An Anthropologist's Approach to Mediation

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Title	An Anthropologist's Approach to Mediation
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Description	This paper explores mediation within a wider anthropological and cross-cultural framework. The approach to mediation that has developed in North America has distinctive ideas about the structure and process of mediation, the qualifications and role of the mediator, the relationship of the mediator to the parties, and the relationship between the parties. Debates about many of these issues abound within the field of North American mediation, raising ethical issues about the practice of mediation and professional issues about the boundaries of mediation as a field. These debates take place within the context of a larger effort to increase access to mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution within a North American system of conflict resolution dominated by adjudicative and adversarial processes. An examination of mediation as it is perceived and practiced in other national and cultural settings, and in cross-cultural and international settings, may place these and other issues within a broader comparative framework and allow us to rethink some of our assumptions about what makes mediation work in differing cultural contexts.
Authors / Editors	Golbert, Rebecca
Date Published	2009
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