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Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBB)\xa0is a not-for-profit corporation which brings together mediators and allied professionals to volunteer worldwide to collaborate on building conflict resolution capacity in underserved areas to make local peace-building more effective and sustainable.\xa0 MBB also advocates to advance the use of mediation.\n MBB works in partnership with local organizations and leaders in each area where it has a project. It generally serves groups located in areas where there are difficulties as a result of war, major civil conflict, or significant natural disaster.\xa0 MBBs core mission is to help these local organizations and leaders build effective and sustainable conflict resolution systems.\xa0\xa0\xa0\nRachel Wohl is the founding Executive Director of the Maryland Judiciary\u2019s Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO). MACRO helps create, strengthen, expand and fund ADR programs in Maryland within and beyond the courts. In 1998, she directed the Maryland ADR Commission\u2019s statewide collaborative process involving approximately 700 people in creating an action plan called \u201cJoin the Resolution\u201d to advance the use of ADR in Maryland. MACRO was created to implement the plan. In 2001, she was chosen by the International Association for Conflict Resolution to receive the Mary Parker Follett Award for Innovation in the Field of Conflict Resolution.\n For more information visit Mediators Beyond Borders