Chapter 19

Mediation

 

19.1  Social Organization of mediation in non-industrial societies

            1.  Define mediation

            2.  Courts are encouraging community mediation programs

            3.  Mediation in small scale societies

                        Process of mediation

                        Social organization of mediation

                        Nature of  mediated settlements

            4.  Community based mediation programs

                        Urban mediation is more perfunctory, less concrete

                        Social system does not support mediation to the same degree as with primitives

                        Moving away is more of an option here

                        Court ordered mediation cannot rely on social pressures

                        No shared moral system

                        Role of coercion

                        Problem of lack of equality of parties

 

19.2  Expansion of the informal state

            1.  "Junk cases" moving out of the court system

            2.  Lack of formal dispute resolution system makes for more disputes

            3.  State benefit programs create problem of legitimacy for courts

           

19.3  Navajo nation's court system

            1.  Peacemaker division

            2.  Influence of common culture

            3.  Preserves the culture

            4.  Model of contrast to adversarial system

            5.  Court can refer cases or people can volunteer

            6.  Role of talking things out

            7.  Role of storytelling, moral basis for decisions