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Community Mediation and Community Development In Scotland.

McDonough, Ian
June 4, 2015

Source: (2006) Restorative Justice Online. September 2006 Edition.

Over 3000 community conflicts in Scotland are resolved through Community Mediation each year. The NGO Sacro has developed a series of manuals for developing a Community Mediation service. The final manual addresses the role of community mediation in fostering community development. In this article, Ian McDonough, mediation adviser for Sacro, provides an overview of the manual with a link to the full-text.

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