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Diffusion of a campus innovation: Integration of a new student dispute resolution center into the University culture
Authors: Jameson Jessica Katz 
Published: July 2007

AbstractCampus mediation programs serve a variety of disputes while educating students in alternative dispute resolution. A major challenge to these programs is that of integration into the existing campus structure. This article draws on Everett Rogers's (1983, 1995) theory of the diffusion of innovations to discuss a strategic plan for the integration of a dispute resolution program into the culture of a college campus. Research was based on a program introduced at Temple University using a peer mediation model of conflict management. Guidelines are presented to assist others interested in integrating a student dispute resolution center into their own campus culture.
Satisfaction with custody mediation: Results from the York County custody mediation program
Authors: Jones Tricia S. , Bodtker Andrea 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article reports a portion of an evaluation of the York County Custody Mediation program funded by the State Justice Institute. Data from 169 mediated cases were collected immediately following mediation, and follow‐up data from 47 percent of those cases were obtained six to nine months following mediation. Disputants had high rates of short‐term satisfaction with mediation process and outcomes. Satisfaction was related to whether agreements had been achieved, whether PFAs had been filed, whether caucuses were used, and whether disputants were represented by attorneys. Long‐term and short‐term satisfaction were strongly correlated. Mediators were less satisfied with mediation process than disputants.
Conflict assessment and the cape cod national seashore
Authors: Caddick Jennifer , Jermansen Kari , Mastrototaro Jill , Senecah Susan 
Published: July 2007

AbstractOver the past several decades, the Cape Cod National Seashore has experienced a clash between interests regarding off‐road vehicle use and the protectioòn of piping plover habitat. This conflict came to a head in September 1995 when parties interested in resolving the dispute committed to a negotiated rule‐making process. Prior to the inception of the process, professional mediators conducted two conflict assessments with potential stakeholders in the rule‐making process, one in 1993 and a second in 1995. Because conflict assessment is not always attempted by mediators prior to negotiated rule making or mediation in general (Susskind, 1998), this article attempts to acknowledge the value of such an engagement to stakeholders. Here, interviews serve as the primary method by which information was collected from some of the organizations involved in the rule making. Overall research results indicate stakeholder support for the use of conflict assessment in effectively preparing them for the negotiated rule‐making process.
Conflict education in a special needs population
Authors: Jones Tricia S. , Bodtker Andrea M. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article reports on a two‐part pilot project in which a conflict education program and a peer mediation program were implemented in a special needs population to reduce students' aggressive behaviors and improve the school's climate. The participating school was an approved private school to which students (ages five through twenty‐one) with learning disability (LD), emotional disability (ED), or attention deficit‐hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were referred from public education institutions unequipped to provide necessary services. The project is discussed in terms of needs assessment, program development and implementation, and insights for training with a special needs population. Research was conducted to ascertain the impact of conflict education training on incidents of aggressive behavior and school climate. Results indicate a significant reduction in the most serious behavioral incidents during the project period, as well as a slight increase in moderately serious incidents and a sharp increase in nonserious incidents. A decrease in the frequency of fights among younger students and a significant improvement in school climate were also apparent.
Responding to a schoolwide conflict resolution‐peer mediation program: Case study of a middle school faculty
Authors: Matloff Gary , Smith Stephen W. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractConflict resolution (CR) and peer mediation (PM) programs are flourishing as alternatives to adult‐mediated disciplinary models in many school settings. This study found that the degree of faculty involvement influenced the school‐wide implementation of the CR‐PM program described here. Faculty interviews reveal a progression of teacher concerns as teachers become involved in change. Results suggest that understanding a faculty's perspective within the context of a CR‐PM program can lead to constructive problem solving when implementing a schoolwide program that is designed to change the way school professionals respond to discipline problems.
Understanding public disputes resolution in community mediation
Authors: Sachs Andrew M. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractCommunity mediation is advancing the use of consensus processes through effective interventions in a wide range of public issues. Although important distinctions between community‐based and other public disputes resolution providers might exist, a high degree of similarity in the kinds of cases that both handle is demonstrated here by associating community‐based case reports with twelve out of sixteen categories of interventions conducted by the public disputes resolution field. Mediation scholars should include community‐based experiences when evaluating public disputes resolution for a thorough analysis of the whole field and to improve understanding of community‐based public disputes resolution.
Attorneys' negotiation strategies in mediation: Business as usual?
Authors: Gordon Elizabeth Ellen 
Published: July 2007

AbstractNegotiation, the standard settlement process for lawsuits, is increasingly being conducted by attorneys in a mediated setting. This article explores the effect of negotiating in mediation on attorneys' negotiation strategies. Attorneys in North Carolina's civil mediation program were surveyed on their attitudes toward negotiation in mediated and nonmediated contexts. Results indicate that attorneys are somewhat more willing to embrace the principles of non‐competitive negotiation in mediation than in routine settlement processes. Two implications are that mediation is unlikely to revolutionize the way attorneys negotiate and that mediation can support expanded use of less competitive negotiation without jeopardizing the adversary system.
Current issues facing the practice of environmental mediation
Authors: Senecah Susan L. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article focuses on the alternative dispute resolution process of mediation, especially as applied to environmental disputes. Many of the critical dilemmas facing environmental mediators hinge on the tension between party self‐determination and informed decision making, and mediator neutrality. In the interest of advancing greater understanding and discussion of the practice of environmental mediation, this article presents a brief background to environmental mediation, its distinguishing characteristics, and some of the most commonly recurring dilemmas, many with ethical implications.
Conflict education and special‐needs students, part two: Improving conflict competence and emotional competence
Authors: Bodtker Andrea 
Published: July 2007

AbstractAlthough special‐needs students are typified by emotional and behavioral disabilities that are critical to their conflict orientation and conflict behavior, very little work has been done to bring conflict education programs to them; even less has been done to explore the efficacy of these interventions. This article reports on the impact of conflict education training provided to thirteen upper school classes of a special‐needs population in a private school setting. Training was delivered in sessions of one hour once a week for a three‐month period. It was hypothesized that conflict education would increase students' perspective taking and emotional management and decrease their hostile attribution and aggression. Self‐report, other‐report, and behavioral data were obtained to assess impact. Results indicated that there was no impact on perspective taking. Impact for emotional management was in the predicted direction for the self‐report data, but in the opposite direction for the other‐report data from teacher ratings. There was strong support for the hypothesis that conflict education would reduce hostile attribution and partial support for the expectation that it would reduce aggressiveness. Impacts on aggressive behavior were influenced by the cognitive ability of the student.
Evaluating environmental mediation: Results from a waste management conflict in germany
Authors: Holzinger Katharina 
Published: July 2007

AbstractLittle empirically based research has been carried out with the aim of evaluating mediation procedures in the area of environmental policy. Generally, such procedures are evaluated retrospectively and on the basis of general atteria. The Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) conducted a research project into mediation procedures in the field of environmental protection, the central object of study being the mediation procedure undertaken to resolve a dispute over the waste management program of Neuss County in Germany This paper presents some results of the accompanying social scientific research, with the aim of evaluating the success of the mediation. It begin by describing the problems underlying the mediation procedure in NeuSS the procedure itself, and the results achieved. Then follows an evaluation of this procedure, based on eighteen key procedural and results‐related criteria for evaluating the success of the mediation. The analysis shows that evalual ing mediation procedures is a highly complex affair, and that this is reflected in the evaluations made by the participants themselves.
Employee perceptions of the availability and use of interest‐based, right‐based, and power‐based conflict management strategies
Authors: Jameson Jessica Katz 
Published: July 2007

AbstractDescriptive research on workplace conflict management suggests that interest‐based approaches such as mediation are underused (Sheppard, 1984). This study examines managerial and nonmanagerial employees' levels of awareness of the conflict management strategies and third parties available to them, the types of strategy they perceive as most ideal and most realistic, and the barriers to using the most ideal strategies. Results confirm that although mediation is often viewed as the most ideal strategy, it is not widely perceived as most realistic. Findings suggest that many employees need more conflict management training and additional third parties need to be made available in the workplace. Implications for organizational conflict management and dispute system design are discussed.
Lessons from brief therapy? Some interactional suggestions for family mediators
Authors: Dingwall Robert , Miller Gale 
Published: July 2007

AbstractOne continuing issue in mediation is the degree to which mediation and therapy can and should overlap. This article, which draws upon the empirical work of Dingwall and colleagues, looks at an area in which overlap may be beneficial. The authors review the concept and techniques of brief therapy and indicate appropriateness for family mediation.
Community mediation in Singapore: Principles for community conflict resolution
Authors: Tan Ngoh‐Tiong 
Published: July 2007

AbstractAs a global city, Singapore represents a special crisscrossing of numerous ethnicities, nationalities, and people. This article focuses on a planned approach in developing community mediation in Singapore against a backdrop of changing cultures. Key principles and issues for effective mediation, applicable in other contexts, are outlined. Leadership and training in community mediation, as well as public education and prevention of conflict, are discussed in this article. Community mediation must emphasize participation of members of the community and suit social, cultural, and political contexts.
A tale of interesting conversations: Exploring reconciliation in Northern Ireland
Authors: Bland Byron L 
Published: July 2007

AbstractBland describes the conversations and background questions that led to development of a joint research project involving Stanford University's Center on Conflict and Negotiation (SCCN) and Community Dialogue (CD), a grassroots dialogue group in Northern Ireland. Beginning with the premise that contentious political parties can be united by the realization that they cannot get what they want without one another's consent, Bland develops a research agenda based on six propositions about reconciliation. He reports on an extended exploratory workshop that was held by SCCN and CD and highlights an important tension existing between the goal of greater understanding that dialogue seeks and the goal of greater partnership toward which reconciliation aims. In response to the workshop and subsequent political developments, SCCN and CD have begun to explore how the activities of dialogue and relationship building affect, positively and negatively, the more immediate need to reduce destructive social and political conflict.
Building conflict resolution infrastructure in the Central and South Pacific: Indigenous populations and their conflicts with governments
Authors: Barnes Bruce E. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThree areas of the Central and South Pacific have a history of colonization of indigenous peoples by English‐speaking nations. In each area, conflict between the indigenous population and the governments and settler population has been pervasive and diverse. Tracing the indigenous cultural underpinnings of two methods of conflict resolution, the author discusses application of sovereignty dialogues and restorative justice processes. Indigenous Polynesian cultural themes and their recent evolution are connected to the development of powerful, culturally appropriate tools to address the long‐standing conflicts between indigenous peoples and modern governments.
Civil war characteristics, mediators, and resolution
Authors: Olson Marie , Pearson Frederic S. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractIt has been assumed that mediators of civil strife are more likely to experience success if they are both separate and neutral (that is, “outsider‐impartial”) with respect to the conflict at hand. Recently, though, theorists have posed an “insider‐partial” model of the trusted regionally accepted mediator as being more effective. This article tests these contrasting assumptions. According to Roy Licklider, there have been only fourteen cases of successfully negotiated settlement of a civil war since 1945. We therefore derive a sample of seven successful cases and contrast them with seven that were not successfully negotiated, for the 1960‐1994 period. We look for mediator and conflict characteristics predicting successor failure, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses. Results indicate that the relationship is a complex one including various interactive effects where the type of mediator can make a difference. The ability to bring parties to agreement, however, comes most often through repeated attempts and in the presence of some form of external military intervention and major power action, but particular circumstances can be complicated by the nature of civil war itself.
Oregon's scrip model: Building school conflict resolution education capacity through community partnerships
Authors: Ford Eve 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThere are many complex challenges involved in designing and implementing effective school conflict resolution education (CRE) systems, and there never seems to be enough time, money, staff, or other resources. This article describes the community‐based partnerships model that Oregon developed to encourage schools to recognize and draw on those community resources, to start small and build toward a sustainable CRE program.
The ethical basis of mediation: Why mediators need philosophers
Authors: Gibson Kevin 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThere is a great deal of confusion in discussions about ethics in mediation, much of which is caused by practitioners and theorists assuming that key ethical terms are evident and universally accepted, whereas these terms are often vague and contentious. Philosophers can help by clarifying the language used in claims about ethics and by providing a framework, or “grammar,” for rational argument.
Benefits of court‐sponsored divorce mediation: A study of outcomes and influences on success
Authors: Camplair Christopher W. , Stolberg Arnold L. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractEach of seventy‐six divorcing couples and individuals was assigned by court intake officers to either mediation or litigation interventions to resolve child‐related disputes. No formal decision‐making procedure was used for group assignment. Measures assessing initial dyadic, co‐parenting, and family functioning, and dispute characteristics were completed by all subjects before intervention and by mediating couples after intervention. No differences in initial functioning of the two groups were found, but mediating couples presented more disputes and more noneconomic issues. Most mediating couples (69 percent) resolved one or more disputes. Following mediation, women and mediators reported more positive changes than did men. Success in mediation may be linked to the content and importance of the disputes and to the willingness to compromise.
Gentle Jeopardy: The further endangerment of battered women and children in custody mediation
Authors: Hart Barbara J. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article addresses the debate over mediation as an alternative to litigation by reviewing the literature on custody mediation in the context of domestic violence and by examining the “fit” between the process of mediation and domestic violence participants. The evidence shows that mandatory custody mediation is inappropriate in the context of wife abuse.
Effects of domestic violence on children and their consequences for custody and visitation agreements
Authors: Pagelow Mildred Daley 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis research review provides strong support for claims by battered women's advocates that domestic violence is harmful to children. The author argues against custody mediation between abusers and their victims but acknowledges that relatively few victims identify themselves. Some suggestions on ways to identify violent relationships are offered, plus some ideas on measures mediators may take in those jurisdictions where mediation is mandatory. Research findings suggest taking a new look at parent‐child contact after violent marriages terminate in divorce, including a stronger focus on the best interests of the child rather than on parental rights.
Part 3. Models of practice. Mediation triage: Screening for spouse abuse in divorce mediation
Authors: Girdner Linda K. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe Conflict Assessment Protocol is a screening tool that can be administered in individual sessions with parties involved in a divorce‐related dispute. By identifying the parties' patterns of decision making, fighting, and expressing anger, as well as their history of abusive behaviors, the mediator can assess the dimensions of power and control in the relationship and the appropriateness of mediation. A triage system is then employed to sort cases into three categories: (1) those likely to benefit with mediation conducted as usual; (2) those likely to benefit from mediation conducted with specific ground rules, resources, and skills; and (3) those more likely to experience harm, who should be excluded from mediation.
Mediating spousal abuse divorces
Authors: Erickson Stephen K. , McKnight Marilyn S. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article declines to debate whether or not mediation of spousal abuse cases is appropriate. Rather, it assumes that approximately half of all cases submitted for mediation involve some history of spousal abuse; the question therefore becomes not whether to mediate but what special steps must be taken when abuse is suspected or known. Concerns about protection, control, and power balancing require sophisticated skills that the beginning, inexperienced, or minimally trained mediator may lack. This article outlines special procedures that have been developed to assure successful mediated outcomes of these special cases.
Understanding community dispute resolution
Authors: Dukes Frank 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article suggests the need for a new understanding of community dispute resolution programs. Research into these programs has two problems: the conceptual framework that frames research questions focuses solely on dispute processing, thus ignoring other important aspects of community dispute resolution; and the research results do not reach those involved in community dispute resolution, from volunteers to policymakers, in ways that can make a difference to them. By developing new ways of conceptualizing the goals, purposes, and results of community dispute resolution, as well as the problems it is intended to address, researchers can alter the context of policy discourse in this field.
Dispute management in the schools
Authors: Araki Charles T. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractIn the modern‐day school environment, a serious frustration gap exists between students' expectations of being involved in decisions affecting them and the extent to which they actually are involved. Educators have long supported the notion that students should be given a greater role in determining their own destinies. To test this idea, the Dispute Management in the Schools Project was initiated. This experiment demonstrated that students can manage their own disputes effectively, the school can operationalize the notion of “sociolegal informalism,” and the values emanating from empowerment and voluntarism can be realized by students.
Resolving conflict between farmers and creditors: An analysis of the farmer‐creditor mediation process
Authors: van Hook Mary P. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractA recent study shows that mediation can be a relatively effective way of resolving the serious tensions between farmers and creditors brought about by the recent economic crisis in rural areas. Farmers, creditors, and mediators have somewhat different perspectives on what contributes to effectiveness in this process. Mediators must be able to use a variety of intervention techniques and respond to the difficulties created by the severe tension between the disputing parties, their different levels of experience with the mediation process, and the potential costs arising from the outcome.
Recommendations for divorce mediation with chaotically adaptable family systems
Authors: Mathis Richard D. , Yingling Lynelle C. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractAlthough families need adaptability for a healthy divorce, extremely high levels appear to be counterproductive. The concept of chaotic adaptability from the Circumplex Model of family functioning helps to explain the pattern researchers have often mentioned wherein couples negotiate endlessly yet ultimately fail to resolve the dispute. Chaotically adaptable clients evidently become stuck because they literally adapt to the process of divorce itself, integrating the conflict into their dysfunctional nuclear family system, rather than adapting to a new binuclear mode. To unstick such clients, mediators can use specific family therapy approaches to reduce chaos in the family system or make appropriate referrals before initiating negotiations on any issue.