“Justice” As A Goal In Mediation? — EngagingConflicts.com
Victoria Pynchon over at Settle It Now Negotiation blog has written and is asking readers to take a short survey on justice issues in negotiation and mediation here. She asks that you take it not as a mediator, but as a lawyer (if you are one), or as the client herself. She will not share your names with anyone — it is confidential. She’ll leave the survey open until the end of May.
She’s trying to learn more about what people (who are not the mediators themselves) are seeking from mediation and negotiation and how they define justice when seeking a resolution to a conflict. Do clients want procedural justice or distributive justice, more? She discusses these concepts more in this post drawing from an excellent article by Professor Lisa Blomgren Bingham When We Hold No Truths to Be Self-Evident: Truth, Belief, Trust and the Decline in Trials, from a 2006 Symposium Issue for the Journal of Dispute Resolution.
She discusses the results of the survey so far here.
