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Examines mediation parties' real and personal lived experiences of mediation and relationship change
Presents five individual case analyses allowing the reader a most profound and unprecedented insight into each participant’s personal story of conflict and mediation
Provides a nuanced exploration of common patterns identified across cases
Offers a great number of varied perspectives enabling the reader to compare and contrast the meaning of mediation in an exceptionally in-depth manner
Blends theoretical depth and practical perspectives in an interdisciplinary context
Ample recommendations are provided for practice and research in the broad area of mediation.
Offers insight for practitioners working in the broad field of conflict and dispute resolution, including mediators, lawyers, HR practitioners, conflict coaches
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Contextualising Relationship Changes in Mediation
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Individual Case Analyses: Personal Understandings of Conflict and Mediation
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Overarching Common Themes and Discussion
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About this book
This book presents an unprecedented qualitative research study on relational changes in mediation with a truly interdisciplinary outset, drawing on the literature on psychology, alternative dispute resolution and business. Mediation's potential to induce changes in parties' relationships as an advantage of the process is commonly mentioned in the literature. However, despite its being a key to reconciliation, relational changes in mediation has not yet been a topic of foundational and fine-grained qualitative enquiry.
As the first study in the literature, this research uses in-depth interviews with mediation parties and the qualitative methodology of interpretative phenomenological analysis in order to explore participants' lived experiences. The phenomenological stance ensures a particularly rich data set and a nuanced interpretative analysis. This pioneering piece of research seeks to enter mediation parties' true experiences as closely as possible, moving beyond pre-existing theoretical, quantitative and large-scale qualitative explorations.The themes are discussed in the context of theory, research and practice. Therefore, this book advances knowledge about mediation both in theoretical and practical terms. Innovative conclusions and recommendations are provided for developing mediation practice, mediation training programmes, and further research.
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Authors and Affiliations
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School of Law, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Timea Tallodi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How Parties Experience Mediation
Book Subtitle: An Interview Study on Relationship Changes in Workplace Mediation
Authors: Timea Tallodi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28239-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28238-7Published: 05 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28241-7Published: 05 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28239-4Published: 22 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 305
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management, Conflict Studies