The World Mediation Forum (WFM) is an international non-profit organisation serving mediators from all continents, based on interdisciplinarity.
The mission of the World Mediation Forum is to develop and exchange knowledge, information and skills in in all mediation areas, notably through the regular organization of international congresses for more than twenty years: (2003 in Argentina, 2005 in Switzerland, 2007 in Israel, 2009 in Venezuela, 2012 in Spain, 2017 in Quebec, 2019 in Luxembourg, 2022 in Portugal - virtual).
The XIIth Conference of the World Mediation Forum, which will take place in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, from 4 to 7 November 2024, will focus on the theme of:
"Mediation in the face of contemporary violence: an unrealistic challenge" in an attempt to explore in greater depth but also to go beyond, without however obscuring, the 'classic' debates on the strengths, limits and risks of mediation applied to violence in an interpersonal context. This conference will broaden the debate to the specific nature of violence that takes place in public, collective, organisational, institutional, structural and systemic spaces.