With the support from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP Georgia) Georgia and UK Aid, the Great Britain government, lawyers and administrative personnel from the Legal Aid Service got training in conflict management and mediation techniques on July 16–20 and July 25–26 of this year.
The proposed training course serves to establish internal organizational mechanisms for handling disagreements in the public sector. It is accredited by the Mediators Association of Georgia, and graduates are eligible to participate in simulation sessions of practical professional skills and mediators competencies, organized by the Mediators Association, in order to verify /evaluate practical skills and obtain mediator’s status.
Sofio Chachava and Sofio Tkemaladze, the mediators and field experts, led the training.