Who can call a caucus? Is caucus a private meeting?

A caucus is a meeting or grouping of supporters or members of a specific political party or movement. The exact definition varies between different countries and political cultures.

Who can call a caucus?

Internal events are of three types: (1) problems in interpersonal relationships between parties or within a team, (2) problems in the negotiation process, and (3) problems related to the substantive or content issues under discussion. Either the parties or the mediator can call for a caucus at any time.

Is the caucus a private meeting?

A technique that is often useful in breaking deadlocks during mediation is the caucus: a confidential, private meeting held by the mediator with individual parties or a brief private meeting of a negotiation team conducted during bargaining. In the caucus, the parties are physically separated.

Caucuses are meetings that mediators hold separately with each side of a dispute. They can be called by the mediator or by one of the parties to work out problems that occur during the mediation process. Sometimes there are external factors that create changes or new tensions during the mediation.