Individually-Psychological Aspects of the Conciliation-Mediation Procedure to Resolve Labour Disputes

The practice of mediation to resolve clinical, bioethical, and medical malpractice disputes.

Mediation is a voluntary process whereby a neutral and impartial third party-t-he mediator--is present to facilitate communication and negotiation between the disputing parties so that amicable settlements can be agreed. Being confidential and non-adversarial in nature, the mediation process and skills are particularly applicable in clinical practice to facilitate challenging communications fol...

Mediation in Environmental Disputes

Mediation is a type of third party intervention in environmental and other kinds of disputes. Its characteristics – voluntary participation and agreement, confidentiality of exchanges among parties, the search for mutually satisfactory solutions – are well suited for the multi-party, complex context of environmental conflicts. Mediation is often used concurrently with other modes of conflict ma...

Private Conciliation of Discrimination Disputes: Confidentiality, Informalism and Power

“Of all forms of human rights, nothing could be more basic than the rights to life and survival. A natural extension of these rights it the right to development. By providing individuals with equal access to education, employment and participation in community life, society provides a platform for individual development.” Per Ms. Anna Wu Hung-yuk, Chairperson of the Hong Kong Equal Opportunitie...

A Fairness Based Framework to Resolve Political Disputes

ـــــــThis paper presents FISA Framework for Intelligent Situation Analysis. Specifically we present a software tool to solve political disputes. Such a tool can be used successfully to cross the gap between the looseness of political situations specifications and the tightness of formal logical methods. This adaptation is performed by making use of data mining to discover both relevant topics...

Mediation: an approach to intractable disputes between parents and paediatricians.