Mediation Ethics

This is the ground-breaking handbook of ethics written for conflict resolution professionals. It provides an indispensable daily tool for all practitioners in the field and offers a must-have resource for practitioners, professors, students, attorneys, and everyone in the field of meditation and alternate dispute resolution.

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Mediation Ethics is a groundbreaking text that offers conflict resolution professionals a much-needed resource for traversing the often disorienting landscape of ethical decision making. Edited by mediation expert Ellen Waldman, the book is filled with illustrative case studies and authoritative commentaries by mediation specialists that offer insight for handling ethical challenges with clarity and deliberateness.

Waldman begins with an introductory discussion on mediation's underlying values, its regulatory codes, and emerging models of practice. Subsequent chapters treat ethical dilemmas known to vex even the most experienced practitioner: power imbalance, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, attorney misconduct, cross-cultural conflict, and more. In each chapter, Waldman analyzes the competing values at stake and introduces a challenging case, which is followed by commentaries by leading mediation scholars who discuss how they would handle the case and why. Waldman concludes each chapter with a synthesis that interprets the commentators' points of agreement and explains how different operating premises lead to different visions of what an ethical mediator should do in a given case setting.

Evaluative, facilitative, narrative, and transformative mediators are all represented. Together, the commentaries showcase the vast diversity that characterizes the field today and reveal the link between mediator philosophy, method, and process of ethical deliberation.

Commentaries by



Harold Abramson


Phyllis Bernard


John Bickerman


Melissa Brodrick


Dorothy J. Della Noce


Dan Dozier


Bill Eddy


Susan Nauss Exon


Gregory Firestone


Dwight Golann


Art Hinshaw


Jeremy Lack


Carol B. Liebman


Lela P. Love


Julie Macfarlane


Carrie Menkel-Meadow


Bruce E. Meyerson


Michael Moffitt


Forrest S. Mosten


Jacqueline


Nolan-Haley


Bruce Pardy


Charles Pou


Mary Radford


R. Wayne Thorpe


John Winslade


Roger Wolf


Susan M. Yates