Why online mediation?

 

The Peace Practice

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"Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just etherical, spiritual and unworldly activities.
They are realistic occupations without which there is no future."    
Desmond Tutu, chairman of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1995-1998)

      

Online mediation comes with a great number of advantages:

• Budget and time efficient
  - Mediation is characterized as a quick, flexible, low-cost and informal way
  of resolving disputes.
  - It is also a good method to facilitate and move along stalled negotiations.

• No run-away costs, clogged agendas
  - Each session, with a maximum duration of about an hour, is prepayable.
  The process does not clog the agendas for months to come, costs don't run
  out of control.
  - There are no hidden costs by way of surprise after the process has been
  wrapped up.
  - The costs are in principle borne by the parties in equal part.

• No open-endedness
  Mediation is not an open-ended process: is has a formal beginning and a
  foreseeable end. The start is marked by acceptance of the Statute and the
  Mediation Agreement. The process is wrapped up by the issue of the Final
  Certificate, irrespective if its outcome.

• Full confidentiality
  The mediator is independent, neutral, evenhanded and observes the strict-
  est confidentiality. Nothing said, done or produced during the process can
  be used in Court.

• Beneficial
  The fact alone that both parties have worked together toward a mutual
  solution is enough to improve the relationship considerably.

• Therapeutic
  Mediation also offers the necessary psychological space to come to terms
  with traumatic emotions from the past.

• Mitigating
  When disputes are anticipated, legal steps cannot yet be taken at that stage:
  the full facts are not yet available and with such steps the conflict would also
  certainly escalate. But early mitigating intervention can still halt the conflict
  from mushrooming beyond control.

• No watered down compromises!
  Due to the fact that compromises have to be made, in litigation the underlaying
  interests are not always served to the full. Mediation on the other hand serves 
  all aspects the parties themselves bring to the fore. No watered down
  compromises!

• Acceptability
  A solution to which the parties voluntarily contribute as stakeholders is on the
  long term more acceptable than a result imposed from above. The contributors
  may in fact have achieved something to be proud of!

• Realism reigns
  Moreover, the result one hopes for through litigation may not always be realistic;
  however convinced you may be of the fairness of your case, a judge may well
  think otherwise ...

In short, it is time to consider mediation. Don't let it escalate...!

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"A crisis is too valuable to waste".
Ben Verwaayen, CEO British Telecom Group

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