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In August, the vivo counselling team in Gulu, Uganda participated in a two-day training course facilitated by Wibke Angelike, a trainer and mediator of non-violent conflict resolution working for the German Civil Peace Service in cooperation with the Justice and Peace Department of the Gulu Archdiocese.
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The training reviewed different ways of communicating, both in theory and through various exercises suggested by the trainer. The team also analysed the different moments of intervention during a conflict as mediators, as well as the different types of negotiation (e.g., accommodation, compromise, collaboration, etc.).
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They were able to apply what they had learned through concrete case studies proposed by the trainer. As well as being educational, it also enabled the team to have a good time together and to leave even more united than before.