Intercultural Mediation as a Competence of Specialists in Foreign Languages and Culture
The article proves the necessity and practicability of training specialists in the field offoreign languages and culture so that they could settle the disputes between the subjects of international cooperation. Intercultural cooperation as a type of joint mutually dependent activity is accompanied by immanent conflict situations. Objective nature of intercultural conflicts objectifies inconsistencies of real cultural differences and joint activities. The specialist, dealing with controversial intercultural interpersonal environment, should be ready to transform professionally the objective proneness to conflict from risks to potential of development. Competence, which is solving intercultural conflicts, includes activities in preventing and settling subject disputes of subjects of intercultural environment. Intercultural mediation integrates necessary professional skills of a mediator, special professional skills offinding the key to understanding and providing collective responsibility for results and products ofjoint activities ofparticipants of international cooperation