Introduction

The last two decades a multitude of organisations, educational courses, new laws, official experiments, research projects and institutions have emerged introducing mediation in the Nordic Countries. It can be described as the modern mediation movement or a grassroots peace movement. Nordic Forum for Mediation and Conflict Management is a meeting place for conflict mediators from different fields of work. We use to divide the scene into eight different fields of conflict mediation. Here follows a short introduction to the state of affairs in Norway with a few words on Finland and ...