1st Edition
The Mediation Handbook Research, theory, and practice
The 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 themes—contexts; skills and competencies; applications; and recommendations—the 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 a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, the text complements the development of the reader’s competencies and understanding of mediation in order to contribute to the advancement of the mediation field.
With a conversational tone that will welcome readers, this comprehensive book is essential reading for students and professionals wanting to learn a wide range of potential interventions for conflict.
Introduction: Revealing the World of Mediation
Alexia Georgakopoulos
Part I: Promoting Dynamic Mediation in the New Age
- Mediation Career Trends through Time: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges
- Online Technology: The New Frontier for Mediation and Conflict Engagement
- Story-Based Inter-Group Mediation
- The Intersection of Improv and Mediation
- Value-Centered Mediation: The Centrality and Use of Meaning and Values
Mark Kleiman - Electronic Mediation
- Mediation and Spirituality
- Transformative Mediation: Illustrating a Relational View of Conflict Intervention
Joseph P. Folger & Dan Simon - Narrative Mediation of Family Conflict
- Victim-Offender Mediation: A Humanistic Approach
- Brain Science Behind Mediating Relational Conflicts
- Mindfulness in Mediation as a Relational Practice
- Mediation and Collaboration with Multiple Disciplines: The Implementation of Systemic Theory in Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Dynamic Mediation: Integrating Forgiveness
- Mediation Within and Between Organizations
- Organizational Conflict Management Systems: The Emergence of Mediators as Conflict Resolution Professionals
- Effectiveness of Mediation in the State Agency Grievance Process
- Mediation and Dispute Resolution Services in Higher Education
- Mediation as a Tool for Resolvng Workplace Conflicts
- Health Care Mediation: Promoting Workplace Collaboration and Patient Safety
- Institutional Mediation and Access to Justice in the State Court System of the United States
- Promoting Peaceful Communities: The Challenges and Benefits of Community-Police Mediation
- The Prison of Peace Project: A Model for Community Transformation
- Sustaining Peer Mediation: Remaining Challenges and Opportunities for Peace Educators
- Encouraging Effectiveness through Communication Competence in Community Mediation
- The Space of Conflict: Aesthetic Lessons for Mediators
- From Peers to Parents: Transferring Peer Mediation Skills from School to Family
- Conflict, Climate Change, and Environmental Catastrophe: How Mediators Can Help Save the Planet
- Mediators as Leaders in Climate Change: The Power of Neutrality
- The Role of Mediation in Large-Scale Collaborative Initiatives
- Mediation at the Nexus of Climate Change and Conflict
- The Public Sector as Mediator: The Role of Public Institutions in Environmental Collaborations and Conflict Resolution
- Thinking Locally, Acting Globally: Mediating Beyond Borders and Integrated Global Capacity Building
- International Multiparty Mediation
- Exploring International Mediation: Past, Present and Beyond
- Culture, Religion, and Politics in International Mediation
- International Mediation: Some Observations and Reflections
- Success and Failure of International Mediation: Examining Causes and Conditions that Impede or Assist Process Success
- Mediation and the Challenge of Fostering Reconciliation in Ethno-Political Disputes: The Case of Guyana
- Mediating in the Shadow of Conflict: United States Special Operations Forces in Unconventional Warfare
- Religion and Mediation: Strange Bedfellows or Natural Allies?
- Mediating Peacebuilding in Protracted Conflicts: An Interactive Design Framework
Craig Zelizer & Colleen Chiochetti
Daniel Rainey & Alan Tidwell
Jessica Senehi
Farshad Farahat, Charles Goesel & Alexia Georgakopoulos
Daniel Druckman & Sabine T. Koeszegi
Zena D. Zumeta
Part II: Mediating in Relational Settings
John Winslade
Mark Umbreit & Toran Hansen
Thomas DiGrazia
Ran Kuttner
Tommie Boyd & Randy Heller
John Zivojinovic
Part III: Mediating in Organizational and Institutional Settings
Christopher Moore
Alexia Georgakopoulos, Harold Coleman, Jr. & Rebecca Storrow
Jessica Katz Jameson, RaJade M. Berry-James, Dennis M. Daley & Jerrell D. Coggburn
Neil H. Katz
LaVena Wilkin
Robin Cooper
Rebecca Storrow
Part IV: Mediating in Community Settings
Evan Hoffman
Douglas E. Noll
Cheryl Duckworth
Brian L. Heisterkamp
Dorit Cypis
Vitus Ozoke
Part V: Mediating within Environmental Settings
Kenneth Cloke
Thomas Fiutak
Marcelle E. DuPraw
Oliver Leighton Barrett
William Hall & Michael Kern
Part VI: Mediating in International and Intercultural Settings
Kenneth Cloke
Siniša Vuković
Lynn Cole
Mohammed Abu-Nimer & Timothy Seidel
Sean Byrne
Brian Polkinghorn, Anthony Yost & Matt Swiderski
Perry Mars, Frederic Pearson & Marie Olson-Lounsbery
Christian Ramthun, Raffi Mnatzakanian & Patrick James Christian
S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana
Benjamin Broome
Conclusion: The Future of Mediation in a Changing World
George A. Lopez
Biography
Alexia Georgakopoulos is a Professor in the Department of Conflict Studies at Nova Southeastern University, USA. She is the Director of the Institute of Conflict Resolution and Communication, a mediation and conflict resolution training and consulting firm specializing in delivering educational training and mediation certification to professionals. A world-class scholar and practitioner in mediation with numerous articles, book chapters, and speaking engagements, she was featured on NBC’s Today Show to discuss peace in the diverse world.
"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
