The Promise of Mediation: Responding to Conflict Through Empowerment and Recognition (Jossey-Bass Conflict Resolution)

Bring a fresh approach to the bargaining table

Tap the transformative potential of mediation and discover the full promise of the mediation process. In this insightful work, the authors present an alternative theoretical framework that affords a deeper understanding of conflict and mediation -- one based on respect for personal strength and compassion for others. Drawing on their own experience and a wide body of research, they offer mediation practitioners, administrators, policy makers, and researchers a new and useful perspective on how mediation is currently practiced, how it could be structured to accomplish more, and how to refine the process for future application.

ROBERT A. BARUCH BUSH is the Rains Distinguished Professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution Law at the Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York. He has written extensively on mediation and alternative dispute resolution scholarship from the Center for Public Resources. JOSEPH P. FOLGER is professor of communication and the associate dean for research and graduate study at the School of Communications and Theater, Temple University. He is coauthor (with M. S. Poole and R. K. Stutman) of the award-winning book Working Through Conflict: Strategies for Relationships, Groups and Organizations (2nd ed., 1993).