Source: (2006) Conflict Resolution Quarterly. 24(1):111-127.
This study investigates, through descriptive examples taken from actual mediation cases, mediators’ opening statements in one victim offender mediation/dialogue program involving crimes of severe violence. Three distinctive elements of the mediators’ opening statements are illustrated, and implications for the continued study of mediator communication are discussed. (author’s abstract)
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