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The Communtiy Mediator - NAFCM's Newsletter
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Evolution of The Community Mediator
by Craig Coletta
Welcome to NAFCM’s The Community Mediator webpage. The Community Mediator is NAFCM’s member newsletter. NAFCM recently decided to reformat and redirect the publication to make it more useful and relevant for mediation center staff and volunteers in the age of web-based communication. In years past, The Community Mediator served as a fairly typical newsletter, letting NAFCM members know what was happening in the field, at other community mediation centers, at upcoming conferences, and so on. In addition (we hoped), it served as a means of building a sense of community within the field, letting mediators know that here were like-minded colleagues across the United States. Since the advent and explosive growth of the internet, however, these objectives have been largely taken over (and achieved more completely and quickly) through listservs and web pages, making the quarterly newsletter an anachronism.
We’d like readers to think of the new The Community Mediator as a practitioner’s minijournal. In each issue, we will focus on a particular theme of importance to community mediators and seek articles that help us understand, work with, and respond to issues that might arise in our daily practice. We will introduce a “Friend in the Field” and highlight a NAFCM member center. Depending on the topic, we may include journalistic pieces, bibliographies, interviews, personal reflections, or other articles – whatever most helps our readers make use of new ideas and information.
In keeping with NAFCM’s policy of encouraging free exchange of information and of promoting serious discussion in the field, all material within issues of The Community Mediator may be reproduced with permission of NAFCM and the authors. While we don’t claim in any way that NAFCM’s The Community Mediator articles represent the “last word” on the subject matter presented, we hope that they might serve as an “opening paragraph” for community mediators to think about, talk about, and work with the vast range of human differences we experience in the course of our practice.
In keeping with our efforts to make best use of technology to maximize our services to members, The Community Mediator is available as both a print and on-line journal. We encourage you to open our documents on-line to take advantage of live-links and resource lists for materials dealing with subject matters discussed and community mediation and of course many other great resources including links to NAFCM member centers nation-wide.
We currently have open dialogue chats on our member listserv. Contact NAFCM to be added to the listserv roster. We hope you enjoy The Community Mediator’s new look. Thank you for your continued membership and support.
The Community Mediator Archives
 NAFCM News - Spring-Summer 1995
NAFCM News - Autumn 1995
NAFCM News - Spring 1996
NAFCM News - Summer 1996
NAFCM News - Autumn-Winter 1996-97
The Community Mediator - Spring 1997
The Community Mediator - Summer 1997
The Community Mediator - Autumn 1997
The Community Mediator - Winter- Spring 1998
The Community Mediator - Summer 1998
The Community Mediator - Winter-Spring 1999
The Community Mediator - Summer 1999
 Liability In Mediation.doc Practice Notes, by Ben Carroll - Spring 2000
The Community Mediator - Fall 2000
The Community Mediator - Winter 2000
Winter 2000 issue includes Ben Carroll's Practice Notes on Volunteer Mediator Certification.
The Community Mediator - Summer 2001
The Community Mediator - January 2002
The Community Mediator - Spring 2003
The Community Mediator - Summer 2004 (Theme-Diversity)
The Community Mediator - Spring 2005 (Theme - Quality Assurance)
ISCT Frequently Asked Questions - Full Version
How Do We Know a Mediator is Competent? ISCT Article
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