إشكالية الوساطة الأسرية والاجتماعية: معالم القضايا البنيوية للمجتمع من منظور سوسيوثقافي

Abstract EN

After the changes witnessed by the Arab-Islamic world, especially the Maghreb, on the key structural issues of society, various problems have been raised, mainly associated to the family's reality and the challenges it faces amid the outbreak of many social ailment paterns that has deeply affected families and societies.

These patterns were not limited to one side of society but aimed to destroy the social fabric, dismantle it and distablize it which reflects negatively on both family and society.

There is no doubt that these multiple problems that we see and experience from time to time, in the amount of cases stacked in courts and judicial boards in their various branches, this would raise many questions about family and social disputes cases that have become among the main reasons that cause social bonds to breakdown, and, on this basis, the international community, supported by the UN, took the initiative in its report to seek for an effective psychosocial and optional scientific mediation between the parties to the conflict within the family, given that, the mediation as an alternative reflects the viability of family and social ties, which ensures the sustainibility of the components of the relational fabric of individuals and societies.

Traditional communities acknowledged the mediation procedure through the clan head or those known for their piety and righteousness to strengthen the relational fabric of families as well as society.

In this sense, family and social mediation is very effective in advancing the effects of these socio-economic, political and sociocultural transformations of the Maghreb, at the level of the family represented in the dissolution of marriage and the division between family members, and at the other levels, social and economic violence, which has raised the burden of disintegration and demonized its paths and gone with soft and consensual references to rock bottom, and the fact that family and social mediation is an effective tool in reforming, the culture of adversarial relations and civic behaviour must be established based on the jurisprudence to make amends and the value of socialization must be preserved.

The pillars of this family mediation must be understood technically and legally, and the conditions for social intervention must be guaranteed by professional and institutional regulations, and there must be a wide consensus for harmonious behavioural patterns with all the current societal transformations.