What is Mediation

1.

A means in which messages, discussion and behaviour are becoming more and more conceptual and abstract and have an effect on our social being. Learn more in: Philosophy of Web-Based Mediation

2.

An alternative dispute resolution method. The litigating parties may voluntarily submit a dispute to a neutral, independent mediator. This latter does not issue a decision but supports the parties in finding a mutually agreed upon solution. Learn more in: Legal Issues of Virtual Organizations

3.

Mediation is a private, informal dispute resolution process in which a neutral third party (the mediator) helps disputing parties to reach an agreement. The mediator has no power to impose a decision on the parties. Learn more in: Managing Legal and Negotiation Knowledge

4.

A process for working through conflict in which contending individuals and groups, facilitated by a third-party mediator, air grievances, state interests, and negotiated solutions that are acceptable to all participants. Learn more in: From Conflict to Constructive Engagement: Mediating Public Art

5.

A learning process where individuals gain higher mental development through interacting with other objects and individuals. Learn more in: Perspectives on Mediated L2 Learning during Study Abroad: Identity, Motivation, and Learning Strategies

6.

A restorative approach used in the school setting when there is conflict between two or more students. Similar to a conference, a mediation is an intensive or targeted intervention often facilitated by an authority figure, and reparation agreements that satisfy the needs of the person(s) harmed are usually developed. Learn more in: Can Technologies Advance the Integration of Restorative Pedagogy into Teacher Education Curricula?

7.

Any act or utterance of the interpreter that goes beyond interpreting or that takes place outside of the session and which is intended to remove a linguistic barrier to communication. Learn more in: Cross-Fertilization of Training and Research in a Master's Program in Public Service Interpreting and Translation: Some Challenges and Results

8.

A dispute resolution process in which a neutral third party known as a mediator helps the negotiators resolves an impasse by reaching an agreement. Learn more in: Conflict Resolution in E-HRM Environments

9.

A voluntary process in which disputing parties invite a third party neutral to assist them in resolving their differences. While there are various approaches to, and styles of, mediation, one commonality is the lack of mediator decision-making authority: parties are bound by the process’ outcome only if they finalized an agreement. Most mediation processes are characterized by the mediator attempting to repair the disputing parties’ relationship and improve their communication, so as to enable them to speak openly about their concerns and needs and work together towards addressing them. Learn more in: Online Dispute Resolution

10.

Human knowledge is embedded in artefacts which produce and transform human experience. It is a process in which tools are understood as objects or stimuli that bring about or enhance reflection, discussion or learning activities. Learn more in: Communication and Relation Building in Social Systems

11.

Mediation is the semantics-preserving transformation of a message in one message format into a message of a different message format that represents the same information. Learn more in: Business-to-Business (B2B) Integration

12.

A major aim is to integrate knowledge about humans by drawing on various approaches and methods. The mediation processes can have very different forms, depending not only on the nature of the conflict, but also on the role of the mediator and the mediation style. Mediation tends to facilitate interactions by solving and preventing problems and conflicts either by offering formal structures that develop negotiation and conflicts resolution processes or by preparing several protagonists that in their daily life will apply and use these concepts and competences of apprenticeship in the cognitive and social domain. Learn more in: Outlining the Value of Cognitive Studies in Increasing the Strategic Management within Organizations

13.

A hypothesized causal chain in which an independent variable affects an intervening variable (the mediator) which in turn affects the dependent variable. Learn more in: Which Matters More?: Effects of Surface- and Deep-Level Diversity on Team Processes and Performance

14.

Intervention in a dispute in order to resolve it; arbitration. Learn more in: The “Private Face” of Nonprofits: Legal and Ethical Human Resource Practices

15.

The conceptualization of different social elements/subjects that come to interact, communicate and exchange information among each other based on the production and reproduction of social relations. Learn more in: Mediation Is the Message: Social Media Ventures in Informational Capitalism

16.

Intervention to bring conflicting parties together to settle differences and promote reconciliation. Learn more in: Undermining Leadership Effectiveness