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The varied focus of the professional practices reflected in this section reveal marked conceptual differences as to just what, in the context of disputes, is meant by “community.” Caseloads vary on a scale from small claims, landlord-tenant and similar local, two-party mediation to long-term, deep-seated and community-wide conflicts which can destroy, for many people at a time, the concept that they live in a community.

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Former Chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust, and 1986 Nobel Peace Laureate