Bernhard Schieber

Waseet

Knowledge

A waseet is an intermediary who uses relationships and recognized standing to connect people with others or with an institution. The role can support mediation or access, while requiring examination of whose interests are served and which decision rules are affected.

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Key concept

Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.

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Intervention Methods & Practices

Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.

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