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The Middle Voice
"Whether you want to be a better professional mediator, or more successful in managing conflict in your workplace, family, classroom, community, service organization or political group, this book is for you. Richly illustrated with examples, The Middle Voice describes the role of a mediator and the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct a successful process."--BOOK JACKET.
Mediation Theory and Practice
In this newly updated, enriched edition, the authors have retained the primary content of their previous text while making significant changes to the manner in which they present and organize the materials. The result is a timely, current publication that has been effectively streamlined without any sacrifice in important substance. The new edition provides: Important updates to relevant mediation case law; A rich description of the social and legal strands that shaped the development of contemporary dispute resolution theory and practice; Comprehensive new study materials and discussion questions examining ethical issues for mediators; State-of-the-art analyses of the advocate's role in mediation; and Expanded treatment of how the mediation process is used to deal with major societal problems. The revised teacher's manual (available in Fall 2013) significantly expands the number of simulation exercises that reflect these broad-based themes. This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.
The Middle Voice
Updated and expanded version of the author's Taking charge/managing conflict, c1987.
Discussions in Dispute Resolution
Negotiation -- Mediation -- Arbitration -- Dispute resolution public policy.
Mediation and Justice
This book asks why justice is important to both individuals and to society as a whole. A number of justice questions are raised to evaluate whether mediation can deliver social, distributive, procedural, or substantive justice and fairness. Focussing on a scrutiny of mediation in the context of justice, the book covers social justice and justice issues posed by confidentiality, bias, lack of fairness, and Online Dispute Resolution. Discussing whether mediation can truly deliver justice to all, this book identifies areas where this fails and provides solutions and suggestions for improvement.. The dangers of private justice, bias, mandatory mediation, and the side lining of the importance of fairness in the resolution of disputes are all considered. In contrast, the positive aspects of mediation are added to the balance. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of conflict resolution, law, and social science. Readers will also be found among mediators and people interested in justice and the civil justice system.
A Prescription for Dignity
Examining the treatment of persons with mental disabilities in the criminal justice system, this book offers new perspectives that are crucial to an understanding of the ways in which society projects onto criminal defendants prejudices and attitudes about responsibility, free will, autonomy, choice, public safety, and the meaning and purpose of punishment, all with a focus on ways to enhance dignity in the criminal trial process. It is a detailed exploration of issues of adequacy of counsel; the impact of international human rights law, following the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD); the role of mental health courts; and the inf...
Mediation Ethics
Traditional ideas of mediator neutrality and impartiality have come under increasing attack in recent decades. There is, however, a lack of consensus on what should replace them. Mediation Ethics offers a response to this question, developing a new theory of mediation that emphasises its nature as a relational process.
Beyond the Courtroom
Beyond the Courtroom provides a compilation of articles and chapters by a dispute resolution scholar who has made remarkable contributions over his thirty-year career. Professor Abramson has focused his research and practice on parties trying to resolve their own disputes. This book includes publications that have contributed to launching the then new field of mediation representation with special attention on how attorneys, as gate keepers to mediation, can effectively represent clients. The book also includes his original publications that have contributed to the emerging field of intercultural and international mediation and the already robust and mature field of negotiations.
