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“Mediation: the idea: influences on the development of conflict resolution.”

Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015

Source: (1993) Justice of the Peace, 1993 November 27, 766-7.

The development of community mediation in the United States during the 1960s and 70s is briefly outlines, including ideas brought back to the West from technologically simple societies by anthropologists; the article ends with a summary of principles used in negotiation and mediation, as set out by R Fisher and W Ury of the Harvard Negotiation Project.

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