Mediation – Foundations

Mediation - Foundations

The organization

NAFAAS - is an acronym for the National Association of Fine and Applied Arts Students . It is a body that oversees the welfare of its members - the fine and applied arts students . It presents intricate issues as violation of student 's right to the department , organize social activities and exhibitions , and engage in educational tours and visits It is also vested with the responsibility of raising and nurturing capable leaders to promote the art ' culture . The body is organized and governed by the following elected officers : The

President , the Vice-President , Secretary General , Financial Secretary , the Treasurer Director of Socials , Director of Sports and the Curator

The members are all duly matriculated students of the University . They pay an annual registration fee to the body and attend general meetings when they are summoned

The conflict

A misunderstanding ensured when it was time to utilize some money from the body 's account . The financial secretary has issued about a thousand receipts and handed over five hundred payments to the treasurer . The treasurer recorded the given amount and the receipts . Unknown to the treasurer , the financial secretary went to change the figures to reflect a collection of a thousand payment and receipt . The president was to organize a welcome party for the association 's freshers only to discover that the money reflecting in the account differ greatly from the one recorded . An executive meeting was immediately summoned and the figures were laid based on the records . After much deliberation , the financial secretary and the treasurer were asked to account and pay for the loss otherwise they be sanctioned with expulsion

For precisely two weeks , they could not see eye-to-eye . This called for another meeting

Third party

The curator , supported by the two-third majority of the house , moved the motion for a meeting and a meeting day was fixed . The agenda of course was to discuss and if possible to resolve the differences between the two executive members . The session lasted for about two hours with heated debate and arguments . The meeting was adjourned without a reasonable progress on how best to resolve the conflict . A third party was agreed upon unanimously - the Patron of the association . He was actually the best ' to resolve the conflict as the parties involved [treasurer , financial secretary] respects him so much , besides he is the first patron of the association

The mediation

At a pre-determined date and time , the mediator [the patron] and the two parties involved in the conflict met at the Association 's secretariat Then and there , the patron listened patiently as they both recount their role in the incident . The mediator , being a trained one observed the starts and stops , the inconsistency of the financial secretary tactfully asked why are the figures in correcting fluid ' the financial secretary by surprise responded no 'and later I don 't know . This question is supposed to have been directed to the treasurer being that he handles the recorded amount

The subsequent questions , responses and gestures...