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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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Collaborative for Conflict Mgmt. in Mental Health
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"[P]romoting the use of conflict management techniques in the mental health and social service systems through training, technical assistance, consultation, information dissemination and evaluation services"

Lester Bowles Pearson
Lester Bowles Pearson

President of the 7th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, and 1957 Nobel Peace Laureate