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Oral History Project Phase I

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Topics Addressed by
Renaldo Rivera


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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. What civil rights or conflict management work did you do before your CRS work?
                   
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  .Background information on a case
 
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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. How did you identify the proper people to talk to or get involved?
                   
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        C. How did you identify leaders?
                   
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        D. How did you decide when to meet separately with the parties and when to bring them together?
                   
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  .What did you do to diminish tension between the parties?
 
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        A. Did a party ever threaten to walk out of a mediation? What did you do then?
                   
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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 help the parties prepare for mediation or any joint meetings?
                   
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        B. Did anyone ever ask you to become an advocate or to tilt the table in their favor? How did you respond?
                   
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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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  .Are there other aspects of the process that you used that are worth noting?
 
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        A. How much direction did you give the parties in mediation?
                   
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  .Were you able to detect when an internal conflict existed within a party that was inhibiting progress?
 
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        A. How did you deal with it?
                   
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        B. What types of resources from within the community would you use? How did you get them involved?
                   
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        C. Did other organizations or people within the community help limit the intensity of the conflict or help resolve it? Who? How?
                   
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  .How did you deal with issues of confidentiality during your casework?
 
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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. Did you take continuing responsibility for its implementation?
                   
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  .What were your measures of the success of your intervention?
 
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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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  .Agency-related information
 
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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.