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Did CRS ever co-mediate with mediators who were not with the agency?
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Angel Alderete
[Full Interview] [Topic Top]
Question:
Did you usually work alone or did you have a co-mediator?
Answer:
In mediation I usually worked alone. Many times, from the very beginning to the end.
There were times -- two times -- where somebody else started the
process towards mediation and then when he got very close to it, he called me in, or she'd call
me in, and we'd work to get it towards that end and I would mediate. That was when we had
conciliators who were conciliators, and mediators who were mediators, and the differentiation
was that I did the official hard-core mediation and they did all the conciliation work.
Will Reed
[Full Interview] [Topic Top]
Sometimes you developed strategy with
somebody that
wasn't part of the agency but who might have been, for example, another agency, a sister agency,
contemporaries or what have you. You might find yourself developing some strategy with the
police
department. You might find yourself discussing strategy with a community action director. You
might find
yourself discussing strategy with anybody that you felt fit into the scheme of things to the point
where they
could make a contribution and where you were comfortable with their input. And that happens
lots of
times when you are in the field. Especially if you are out there and you are by yourself. And if
you're by
yourself, you're trying to figure out who you're going to work with. Who's amicable to this
situation?
Who's hostile to the situation?
| Will Reed
[Full Interview] [Topic Top]
That took
about three days of phone calls -- getting individuals from Washington involved, from the
Community
Action Program (CAP), getting some people from the regional CAP involved, and so forth.
Dick Salem
[Full Interview] [Topic Top]
Question:
Why did you send
four people up originally? That sounds like a higher number than our other interviewees in the
initial assessment.
Answer:
The first assessment that I did, we sent Jim Freeman from the Washington staff and one field
worker from my region with him. That was about par for the course. I might have even sent
Greenwald up because he was a specialist, too, having done Louisiana. When I went in, I just
figured I needed all the help I could get. Greenwald was available, and that just made me
stronger, I wouldn't have known how to interpret anything up there. The guys could help me, and
then I just winged it after that.
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