"Resolving Neighbor Conflicts Through Dialogue"... Nam-gu Urban Regeneration Center Signs Dispute Mediation Agreement

Establishing a Professional Conflict Management System with the Korea Conflict Mediation and Arbitration Group

The Nam-gu Urban Regeneration and Village Cooperation Center of Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City is establishing a professional conflict management system to resolve disputes and discord between neighbors through dialogue and promote a warm community culture.

The Nam-gu Urban Regeneration Village Cooperation Center, led by CEO Kim Kyungmi, signed a memorandum of understanding on the 23rd with the Korea Conflict Mediation and Arbitration Group, chaired by Park Cheolgyu, to prevent and resolve community conflicts and promote a culture of reconciliation and communication. Courtesy of a reader.

The Nam-gu Urban Regeneration and Village Cooperation Center CEO Kim Kyungmi said on October 25 that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the 23rd with the Korea Conflict Mediation and Arbitration Group, chaired by Park Cheolgyu, to prevent and resolve community conflicts and promote a culture of reconciliation and communication.

The agreement was pursued to proactively ease various everyday conflicts that arise during housing regeneration and village projects, and to create a peaceful village environment where residents can resolve problems autonomously on the basis of mutual understanding and respect.

Under the agreement, the two organizations plan to work closely together to identify joint research projects to prevent and resolve local conflicts; provide professional education, guidance, counseling, and practical consulting based on alternative dispute resolution (ADR); share databases of leading domestic and international conflict management practices and theories; jointly hold regular seminars, discussions, and meetings; and facilitate personnel exchanges among conflict mediation experts.

By combining firsthand experience from villages with the dispute mediation expertise of professional organizations, the center aims to establish an effective, “field-focused conflict mediation model” and build residents’ capacity.

Kim Kyungmi, CEO of the Nam-gu Urban Regeneration and Village Cooperation Center, said, “Proactively preventing conflicts large and small that arise within and beyond villages and wisely resolving them is key to sustainable urban regeneration and community recovery. Through close cooperation with professional organizations, we will firmly establish a Nam-gu-style culture of communication in which residents look out for one another and resolve conflicts through dialogue.”

Park Cheolgyu, chair of the Korea Conflict Mediation and Arbitration Group, responded, “A systematic understanding of conflict and practical mediation skills are essential to achieving community cohesion. We will support practical dispute resolution infrastructure, drawing on our accumulated expertise and field experience.”

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