As an avid reader of my weblog, you are no doubt aware, that one of the services I offer my customers is mediation in software conflicts. Together with my colleague mediators, I recently visited the first & second chambers of the Dutch houses of parliament, the so-called: “Eerste Kamer” and “Tweede Kamer”. We held a mediation event in the meeting room of the “Eerste Kamer” and discussed our plans for the coming year.On our tour of the buildings, we were shown the ‘bolt hole’ passage that our Prime Minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, takes to cross over to the second chamber, thus avoiding awkward questions from journalists!
If only politicians had realized that there were so many mediators gathered under one roof, capable of solving social conflict and confrontation, they would have immediately returned from their holidays, with the firm resolve to mediate for a satisfactory solution to the conflict, concerning the imminent Dutch military mission to Afghanistan!
