TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIATION A CRITIQUE This …

- 1 - TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIATION A CRITIQUE This article examines The Promise of MEDIATION from the perspective of a UK MEDIATION practitioner. It considers the contribution the book has made to the development of MEDIATION , both as a critical evaluation of existing practice and as an inspiration for practitioners, including the author. It describes three major critiques of The Promise of MEDIATION before considering the question: does TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIATION provide a coherent theory of MEDIATION ? In answering the question, the article considers what the urge for such a theory tells us about the stage of development of the MEDIATION profession. Introduction When The Promise of MEDIATION was published in 1994, it immediately divided opinion. For some it was revelatory, setting out the true path for a profession that had lost its way in the thickets of the American justice system.

- 2 - Assumptions and practice. Journal of Family Studies, 11(2), 317-322.) In 2005 Baruch Bush and Joseph Folger published a second edition which proclaimed,

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