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The 4th Conference of the European Mediation Network Initiative (EMNI) entitled Mediation - Help Paving the Way out of Crisis took place in the City Hotel, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, from 18 to 20 April. The Conference was co-sponsored by the ROMED Programme. Calin Rus, ROMED Pedagogical Coordinator, presented the highlights and results of the ROMED Programme to date, as well as the future prospects and activities for ROMED in the period 2013-2014. More information is available here. 

" Developments in mediation - current challenges and the role of ROMED"

The training programme for Roma mediators launched in 2011 has certain features which make it unique in terms of the fundamental effects it produces, both in Europe at large and in the member states.

This work sets out to contextualise the initiatives taken, highlight their utility and evaluate them.  It is intended to provide guidance for the programme leaders, enable active participants – trainers, mediators, employers and others – to see their efforts as part of an overall scheme, help policy-makers to take the right decisions and describe and explain the operation to a broader readership.

On the occasion of International Roma Day, in a podcast issued through Human Rights Europe, Jeroen Schokkenbroek, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe for Roma Issues, explains his strategic objectives - meaningful cooperation between member states, matched by capacity-building and the empowerment of Roma communities - and analyses the rise and persistence of anti-Roma prejudice and the work of the Council of Europe to challenge this "very nasty situation".