Grand Mediation in China

Hu, Jieren

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“…Facing increasing social conflicts, the central government regards mediation as a flexible, low-cost, and widely applicable method of settling disputes and has recently made significant policy reforms to revitalize civil mediation (Waye and Xiong, 2011). Grand mediation is probably the most popular innovation among these reforms; it aims at mobilizing authorities and resources from different social and governmental agencies to solve problems (Hu, 2011). Meanwhile, as a grass-roots mechanism, people’s mediation (a term used by the government for civil mediation) has gained more substantial institutional support with the passing of the PRC People’s Mediation Law in 2010 The government’s reforms have triggered widespread local responses, and many innovative programs have been established nationwide.…”

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Constructing mediator identities through questioning in Chinese televised mediation

Zhang

Dong

2023

Discourse Studies

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This study, integrating poststructuralist discourse analysis and conversation analysis, analyzes how the question-answer sequences construct mediators’ dynamic identities during Chinese televised mediation. The research shows that different mediators in the team tend to employ different types of questions at varying stages; that questions serve not only to elicit information but also to manage the multilateral talk, to make assertions, to persuade, and to construct different identities; that different mediators’ identities include the manager, the reality tester, the moral educator, the facilitator, and the entertainer. Instead of remaining neutral, they might step out of the neutralistic circle and adhere to the golden mean. The complex representation of these identities is deeply rooted in China’s cultural and socioeconomic background. This study provides a thorough understanding of the interplay between questioning and identity in institutional contexts and the mechanism of Chinese televised mediation.

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Constructing mediator identities through questioning in Chinese televised mediation

Zhang

Dong

2023

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From social management to social governance: social conflict mediation in China

Liu

2014

Journal of Public Affairs

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China currently faces increasingly serious social conflicts. In the past, China's approach to resolving social conflicts was ‘social management’. Now, however, it is turning to the development of ‘social governance’. This change reflects the inability of government acting alone to recognise and to address comprehensively the type of social problems that require co‐ordination of social forces. Our research identifies three dimensions of governance and provides a comparative framework allowing us to illuminate how social governance as conceived in China differs from that in Western countries. Under China's current conditions, the strengthening and development of social governance is a holistic process. Neither market‐centrism nor state‐centrism is pursued, and pure social‐centrism is not the favoured direction of development; the path chosen is rather a state‐led social pluralism. The implications we see for the Government are that it should first transform its own functions to achieve a substantially higher quality of public service. This would put it in a position to empower (civil) society to mobilise multiple and varied social forces to participate so that social conflict can be optimally addressed. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Restorative Justice in China

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Grand Mediation in China

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