This course is offered to students interested in acquiring the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary to mediate community and campus disputes. In the first segment of the course, students will be introduced to the guiding principles of mediation and restorative conferencing. A review of the theories of conflict, models of mediation, and the benefits and challenges of each. The role of identity, culture, ethics and impasse in mediation will all be examined and incorporated into simulations and case studies. In the second segment, students will be assigned to observe, mediate, and facilitate cases referred to the Scheinman Institute from Cornell’s Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards (OSCCS), the Tompkins Country Community Dispute Resolution Center, the Ithaca City Small Claims Court, and the Montana Mediation program.