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 At the Paris‐based Mediation Training Center (CMFM), an effort is made to assign at least one mediator (if there is a co‐mediation) of the same cultural origin as the party in conflict.

 In the framework of the Association of Criminal Aid (AAPE), a mediation case involved a French mother and an Algerian father. The mother had no contact with her children – who were living in Algeria – for more than a year. The association took care to integrate a mediator of Algerian origin in the mediation team. During the entire mediation, the Algerian party looked only at the Algerian mediator and addressed only him. At the end of the meeting, a first agreement was made, and the French mother was immediately able to talk to her children by phone, before meeting them later.

 At the juvenile courts in Paris and Nanterre, African students residing in France, with members of Étienne Leroy's Cultural Anthropology Laboratory of University Paris I, endorse the role of cultural intermediation between the judge and children of African origin.