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Topics Addressed by
Julian Klugman


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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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  .Background information on a case
 
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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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        C. How did you prepare for your intervention?
                   
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  .How did you do your onsite assessment?
 
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  .What did you do to build and sustain trust with the parties?
 
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        A. How did you prove your credibility?
                   
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        B. How did you build trust with the disputants?
                   
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        C. Did you find it necessary at times to help the parties define or prioritize their issues? How did you do this?
                   
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        D. How did you deal with seemingly intractable demands on a party's agenda for negotiations?
                   
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        E. How would you deal with a demand on one party's agenda that the other party said was non-negotiable?
                   
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        F. Did you ever deal with a conflict that seemed to be truly intractable?
                   
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        G. How did you decide who would be at the negotiation table?
                   
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        H. Did representation questions ever become a problem? How did you decide who would be allowed to speak for a group?
                   
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        I. Were you able to increase trust levels between parties? How did you do this?
                   
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  .What did you do to diminish tension between the parties?
 
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        A. Did a conflict ever escalate after CRS became involved? How?
                   
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        B. How did you initiate de-escalation?
                   
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  .Did you find yourself helping the parties strengthen their own capacity to deal with conflict?
 
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        A. Did you provide training for the parties? What types of training? Who did it?
                   
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        B. Did you assist groups with community organizing?
                   
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  .What did you do when you hit a brick wall in your effort to bridge differences between the parties?
 
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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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  .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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  .Are there other aspects of the process that you used that are worth noting?
 
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        A. Can you explain the difference between conciliation and mediation?
                   
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  .What cultural or racial factors influenced the process?
 
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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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        A. Were other enforcement mechanisms put in place?
                   
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  .What were your measures of the success of your intervention?
 
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  .Have there been changes in CRS over the years?
 
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        A. What do you think has been your greatest strength as a civil rights mediator?
                   
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  .Interesting anecdotes.
 
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  .Agency-related information
 
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  .LA riot history
 
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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.