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Mediators Beyond Borders International builds local skills for peace and promotes mediation worldwide.

10/09/2026

Leadership today asks for a specific kind of calm. The kind you hold while everyone else is losing theirs. Not the peace of stepping away from conflict. The peace of standing inside it, and leading people through.

If you’ve ever been the person everyone looked to for a way forward in the middle of a disagreement, you already know: peace under pressure isn’t an accident. It’s a skill.

You’ll benefit from this training if you’re a:

Corporate leader or head of a private organization navigating conflict as part of the job
Faith community leader guiding a congregation through disagreement or change
Educator shaping how the next generation learns to handle conflict
Head of a public organization balancing competing interests and stakeholders
Experienced mediator ready to build leadership-specific skills on top of what you already know

If you see yourself on this list, you’re exactly who Dr. Ken Cloke and Dr. Joan Goldsmith had in mind. Join us!

November 14–16, 2026 (Saturday–Monday)
In-person | Denver, Colorado

Register Now - https://lnkd.in/eVudDXf9

10/07/2026

MBB Europe had a booth at the Just Peace Open Day in The Hague! A powerful day connecting new people to community mediation and peacebuilding

09/29/2026

Elena Andary sees mediation as a powerful but underused tool, particularly in disputes that may appear too complex or high-stakes for anything other than a formal legal process. Arbitration has its place, she says, but it is not always the best way for parties to resolve their differences. “For traditional lawyers, mediation is a nontraditional way.” Part of the challenge, in her view, is how mediation is understood. It is often associated with smaller disputes, such as family law, rather than with the kinds of complicated commercial and international disputes that can involve millions of dollars and significant competing interests. Thanks to the mediators who trained her, Elena sees mediation as a form of organized communication: creating a space where people can understand what the other party actually wants and why. “Resolving a dispute is always just about learning about others, learning about the interests of others.”

Read the full article here: https://mediatorsbeyondborders.org/mediation-as-organized-communication-member-spotlight-elena-andary/

08/16/2026

AI and Technology for Peace and Recovery

How can artificial intelligencePeacebuildinggy support communities affected by conflict and help create pathways toward peace, recovery, and sustainable development?

Join us for the next session of our Voices for Change series on Wednesday, August 19, featuring two inspiring leaders working at the intersection of technology, peacebuilding, human rights, and inclusive development:
🌐 Kat Fotovat — Co-Founder & President
💡 Medya Ayob — Co-Founder & Director of Growth and Partnerships, Digibankar

Together, we’ll explore how AI, digital tools, and locally driven technology can contribute to peacebuilding and recovery—and how we can ensure that emerging technologies serve communities, strengthen resilience, and help build more inclusive futures.

🗓 Date: August 19, 2026
🕓 Time: 10:00–11:30 AM EDT | 5:00–6:30 PM Damascus | 4:00–5:30 PM CET
🔗 Register here (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VpMfrxH5RcWFpkrjdINnNQ?utm_source=chatgpt.com #/registration)

08/14/2026

Our CEO, Prabha Sankaranarayan, wrapped up the second day of the AI For Developing Countries Forum with a confession: she “came for conversations about chips, computing, and compliance, but instead spent the day sitting in what felt like a beautifully dressed-up mediation training session.”

During the day’s discussion, centered on whether small nations can shape AI’s future, she was struck by the eloquence and humor that both Joy-Marie King and Patrick Vlačič brought to the conversation, as well as the language being used.

Prabha counted “more than 25 terms we regularly use in the fields of mediation and peacebuilding, including Ubuntu, one of MBBI’s core values.”

She had incredible discussions with Anand Tatavarthi, Andrei Dumitrica, Boris Grivič, Marybelle Cherfan, Jean-Simon Venne, and John Hemery OBE PhD, among many others. We’re excited to see where this conversation takes us and to continue our work with Euda as we build toward a new initiative exploring how peacebuilders can help shape the future of AI.

If people working across different fields are already reaching for many of the same principles and practices that peacebuilders have long used, what might be possible if we brought those approaches more intentionally into conversations about AI?

For us, that means creating spaces where the people most affected by AI can help shape the tools and decisions that will affect their lives, while maintaining agency and self-determination.

08/13/2026

Our CEO Prabha Sankaranarayan just wrapped up Day 1 at the AI for Developing Countries Forum, and it was a full one.

She spent the day in rich conversations with people thinking about how AI can be used ethically and to improve lives, as well as people doing incredible work in education, health, security, agriculture, and beyond.

These conversations connect closely with MBBI’s own work exploring how AI can support peacebuilding while keeping people, context, and human judgment at the center.

One thing that stood out was the diversity of people and organizations in the room, representing communities and perspectives from across developing countries.

Prabha says the richness and vibrancy of these conversations is “hope inducing.”

We couldn’t agree more.

More tomorrow. 🌍

08/07/2026

Aside from her long list of professional accomplishments, Jennifer Waterhouse Pietro finds her deepest sense of bond and connection with her daughter and son, whom she gave birth to “later in life than most, but soon enough.” She said: “I had an extraordinary moment in time when I realized that what I aspire to be as long as I am here on Earth is to be as good an ancestor that I can be. I try to think, as I have been taught, seven generations ahead, keeping in front of mind my sense of justice and what is right and true… I want my children to find out for themselves how they want to be in this world, so that when I’m gone they will continue forward, headed towards ‘True North’, wherever they find that to be as they journey through their own beautiful lives.”

Read here: https://mediatorsbeyondborders.org/making-the-world-better-through-value-led-advocacy-and-bridgebuilding-member-spotlight-jennifer-waterhouse-pietro/

08/05/2026

Alex Raphael specializes in disputes around families, divorces, immigration, multi-lingual, labor, and corporate-related conflict because he “knows the dynamic and what they are like.” He finds these disputes interesting and is “immensely fulfilled helping these people going through what he has gone through.” He also gives back to communities of Spanish-speaking immigrants – as he and his family had gone through that transition before – by assisting them become settled in between and in addition to the formal governmental integration programs and by mediating any disputes at the organization Casa Migrante. Raphael’s philosophy is perhaps best expressed as follows: “For what I have done… We have enough in this world to share and be good. We should not have to war, to fight each other, to share goods of the world in a bad way.”

https://mediatorsbeyondborders.org/lessons-from-cars-conflict-and-community-member-spotlight-alex-raphael/

07/31/2026

When asked about the impact of his work, Kit H Hadlund had a lot to share. His work has ranged the gamut across age, race, gender, and setting. All spaces he creates have the same values, that “We are all stitched together in this undeniable fabric we call life. We may look different, feel different, love different, yet we may not be so different after-all.” Hadlund believes that “circles meet participants’ unfulfilled needs of being seen, heard, and valued and give people skills to know themselves better,” He has guided countless individuals through transformative processes, and then gotten to know himself even better. In this way he states “Restorative Processes are a constant dialogue between facilitator and participant. There are no same two ways a process will end”

Read more here: https://mediatorsbeyondborders.org/the-power-of-stories-to-build-peace-member-spotlight-kit-hadlund/

07/22/2026

Our Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Action Group, is holding a panel discussion on July 30th: Advancing the SDGs Through Action: 2026 Impact Forum.

This virtual gathering will highlight the collective impact of our work over the past three years while bringing together leaders from across MBBI Working Groups to explore how mediation, peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and collaborative leadership are advancing the United Nations SDGs.

More than an impact report, this event is an opportunity to:
-Celebrate meaningful progress and measurable outcomes.
-Learn about innovative initiatives advancing the SDGs around the world.
-Hear from leaders representing multiple MBBI Working Groups.
-Exchange ideas, build partnerships, and identify opportunities for future collaboration.
-Strengthen our collective commitment to the 2030 Agenda.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/-YXjkG7cQGaSNSuurNpLWQ #/registration

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