On Mediation

Karl Härter is Professor, Research Group Leader and Senior Research Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt/Main and  a member of the International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment, Halle/Germany.

Introduction: On Mediation: Historical, Legal, Anthropological and International Perspectives on Alternative Modes of Conflict Regulation

Karl Härter, Carolin Hillemanns and Günther Schlee



Part I: Mediation, Arbitration and the Criminal Justice System: Historical and Current Developments



Chapter 1. Infrajudicial Modes of Conflict Regulation through Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration in Early Modern European Criminal Justice

Karl Härter



Chapter 2. Adjudication or Negotiation. Mediation as Non-modern Element in Conflict Resolution in the Nordic Countries

Pia Letto-Vanamo



Chapter 3. Mediation, Extrajudicial Conflict Regulation and the Privatization of the Criminal Justice System

Hubert Rottleuthner



Part II: Mediation: Anthropological Perspectives and Case Studies



Chapter 4. What is Mediation? Definitions and Anthropological Discomforts

Andrea Nicolas



Chapter 5. Mediation in Circumstances of the Existential: Dispute and Justice in Rwanda    

Stefanie Bognitz



Chapter 6. Mediation and Truth

Günther Schlee



Chapter 7. Crossing the Boundaries of Mediation

Keebet von Benda-Beckmann



Part III: Mediation and Arbitration in International Arenas



Chapter 8. Interstate Mediation and Arbitration: Concepts, Cases, and Actors of Third Party Dispute Resolution (17th to 19th Century)

Jakob Zollmann



Chapter 9. International Mediation and the Problem of Insincere Bargaining

Nathan Danneman and Kyle Beardsley



Chapter 10. The International Court of Justice and Mediation

Pierre D’Argent



Conclusion

Karl Härter, Carolin Hillemanns and Günther Schlee



Index