The Mediation (Edition I) (E-Paper)

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The past few months have been anything but stable and easy. The world around us has changed - in many cases irrevocably - and most of us have learned to live with it. But change has always been omnipresent and no power in the universe has ever been able to stop this process. Or as Friedrich Nietzsche once said: “The past bites the tail of everything that is to come”. In other words, having clarity about the past not only enables us to become aware of what has changed, but also to differentiate between good and bad changes. This in turn helps us to recognize whether we are well (enough) prepared for it. No society or organization is immune to change. But the question is what the individual or the organization can do to make itself “future-proof”. Even the great economist John Maynard Keynes mocked the construction of a space of certainty in the temporal distance as “polite techniques that attempt to deal with the present while neglecting the fact that we know little about the future”. In times of particular uncertainty, i.e. in transformation processes of society as well as in change processes of organizations, this seems to be the right way: to carry out one's own change in a changing world on the secure basis of one's own strengths.

And with this idea as motivation, “The Mediation - Edition I” has now been launched, following the example of the German magazine “Die Mediation”, which has been published since 2012. With this step, the publisher wants to make room for change and thus initiate new international relationships and global cooperation.

Prof. Dr. Gernot Barth beschäftigt sich seit vielen Jahren wissenschaftlich und praktisch mit dem Thema Konflikt. Er arbeitet als Mediator, Mediationstrainer, Supervisor und Verhandlungstrainer. Schwerpunktmäßig begleitet er Verhandlungen und berät Unternehmen bei der Umsetzung von innerbetrieblichen Konfliktmanagementsystemen. Seit 2019 hält er die Professur für Konfliktmanagement und Mediation an der Steinbeis-Hochschule, Fakultät Business & Economics. Er engagiert sich ehrenamtlich u. a. als Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Mediation e. V. und als Geschäftsführender Vizepräsident des Deutschen Forums für Mediation e. V. Er leitet die Akademie für Mediation, Soziales und Recht, das Steinbeis-Beratungszentrum Wirtschaftsmediation sowie die IKOME Dr. Barth GmbH & Co. KG. und ist Herausgeber des Fachmagazins ''Die Mediation''. // Stand der Angaben: Veröffentlichungsjahr der Publikation