Editorial

Abstract

This is the first issue of the “new look” Journal of Mediation and Applied Conflict Analysis. The logo designed by Patrick Kelleher represents an ancient stone (the stone of divisions), a twenty-foot-tall, 30 ton fissured and fragmenting limestone boulder at Uisneach, in County Westmeath. While there are four provinces in Ireland today, a fifth province or kingdom existed at Uisneach in ancient Ireland. This area was also regarded as Ireland’s sacred center and the stone was understood to be a gateway to another world. Members of the Irish four provinces traditionally came to this place to resolve their differences and unite their divisions, which makes our logo a creative and dynamic representation of the journal’s mediation and conflict intervention objective.