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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Mediation gathers leading experts across fields related to peace, justice, human rights, and conflict resolution to explore ways that mediation can be applied to a range of spectrums, including new age settings, relationships, organizations, institutions, communities, environmental conflicts, and intercultural and international conflicts. The text is informed by cogent theory, state-of-the-art research, and best practices to provide the reader with a well-rounded understanding of mediation practice in contemporary times.
Based on four signature themescontexts; skills and competencies; applications; and recommendationsthe handbook provides theoretical, applicable, and practical insight into a variety of key approaches to mediation. Authors consider modern conflict on a local and global scale, emphasizing the importance of identifying effective strategies, foundations, and methods to shape the nature of a mediation mindfully and effectively. With
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"Mediation has burst its banks and spilled over into many fields. It is no longer a meandering stream or a quiet backwater. It has left behind romantic beginnings and entered many new waterways. Read this book and be carried along in the surge."
John Winslade, California State University—San Bernardino, USA
"In The Mediation Handbook, we have a wonderful new resource that provides insight from some of the most innovative thinkers and practitioners in the mediation world. Drawing on the best lessons of the past and a broad vision of the demands of the future, the handbook offers a wide range of practical approaches for deepening and extending the reach of mediation in the twenty-first century."
Bernie Mayer, Creighton University, Canada
Table of Contents Introduction: Revealing the World of Mediation
Alexia Georgakopoulos
Part I: Promoting Dynamic Mediation in the New Age
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- Mediation Career Trends through Time: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges
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Craig Zelizer & Colleen Chiochetti
- Online Technology: The New Frontier for Mediation and Conflict Engagement
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Daniel Rainey & Alan Tidwell
- Story-Based Inter-Group Mediation
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Jessica Senehi
- The Intersection of Improv and Mediation
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Farshad Farahat, Charles Goesel & Alexia Georgakopoulos
- Value-Centered Mediation: The Centrality and Use of Meaning and Values
Mark Kleiman
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- Electronic Mediation
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Daniel Druckman & Sabine T. Koeszegi
- Mediation and Spirituality
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Zena D. Zumeta
Part II: Mediating in Relational Settings
- Transformative Mediation: Illustrating a Relational View of Conflict Intervention
Joseph P. Folger & Dan Simon
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- Narrative Mediation of Family Conflict
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John Winslade
- Victim Offender Mediation: A Humanistic Approach
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Mark Umbreit & Toran Hansen
- Brain Science Behind Mediating Relational Conflicts
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Thomas DiGrazia
- Mindfulness in Mediation as a Relational Practice
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Ran Kuttner
- Mediation and Collaboration with Multiple Disciplines: The Implementation of Systemic Theory in Alternative Dispute Resolution
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Tommie Boyd & Randy Heller
- Dynamic Mediation: Integrating Forgiveness
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John Zivojinovic
Part III: Mediating in Organizational and Institutional Settings
- Mediation Within and Between Organizations
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Christopher Moore
- Organizational Conflict Management Systems: The Emergence of Mediators as Conflict Resolution Professionals
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Alexia Georgakopoulos, Harold Coleman, Jr. & Rebecca Storrow
- Effectiveness of Mediation in the State Agency Grievance Process
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Jessica Katz Jameson, RaJade M. Berry-James, Dennis M. Daley & Jerrell D. Coggburn
- The Prison of Peace Project: A Model for Community Transformation
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Douglas E. Noll
- Mediation and Dispute Resolution Services in Higher Education
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Neil H. Katz
- Mediation as a Tool for Resolvng Workplace Conflicts
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LaVena Wilkin
- Health Care Mediation: Promoting Workplace Collaboration and Patient Safety
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Robin Cooper
- Institutional Mediation and Access to Justice in the State Court System of the United States
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Rebecca Storrow
Part IV: Mediating in Community Settings
- Promoting Peaceful Communities: The Challenges and Benefits of Community-Police Mediation
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Evan Hoffman
- Sustaining Peer Mediation: Remaining Challenges and Opportunities for Peace Educators
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Cheryl Duckworth
- Encouraging Effectiveness through Communication Competence in Community Mediation
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Brian L. Heisterkamp
- The Space of Conflict: Aesthetic Lessons for Mediators
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Dorit Cypis
- From Peers to Parents: Transferring Peer Mediation Skills from School to Family
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Vitus Ozoke
Part V: Mediating within Environmental Settings
- Conflict, Climate Change, and Environmental Catastrophe: How Mediators Can Help Save the Planet
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Kenneth Cloke
- Mediators as Leaders in Climate Change: The Power of Neutrality
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Thomas Fiutak
- The Role of Mediation in Large-Scale Collaborative Initiatives
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Marcelle E. DuPraw
- Mediation at the Nexus of Climate Change and Conflict
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Oliver Leighton Barrett
- The Public Sector as Mediator: The Role of Public Institutions in Environmental Collaborations and Conflict Resolution
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William Hall & Michael Kern
Part VI: Mediating in International and Intercultural Settings
- Thinking Locally, Acting Globally: Mediating Beyond Borders and Integrated Global Capacity Building
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Kenneth Cloke
- International Multiparty Mediation
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Siniša Vuković
- Exploring International Mediation: Past, Present and Beyond
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Lynn Cole
- Culture, Religion, and Politics in International Mediation
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Mohammed Abu-Nimer & Timothy Seidel
- International Mediation: Some Observations and Reflections
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Sean Byrne
- Success and Failure of International Mediation: Examining Causes and Conditions that Impede or Assist Process Success
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Brian Polkinghorn, Anthony Yost & Matt Swiderski
- Mediation and the Challenge of Fostering Reconciliation in Ethno-Political Disputes: The Case of Guyana
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Perry Mars, Frederic Pearson & Marie Olson-Lounsbery
- Mediating in the Shadow of Conflict: United States Special Operations Forces in Unconventional Warfare
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Christian Ramthun, Raffi Mnatzakanian & Patrick James Christian
- Religion and Mediation: Strange Bedfellows or Natural Allies?
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S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana
- Mediating Peacebuilding in Protracted Conflicts: An Interactive Design Framework
Benjamin Broome
Conclusion: The Future of Mediation in a Changing World
George A. Lopez