This book, as the title suggests, is about a kind of mediation. (Mediation can be thought of as facilitated conflict resolution, or facilitated decision making. It’s more informal than court and the parties decide the outcome, unlike having a judge or arbitrator decide for them.) While mediation as a concept isn’t new, the professional development of mediation is pretty new – really around 50 years old. Most mediators are “facilitative” mediators, meaning that they try to facilitate a process in which they get at the […]