Mediation

Abstract

Theory - purposes and goals of mediation: mediation - its forms and functions, Lon L. Fuller whose dispute is it anyway? - a philosophical and democratic defense of settlement (in some cases), Carrie Menkel-Meadow Changing people, not just situations - a transformative view of conflict and mediation, Robert A. Barusch and Joseph P. Folger Post-settlement settlements, Howard Raiffa. Definitions, origins, ideologies and controversies: the many ways of mediations - the transformation of traditions, ideologies, paradigms and practices, Carrie Menkel-Meadow understanding mediators orientations, strategies and techniques - a grid for the perplexed, Leonard L. Riskin mediator settlement strategies, Susan S. Silbey and Sally E. Merry the unspoken resistance to alternative dispute resolution, Marguerite Millhauser the mediation alterntive - process dangers for women, Trina Grillo controlling processes in the practice of law - hierarchy and pacification in the movement to re-form dispute ideology. Practice and policy issues: selective facilitation - some preliminary observations on a strategy used by divorce mediators, David Greatbatch and Robert Dingwall neutrality - a guide for the organizational ombudsperson, Howard Gadlin and Elizabeth Walsh Pino dealing with power imbalances in the mediation of interpersonal disputes, Albie M. Davies and Richard M. Salem the value of decision analysis in mediation practice, Marjorie Corman Aaron the top ten reasons why mediator should not evaluate, Lela P. Love small claims mediation in Maine - an empirical assessment, Craig A. McEwen and Richard J. Maiman ethics in alternative dispute resolution - new issues, no answers from the adversary conception of lawyers responsiblities, Carrie Menkel-Meadow. Applications: mediation in family disputes, Simon Roberts ideological prouction - the making of community mediation, Christine B. Harrington and Sally Engle Merry dispute resolution in China after Deng Xiaoping, Stanley B. Lubman Mao and Mediation revisited experiences of mediation (in the central London county courts) from mediation in action - resolving court disputes without trial, Hazel Genn restoring justice, David Lerman. The future hope and promise of mediation: fitting the forum to the fuss - a user-friendly guide to selecting an ADR procedure, Frank E.A. Sander and Stephen B. Goldberg conflict resolution, cultural differences and the culture of racism, Howard Gadlin the trouble with the adversary sysytem in a postmodern multicultural world, Carrie Menkel-Meadow.