On evaluating mediators

Honeyman, Christopher

doi:10.1007/bf01000454

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“…In a list of components against which mediators should be evaluated, one author notes that the mediator should be prepared, empathic, problem-solving, have persuasion and presentation skills, be able to minimize distractions, manage the interaction and have a substantive knowledge of the subject area (Honeyman 1990). These areas seem to be reflected to varying degrees throughout the literature.…”

Section: What Are the Important Mediator Characteristics Needed For Tmentioning

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Research Report: Control, Communication, and Power: A Study of the Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution of Enforcement Actions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Bourdeaux

O’Leary

Thornburgh

2001

Negotiation Journal

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Two decades after pioneering the use of alternative dispute resolution techniques, practices, and processes, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has emerged as the leader among federal agencies. As such, the EPA provides a useful setting for testing conventional wisdom and theories about alternative dispute resolution. This essay takes data collected as a part of an assessment of the agency's enforcement ADR program and examines how well it reflects or illuminates current theory and conventional wisdom about conflict resolution. In particular, we examine why parties to a dispute choose ADR, and the key elements needed for the successful resolution of environmental conflicts, including the dynamics between the parties at the table and mediator characteristics.Confl ict and crisis are conditions that have pervaded the work of the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since this federal agency was founded in 1970. Industry's relentless attacks on "command-and-control"

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Research Report: Control, Communication, and Power: A Study of the Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution of Enforcement Actions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Bourdeaux

O’Leary

Thornburgh

2001

Negotiation Journal

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“…Honeyman has since developed a scale that can be used to measure the quality he calls "distraction." See Honeyman (1990).…”

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Putting Mediation Skills to the Test

Honoroff

Matz

O’Connor³

1990

Negotiation Journal

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“…It has been more than twenty years since mass practice of mediation became a possible, if not inevitable, result of court and administrative reforms in a number of domains, and more than fifteen years since the first reasonably comprehensive test for mediator skills was articulated (Honeyman 1988, 1990). In the years since performance‐based testing and other tools for gauging and improving mediators’ skills became available, there has been a significant effort toward distinguishing varying definitions of the skills involved so that programs with different purposes and means can tailor the resulting evaluation scales and their uses to their own needs and circumstances.…”

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Skill Is Not Enough: Seeking Connectedness and Authority in Mediation

Honeyman¹,

Goh

Kelly

2004

Negotiation Journal

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Coauthor Christopher Honeyman was struck by the flagging “marketability” of mainstream professionally trained mediators in the U.S. More and more parties were choosing retired judges and other practitioners who were not classically trained mediators to help them resolve their disputes. Searching for an explanation of this phenomenon, Honeyman found a possible answer in Melbourne, Australia, where he listened with a Western ear to the presentations of coauthors Loretta Kelly and Bee Chen Goh about the importance of connectedness and individual perceptions of authority to the parties in the mediation of indigenous disputes. In this article, the authors present case histories from Australia and Malaysia to illustrate these concepts. They contend the same concepts are behind the shifting of the market for mediation in the United States.

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On evaluating mediators

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Research Report: Control, Communication, and Power: A Study of the Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution of Enforcement Actions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Research Report: Control, Communication, and Power: A Study of the Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution of Enforcement Actions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Putting Mediation Skills to the Test

Skill Is Not Enough: Seeking Connectedness and Authority in Mediation

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