Mediação intercultural e conflitos culturais no Brasil

Abstract

Mediation is an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) that is becoming increasingly important in the world, but doesn’t have the right attention in Brazil. The present work talks about the reason why this thematic is not developed in Brazil, questioning the existence of cultural conflicts in this country. The worry about the community conflicts that appeared during the Raízes de Cidadania’s project (internship at Fundação da Criança e da Família Cidadã- human right organization – Fortaleza-CE) aroused the interest of considering the cultural element and the objective of an intercultural society. There are three fundamental points in this research. First, mediation is study in a wide approach, analyzing its history, questioning the way that people see it, as well as its basics principles and the conceptions of conflict adopted. Second, the specificity of the intercultural mediation, the peculiarities of the mediator in the conflicts involving different cultures and the way that intercultural mediation is been study in another countries, such as Canada, Belgium and Spain, where its use is analyzed and criticized. Finally, the brazilian cultural context is studied, where, since colonization, black, white and indian races coexists. Refugees, labor conflicts with latins immigrants, the indian exploration in Brazil are also analyzed, as well as the presence of the cultural element in contexts where it is, many times, disregarded.