The mediation metamodel: Understanding practice

• Main Author: ALEXANDER, Nadja
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Mediation; reconciliation; arbitration; decision-making; Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1863; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3815/viewcontent/MediationMetamodel_2008.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The mediation metamodel provides a systematic framework for understanding mediation as it is practiced in a variety of professional and cultural contexts. Six mediation practices are introduced within the framework of the metamodel: settlement mediation, facilitative mediation, transformative mediation, expert advisory mediation, wise counsel mediation, and tradition-based mediation. The relationships of these different practices to one another are explored and the assumptions underlying them are examined with reference to the literature. The metamodel provides orientation in the dispute resolution field not only for mediators, parties, and their lawyers, but also for regulators, referring bodies, researchers, and students of mediation.