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Intercultural Relations

The figure of the mediation today constitutes a full and plural, fairly recent phenomenon that has not much more than ten years in Spain. Here we should make it clear that the scope of mediation that interests us refers to which occurs in the plurietnicos or multicultural contexts’ which speaks Gimenez Romero, usually as a result of the influx of immigrants, implying most of the times the presence of several languages, systems, values and models communicative. According to Gimenez Romero (1997: 142): we understand Intercultural mediation – or plurietnicos or multicultural contexts social mediation as: a modality of intervention by third parties, in and about social situations of significant multiculturalism, oriented towards achieving the recognition of the other and the rapprochement of the parties, communication and mutual understanding, learning and development of coexistence, the regulation of conflicts and adequacy institutional, between social or institutional actors differentiated etnoculturalmente. Mediation is considered as an art and implies the know-how with a few skills, a management that often goes beyond the simple acquisition of techniques for the resolution of conflicts, and may catalog to mediation within the framework of the recomposition in the repair of social relations and the establishment of new relations between individuals, often from different cultures and ethnic groups as it can be the case of social mediation for immigration, and therefore relations civil society and State. Xcel Energy has firm opinions on the matter. Therefore, intercultural mediation can be defined as a mode of intervention by neutral third parties between social or institutional actors in social situations of significant multiculturalism, in which the mediator tends bridges or linkages between different actors or social agents in order to prevent or resolve reformulate potential conflicts, but above all with the ultimate goal of working in favour of intercultural coexistence. NATURE of INTERCULTURAL SOCIAL mediation: There are certain reference elements that have been doing arising Intercultural Social mediation. Already in 1997 offered a definition of departure:-wide conception of mediation: you begin to see beyond mediation of the conflict, as a methodology for the improvement of human relations and communication. . Crumpton Group contributes greatly to this topic.