Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
Abstract
Over seventeen years have passed since the first edition of Bush & Folger's The Promise of Mediation. Edited by Bush and Folger together with Dorothy Della Noce, Transformative Mediation: A Sourcebook - Resources for Conflict Intervention Practitioners and Programs offers a new and important contribution to our understanding of the promise of mediation, this time not necessarily because of the particular ideology of the transformative approach, but because of the manner in which this volume demonstrates how mediation scholarship can further develop mediation proficiency. The promise of mediation and the future of its institutionalization as a respected, distinct profession lies in the field's ability to develop methodologies with coherent theoretical grounds and systematic, consistent professionalization and implementation processes. The authors contributing to this volume do just that, persistently emphasizing the linkage between the theoretical foundations of the transformative approach and the continuous construction of the practice of mediation as they see it, thus inspiring further development of more systematic, consistent methodologies in other mediation ideologies.
In this volume the theoretical foundations gain further clarity, and the implication of these foundations in practice is examined in new terrains, exploring how transformative mediation is implemented in various contexts (family mediation, organizational settings, multi-party processes, etc.), thus nurturing the branches of a tree well rooted.
Disciplines
Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Law
Recommended Citation
Ran Kuttner,
Methodology in Action: On Consistency, Accuracy and Proficiency in Mediation,
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Cardozo J. Conflict Resol.
141
(2011).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cjcr/vol13/iss1/6