Tippett on Mediation a la Carte

Liz Tippett (Oregon) has posted a short abstract outlining her new project, Mediation a la Carte: Improving the Transparency and Diversity of Mediator Styles. It is a must-read for those of us interested in the implications of the various approaches available to mediators and disputants. You can review her abstract here.

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  1. This is an interesting area for study, but makes me a little uneasy at the same time. I think it will be very interesting to see what sorts of techniques and styles are valued most in mediation, but I am concerned that you may not truly be able to separate the mediation style from the mediator. I think it is highly possible that the most heavily favored styles will not be so due to a pure preference for the style, but maybe instead that a particularly effective mediator employed that style. So then the real preference is not for the style as much as it is for that specific mediator. I think it will be very interesting to see.

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