the different dynamics and practices (individually or/and in group) carried out during this subject.

- Participation in synchronous online class:30%
- Individual or group work carried out during the course in synchronous or asynchronous online mode.:40%
- Synchronous online final exam:30%

Extraordinary call:
Those students who have not passed the subject in ordinary call, will be summon to a final exam (100% value) in extraordinary call. 

In this course, students should not use artificial intelligence tools to carry out the work or exercises proposed by the faculty.
In the event that the use of AI by the student gives rise to academic fraud by falsifying the results of an exam or work
required to accredit academic performance, the Regulation of the University Carlos III of Madrid of partial development of the
Law 3/2022, of February 24th, of University Coexistence, will be applied.

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

Electronic Resources *

· Guía para la Práctica de la Mediación Intrajudicial - Consejo General del Poder Judicial : http://www.poderjudicial.es/cgpj/es/Temas/Mediacion/Guia-para-la-practica-de-la-Mediacion-Intrajudicial/

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

(*) Access to some electronic resources may be restricted to members of the university community and require validation through Campus Global. If you try to connect from outside of the University you will need to set up a VPN

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.