On April 8, 2024, an Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law of the Faculty of Law, Viktoriya Cherevatyuk, together with lawyer, mediator Tetyana Seredzinska, held a binary lecture on the academic discipline "Legal Conflictology" for students of the 2nd year of the specialty 081 "Law".
The lecture session on the topic "Negotiations, mediation and other alternative methods of resolving legal conflicts (disputes)" was conducted in the form of a dialogue between a lecturer and a practicing lawyer, during which Viktoriya Cherevatyuk revealed the theoretical aspects of the concept, types, main stages of negotiations and the mediation procedure, and the analysis differences between theory and practice were carried out by Tetyana Seredzinska. This is the format of the meeting that was predetermined for this topic, as a result of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation into Ukraine, the share of some categories of disputes in our society has increased, which are easier to resolve with the help of such an effective procedure for their settlement as mediation (cross-border family disputes, disputes related to military service, mobilization, etc.).
During the lecture, students had the opportunity to find out from a practicing mediator the advantages of mediation and the difficulties that a mediator most often faces in his activities, to develop joint solutions regarding further "impulse" in the development of mediation - popularization in order to increase the level of understanding of this procedure among the population.
The information received by students in the course of this type of lecture is not only better absorbed, but also stored longer in memory, as it is more emotionally colored and receptive for them. In addition, such a debatable form of communication promotes the development of students' critical thinking, activates cognitive interest and systematizes the acquired theoretical knowledge, teaches them to compare different points of view on solving a certain problem, avoid stereotypes, and frees thinking from dogmatism and one-sidedness of approaches.