MediaTaur Ltd draws on the media and communication expertise of its diverse staff to offer ground breaking intercultural and multilingual mediation in resolving deeply polarised and entrenched conflicts at all levels of society.

With its innovative Lateral Solutions Mediation (LSM) approach, MediaTaur Ltd designs and delivers projects exploiting the potential of the media in alternative conflict resolution to foster social, economic and political development in transitional and post-conflict countries.

We offer mediation and conflict resolution techniques as part of our services to break through entrenched and deeply polarised positions in families, social groups, political contexts and international conflicts.

Acutely aware how the media has been increasingly weaponised and is dividing nations and societies, we draw on decades of our professional media experience to strip away spin and propaganda which has poisoned human relations on many levels.

Drawing on the old adage of turning poison into medicine, we use the media to empower people rather than to enslave or manipulate them and to enable them to transcend their differences.

We base our strategy on intercultural dialogue conducted through our media training and mediation projects and delivered by our multilingual and culturally diverse specialists.

It simple terms, it can be described as a cultural “translation” service which helps restore a human dimension in communication without the harmful mediation of social networks or algorithmically controlled messaging.

We have delivered many complex and challenging projects for democratisation, governance and human rights programmes in international contexts drawing on the experience in international media, public service broadcasting and overseas development going back three decades.

We combine all this with our mediation skills coached in the LSM system which offers safe and politically neutral environment for dialogue free of prior assumptions or preconceptions. I have led and managed diverse teams in many post-Soviet countries, as well as in the UK, working on assignments in public service broadcasting, journalism education, media skills training, and media reforms. I am an experienced public speaker and moderator, I facilitate events in English, Russian and Polish and am a certified mediator.