{"id":14906,"date":"2012-12-17T11:21:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T09:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=14906"},"modified":"2012-12-16T09:21:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T07:21:59","slug":"medcom-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/12\/17\/medcom-101\/","title":{"rendered":"MedCom 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s face it: unless you are active on the European level, there is a big chance that you don\u2019t really know what our different bodies are doing, what they are supposed to do and why they were created in the first place. The AEGEEan magazine is here to help and set the story straight. Up first \u2013 Mediation Commission.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If you check the current Member\u2019s Manual, you will notice that there is no such body as the Mediation Commission. In its place, stands the Members Commission. \u00a0The reason for such a name change was the proposal made by the Members Commission Agora Skopje (2011) \u2013 Agora Enschede (2012). According to it, the name was tweaked together with its functions. Realizing that the MemCom was being activated already after the problem appeared, it was decided to make an emphasis on mediation, so that problems can be solved earlier and conflicts can be avoided. But let\u2019s not get carried away and start from the beginning.<\/p>\n

We work in a multicultural organization full of people with different values and ideas. Sometimes, conflicts appear. At times, they can be very proactive and lead to creation of a completely new and successful concept, however, at other times, conflicts end up being destructive. This is where the MedCom comes in.<\/p>\n

According to the CIA, the MedCom is there for three things.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>1. It is responsible for making sure that the Data Privacy Statement of the CIA is respected. Here they act as an ombudsman.<\/p>\n

2. They can be officially activated by two bodies (NetCom, Audit Commission, JC, CD) or 10 antennas. This action results in a dispute, or \u201cMedCom Case,\u201d and is something very formal and serious. After a thorough investigation, they are allowed to take sanctions up to the point of deleting an antenna. However, their verdict can be reversed by the next Agora.<\/p>\n

3. The last point comes from the new name \u2013 Mediation. This is a step taken in order to prevent a \u201cMedCom case.\u201d Since Agora Enschede 2012, the MedCom can now be addressed by any person or body of the network. This new function allows any member to turn to them for help\/mediation in a conflict. Nevertheless, it is strongly urged that the member first turns to their NetCom as this is what they are there to do. But we will \u00a0cover the NetCom a bit later.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Agora Budapest elected a new Mediation Commission. Let\u2019s give a warm welcome to our new mediators \u2013 Fabian Br\u00fcggemann (President, AEGEE-D\u00fcsseldorf), Hara Kogkou (AEGEE-Peiraias), Ermanno Napolitano (AEGEE-Catania), Maurits Korse (AEGEE-Enschede), Atanas Nachkov (JC) and Anna Gots (CD observer).<\/p>\n

For more information about this AEGEE body, feel free to visit their page \u2013 www.commissions.aegee.org\/medcom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They can also be contacted directly at medcom@aegee.org.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the photos to Gunnar Erth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Written by Olga Volovyk, AEGEE-Kyiv<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s face it: unless you are active on the European level, there is a big chance that you don\u2019t really know what our different bodies are doing, what they are supposed to do and why they were created in the first place. The AEGEEan magazine is here to help and set the story straight. Up first \u2013 Mediation Commission. If… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":14908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[583,444,405,636,844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14906"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14916,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions\/14916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}