Mediation in Context; Introduction; 1. History and Overview of Mediation in the UK; 2. Family Mediation: Working to Support Separated Families; 3. Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation in Primary Schools; 4. Mediation in a South London Secondary School; 5. Community Mediation in an Urban Setting; 6. The Rural Mediation Service; 7. Community Mediation in the USA: Current Developments; 8. Victim-Offender Mediation in Practice; 9. Family Group Conferencing for Victims, Offenders and Communities; 10. The ACAS Approach to Employment Dispute Resolution; 11. Workplace Mediation. 12. Commercial Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)13. Medical Mediation; 14. The Multicultural Elder Mediation Project (EMP): EMPowerment for Older, Disabled and Mentally Frail Persons; 15. Consensus Building and Environmental Decision Making; 16. Mediation in Situations of Large-scale Violence; The Contributors; Further reading; National Mediation Organisations in the UK; Subject Index; Author Index.
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Drawing on their own experiences as mediators, the contributors to this book discuss the benefits and drawbacks of mediation and use case studies to illustrate how mediation works in practice. This book provides a comprehensive overview of mediation as well as containing useful information and advice for anyone involved in mediation.