ACAS.- Adjudication.- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).- Aptitude.- Arbitration.- Artistry.- Authority.- Autonomy.- Bargaining Power.- Children.- Child Abduction.- Civil And Commercial Mediation.- Coercion.- Collaborative Lawyering.- Communication.- Community Mediation.- Competence.- Compulsion ( See Coercion; Mandation; Voluntariness).- Conciliation.- Confidentiality (See Privilege).- Conflict.- Confucian Mediation.- Courts.- Craft.- Critiques.- Culture.- Decision-Making.- Disputes.- Domestic Abuse.- Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE).- Elder Mediation.- Environmental Mediation.- Ethics (See Respect).- European Developments.- Equity (See Fairness; Justice).- Evaluative Mediation.- Fairness.- Family Mediation.- Family Justice System.- Gender.- Gulliver, P.H..- Harvard Negotiation Model (See Models Of Practice).- Human Rights.- Impartiality.- Industrial Mediation (See ACASL; Labour Mediation;.- Informal Justice (See Justice).- International Mediation.- Justice.- Law.- Legal System.- Literature.- Mandation (See Coercion; Compulsion; Voluntariness).- Mediation.- Mediator.- Models Of Practice.- Negotiation.- Neutrality.- Party Control.- Positional Bargaining.- Power.- Practice.- Principles.- Privilege (See Confidentiality).- Process.- Professional Regulation (See Standards).- Research.- Respect ( See Ethics; Principles).- Restorative Justice (See Victim-Offender Reparation).- Shuttle Mediation.- Standards (See Professional Regulation).- Stress.- Strategy.- Structure.- Styles Of Practice.- Systems Theory.- Theory.- Therapy.- Third Persons.- Training.- Transformative Mediation.- Typologies.- Voluntariness (See Coercion; Compulsion, Mandation; Principles).- Women (See Gender).
Marian Roberts is a qualified barrister and social worker and has been in continuous practice as a family mediator for over 30 years. She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where she teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution on their graduate programmes.
If you are in search of a concise yet authoritative overview of mediation as a process of dispute resolution, then you need look no further.
Marian Roberts' A-Z of Mediation succinctly captures the concepts, applications, debates and critiques that are shaping this rapidly expanding field. Expertly organised into just over 80 entries, the book combines theory, research and practitioner experience to provide a wealth of insight and analysis.
The book's unique A-Z format makes it an ideal point of reference. Numerous cross-references are in place to guide you through the material and highlight the field's connecting strands. The key classic and contemporary readings are also systematically signposted, topic by topic, drawn from an extensive multidisciplinary literature.
Whether you are studying, training or already in practice, this book provides an invaluable source of clarity as well as a comprehensive map of the field.
