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Topics Addressed by
Wallace Warfield


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  .When did you begin at CRS? When did you leave?
 
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        A. What did you do before coming to CRS?
                   
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        B. Why did you decide to work at CRS?
                   
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        C. What did you do at CRS (what was your role)?
                   
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  .When the case first came to your attention, what did you do?
 
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        A. When making an initial assessment of a case, with whom did you talk first? Next?
                   
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        B. Did everyone want you involved? If not, what did you do about that?
                   
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  .How did you do your onsite assessment?
 
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        A. How did you respond if you thought that CRS intervention might harm a legitimate protest activity?
                   
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  .How did you design a response plan?
 
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  .What did you do to build and sustain trust with the parties?
 
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        A. How did you build trust with the disputants?
                   
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        B. Was your race or ethnicity a factor in your ability to build trust with the disputants?
                   
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  .How did you identify underlying issues?
 
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        A. Did you find yourself assisting one party to understand the other party's perspective?
                   
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        B. Did you ever deal with a conflict that seemed to be truly intractable?
                   
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  .Tell me about your meetings with the parties when you were helping them to resolve their differences.
 
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        A. How did you assist in opening communications between the parties, to get them talking and listening to one another?
                   
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  .What did you do to diminish tension between the parties?
 
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        A. Did you provide technical assistance to the parties? Can you give some examples?
                   
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        B. Did you provide training for the parties? What types of training? Who did it?
                   
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  .Did you try to analyze or address power disparities between the parties? How did power differentials effect the process?
 
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        A. When you perceived a significant power imbalance did you try to level the playing field? How did you do this?
                   
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  .How would you describe your work in terms of your neutrality, impartiality, and objectivity in a case?
 
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        A. Did you ever intentionally act as an advocate for one side? Did you ever do this unintentionally?
                   
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        B. How much direction did you give the parties in mediation?
                   
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        C. Can you explain the difference between conciliation and mediation?
                   
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        D. How did you deal with it?
                   
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  .How did you deal with the media? Were they an asset or a liability to your work?
 
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  .How did you determine when to end your involvement in a conflict?
 
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        A. Did you take continuing responsibility for its implementation?
                   
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        B. Did you plan any follow up after the case was closed?
                   
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  .What were your measures of the success of your intervention?
 
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  .How did the changing nature of the civil rights movement and protest activity affect your work?
 
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  .Have there been changes in CRS over the years?
 
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  .What do you think are the most important skills and attributes of an effective civil rights mediator?
 
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  .Are there other important lessons that come out of your work?
 
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  .Mediation theory
 
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by Conflict Management Initiatives and the Conflict Information Consortium

Beyond Intractability maintains this legacy site as it was created in 2007 with only minor formatting changes made in conjunction with the posting of Phase II of the Civil RIghts Mediation project in 2025.


Copyright © 2000-2007
by Conflict Management Initiatives and the Conflict Information Consortium

Beyond Intractability maintains this legacy site as it was created in 2007 with only minor formatting changes made in conjunction with the posting of Phase II of the Civil RIghts Mediation project in 2025.