Children are always listening to, watching and modelling their parents’ behaviour–always! You might think that they are absorbed in that television programme or in colouring in their new activity book, but your words and actions are still very much on their radar. It is for this reason that the manner in which parents handle conflict between themselves is so critical.

  Having recommended that, as a first step toward healing the divisions caused by partisan politics, Caribbean political leaders should apologize to each other and to the general population for past conduct on the campaign trail, we now examine forgiveness and reconciliation as the next steps in this process.   Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica, referred to Andrew Holness, the political leader of the

  A: Transformative mediation refers to a particular model of mediation with peculiar techniques. The goal of that model is to “change the quality of conflict interaction” (Bush & Folger, 2005). However, in my view, transformation (meaning simply “a change”) does occur in every mediation, whatever the model employed. There is no way that disputing parties can sit around a table and engage in a discussion

“The weak can never forgive. Forgivenes is the attribute of the strong.” ~Mahatma Ghandi, An Authobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian author.

  A: Of course. There are a number of successful in-prison mediation programmes in countries outside of the Caribbean region. Prisoners are human beings.