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Mediation Program (mediation + program)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Law and Criminology40%

Selected Abstracts

Participants' Attitudes in the Utah Juvenile Victim-Offender Mediation Program

JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JOURNAL, Issue 1 2002
BARTON POULSON PH.D.
ABSTRACT This paper describes an archival evaluation of the Juvenile Court Victim-Offender Mediation Program (VOMP) of the Utah State Courts in Salt Lake City. From 1997 to 2000, 147 victims and 330 offenders reported their attitudes towards their experiences in VOMP. Although victims were more satisfied than offenders for some outcomes, all participants reported exceptionally high satisfaction. These promising results are consistent with other published studies on the effectiveness of VOMP and other forms of restorative justice in demonstrating the promise of mediation in criminal justice. [source]

Changing school climate one mediator at a time: Year-one analysis of a school-based mediation program

CONFLICT RESOLUTION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2006
Christina Cassinerio
An urban middle school,university mediation program that emphasizes mentoring of middle school peer mediators by university students is described. Student social-cognitive dispositions, perceptions of school climate, conflict strategy choices, and related conflict behaviors are analyzed on the basis of assessments administered after one year of program implementation. [source]

Taking the footing of a neutral mediator

CONFLICT RESOLUTION QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2006
Brian L. Heisterkamp
This study employs conversation analysis as a method for examining conversational footing in order to achieve mediator neutrality in a court-sanctioned mediation program. Data for the study are video recordings of actual mediation sessions. Participants include volunteer mediators and disputants who filed small claims cases at a county justice court. As first described by Goffman, conversational footing describes the various degrees of participation that interactants can have in relation to their own remarks. [source]

Peer mediation training and program implementation in elementary schools: Research results

CONFLICT RESOLUTION QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2002
Kathy Bickmore
This research examines the implementation and effects of a peer mediation program in twenty-eight urban elementary schools. The Center for Conflict Resolution, a program of the Cleveland, Ohio, public schools, provided intensive training and follow-up support for teams of peer mediators and adult advisers at each school. Trainers were youths from the same community. Qualitative and quantitative evidence indicate that this program significantly improved the average eight- to eleven-year-old students understanding of and inclination to use nonviolent conflict resolution and his or her capacity to achieve in school. The study outlines the specific commitments from administrators and other staff members that were required to develop and implement equitable, effective, and sustainable programs. [source]

Texas launches new hurricane insurance mediation program

ALTERNATIVES TO THE HIGH COST OF LITIGATION, Issue 11 2009
Russ Bleemer
Riccardo Buizza, of Milan, Italy, updates the status of legislation on new Italian class action and mediation laws. Also: a new Texas-sponsored hurricane relief mediation program opens. [source]

The politics of community mediation: A study of community mediation in Israel

CONFLICT RESOLUTION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2009
Lee Li-On
What is community mediation (CM), and how does it affect communities? Drawing on research that examined the politics of CM in the context of a complex, multicultural setting, this article portrays CM as a multifaceted discourse that stakeholders may use to achieve their particular goals. CM, it is suggested, is linked to multiple sources of power and is used by both state and residents to make contesting social claims. This article challenges the apolitical view of CM and its capacity to explain the complex character of power. It proposes considering CM from another perspective, suggesting that examining CM as discourse enables a broader understanding of its social role and significance and facilitates development of appropriate practice. The author suggests that to be socially meaningful CM should be practiced within a broader approach, in terms of social intervention, based on informed, context-related training and practice. Such an approach requires that the role, policies, and practices of community mediation programs (CMPs), and mediators' roles and training, be reconsidered. [source]

Conflict resolution education in the Asian Pacific

CONFLICT RESOLUTION QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2007
Bruce E. Barnes
Conflict Resolution Education (CRE) is taking hold in the Oceania-Island Pacific-East Asia and Southeast Asia region. This article highlights several promising programs from New Zealand-Aotearoa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Fiji, and Australia. Peer mediation programs range from the Cool Schools programs present in more than half of all the schools in New Zealand to newer programs in Singapore. Restorative justice programs are operating in New Zealand, Australia, and Hong Kong. International efforts in both CR and CRE by universities in the region are discussed, highlighting regional centers in South Australia (uniSA) and Queensland (ACPACS). Information is also given about the Asia Pacific Mediation Forum, which will be presenting its third regional conference in June 2008 in Malaysia. [source]