At least for now, community mediation appears to be not only surviving but expanding into new venues of contention. In New Mexico, the process has been used to bring environmentalists, businessmen and women and the Forest Service together over logging disputes. Peer mediation, where students are trained to solve disputes, is being employed by increasing numbers of schools. Mediation is even proving successful in resolving truancy problems. People like mediation because of how it works.
Mediation helps people to understand each other better.