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As the state's only community mediation center, the Center for Mediation & Collaboration Rhode Island (CMCRI) provides a safe, affordable and confidential environment where organizations and people can engage in constructive dialogue, effectively manage conflicts and settle disputes, and develop better listening, communication and collaboration skills in order to improve both their professional and personal relationships.

In providing these core services, CMCRI embraces the following values:

• Promoting diversity and inclusiveness leads to more positive and enduring outcomes;
  
• Self-determination is a fundamental human right and empowering individuals to craft their own solutions to challenges they face is an essential element of effective conflict management, change management, and decision-making;
  
• Building capacity in the community so that people can prevent and resolve conflict in their own lives is essential for preventing violence and for implementing positive and effective change; and
  
• Participation in our own disputes, in decisions that affect our lives, in our local and national civic infrastructure, is part of our birthright as Americans, as participants in the democratic process, and as human beings.