On 30 November 2016, FORCLIME and Working Group Tenure (WGT) organized a meeting in Bogor to discuss existing curricula for mediation of tenurial conflicts. The aim of this meeting was to identify the training material that could be used for an upcoming training of conflict mediators to be conducted by FORCLIME and WGT in Kapuas Hulu district in 2017. The planned mediation training is part of GIZ’s and WGT’s ongoing collaboration on supporting conflict resolution in Kapuas Hulu since 2014.

About 15 people participated in the meeting, including representatives from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry/MoEF (Directorate for Conflict Handling, Tenure and Indigenous Forest, Center for Environment and Forestry Education and Training), from NGOs (WGT, IMN, IICT, CRU) as well as FORCLIME. Several agreements resulted from the discussion, including:

1. The training curriculum will be developed based on already existing mediation curricula of the Supreme Court training institution and the MoEF’s Center for Environment and Forestry Education and Training.
2. There will be flexibility in the training curriculum to integrate locally and thematically specific training content such as customary laws, mediation through customary institutions, or the forestry regulatory framework.
3. Potential trainers will need to be experienced mediators and be associated with an accredited institution.
4. Participants of the mediation training are expected to work as conflict mediators in the future.
5. The training curricula will contain several stages, with basic mediation training being followed by advanced training.

For further information, please contact:
Edy Marbyanto, Strategic Area Manager, Human Capacity Development
Nina-Maria Gaiser, Junior Adviser, Forest Policy