What are the synergies that you experience between human rights activists and ADR practitioners in your work? If you haven't experience any synergies between HR and ADR yet, what synergies could be created? How?
My experience is that human rights activists and ADR practitioners create unstable synergies. By that I mean that a human rights activist is more direct and confronting in the dialog than ADR practitioners. When they are in the same room/meeting they will not "speak the same language” and will therefore create an intense atmosphere. This kind of atmosphere is not constructive for ADR practitioners but in many ways "ideal” for the human rights activist. An ADR activist wants to find "solutions” and a human rights practitioner wants to condemn.
It doesn't have to be this way. The ADR practitioner and the human rights activist can accept each other's qualifications and skills and take advantages of the differences. For example an ADR practitioner plays the "understanding part” as the mediator while the human rights activist is the confronting part talking about the parties responsibilities for the human rights violations. In that way they will create a dynamic synergy where the parties can be confronted with the reality of the abuses and in the same time be presented with different solutions.