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"The End of Mediation"

This post was written by StephanieWestAllen: "For those of you who have not yet read Peter Adler's "The End of Mediation: A Ramble on Why the Field Will Fail and Mediators Will Thrive over the Next Two Decades" (mediate.com), I recommend perusing this article. I heard Adler and Robert Benjamin speak last May and appreciate their iconoclastic wisdom. Iconoclastic wisdom is one element of this article.

Adler states:

I believe that our identity-shaping notions of mediation are at an odd point of climax and the end of our paradigm is being fueled by three forces:

(1)    The dawning realization that our skills aren't unique;

(2)    An awareness that we really are not a real field or profession; and

(3)    A growing comprehension that the social, political, economic and technical problems we face will accelerate the adoption of our value-propositions, strategies, and skills into other domains.

And then goes on to explain each of the three points..."

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Source: idealawg, 27 January 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on January 28, 2010 (boomark / email).