MWI is proud to announce that we are now making our library available to all of our mediators.  MWI has an extensive collection of ADR articles in addition to the books listed below.  If you would like to borrow a book, please email <jhoch@mwi.org> with the time and date you would like to come by the office.  An email will be sent to you within two business days confirming the date and time you may pick up the book

We ask that books be returned to the MWI within two weeks, unless other arrangements are made.  Should a book become lost, stolen or damaged, you will be required to purchase a new copy for MWI in a timely manner.

We are working to grow our collection in an effort to provide the best possible resources to our mediators and to keep up with developments in the field.  Suggested titles are welcome.

Happy reading and thanks for being a part of MWI.

The MWI Staff

Mediation Quarterly

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, March 1986, Number 11

·        Some Observations on Divorce Mediation in Britain and the United States

·        Toward a Minimal Form of Alternative Intervention

·        Assessment in Divorce Conciliation: Issues and Practice  

        Out-of-Court Settlements: Policy, Principle, Practice, Procedure

·        Conciliation in Britain

·        The Scottish Scene: A Summary of Recent Developments in Conciliation Throughout Scotland

·        Family Mediation in Canada: Past, Present, and Future Developments

·        An Experimental Approach to Divorce Assistance: Recent Developments in the Netherlands

 Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, June 1986, Number 12

·        Lawyers and Divorce Mediation: A Communication Approach to Consubstantiality

·        Components of Bowen’s Family Theory and Divorce Mediation

·        Systemic/Strategic Aspects and Potentials in the Haynes Model of Divorce Mediation

·        Coordinating an Innovative Mediation Program

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Spring 1988, Number 19

·        Qualifications of Family Mediators

·        Family Mediation Training Programs: Establishing Standards

·        Identity Issues for Mediators

·        Training Mediators: Teaching About Ethical Concerns and Obligations

·        Measuring Clients’ Perceptions and Satisfaction

·        Developing and Testing a Family Mediation Assessment Instrument

·        Comparative Costs and Benefits of Divorce Adjudication

·        Getting to the Table: Attrition in a Dispute-Settlement Program

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Summer 1988, Number 20.

·        Getting to the Table: Three Paths

·        Problem Statements in Negotiation and Policy Formation

·        The Role of Citizens Groups in Policy Conflicts

·        Managing Major Metropolitan Areas: Applying Collaborative Planning and Negotiation Techniques

·        Negotiating a State Environmental Quality Act: The Arizona Groundwater Case

·        Negotiated Rule Making: Challenges for Mediators

·        The Policy Dialogue: Applying Mediation to the Policy-Making Process

·        State and Federal Initiatives in the Use of Mediation

·        Conflict Resolution and Public Disputes: Bibliography and Resources

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Fall 1989, Volume 7, Number 1

·        What is a Fair Agreement?

·        Reframing Conflict: Implications for Fairness in Parent-Adolescent Mediation

·        Divorce Mediation in New Hampshire: A Voluntary Concept

·        The Ethical Basis of Mediation: Why Mediators Need Philosophers

·        Alternative Dispute Resolution in Brazil

·        U.S. Mediation in Revolutionary Conflicts, 1944-1986

·        Conflict Resolution in Elementary and Secondary Education

·        Future Lawyers: Adversaries or Problem Solvers? Two Law School Programs in Alternative Dispute Resolution

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Fall 1990, Volume 8, Number 1

·        Family Functioning Level and Divorce Mediation Outcome

·        Is Mediation Less Expensive? Comparison of Mediated and Adversarial Divorce Costs

·        Understanding Community Dispute Resolution

·        Mediation and Domestic Violence: A Call for Collaboration

·        Dispute Management in the Schools

·        Resolving Conflict Between Farmers and Creditors: An Analysis of the Farmer-Creditor Mediation Process

·        The Common Core of Mediation

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Winter 1990, Volume 8, Number 2

·        The Physics of Mediation: Reflections of Scientific Theory in Professional Mediation Practice

·        The Power of Mediation

·        Recommendations for Divorce Mediation with Chaotically Adaptable Family Systems

·        A Mediation-Counseling Approach to Marriage Crisis Resolution

·        Mental Illness and Labeling in Mediation

·        Mediation and the Workplace: Creating an Awareness Within Employee Assistance Programs

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Spring 1991, Volume 8, Number 3

·        Mediation Post decree Disputes

·        Emotional Anger and Grief in Divorce Mediation

·        Mediating the Breakup: Do Children Win?

·        Negotiation as a Therapeutic Technique in Brief Couples Therapy

·        Private Agreements in Residential Development Disputes

·        Hands-On Mediation in a Private-Practice Setting

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Fall 1991, Volume 9, Number 1

·        Judging the Fairness of Mediation: A Critical Framework

·        Reexamination of the Bar: Incentives to Support Custody Mediation

·        Mandatory Mediation: A Rose by Any Other Name

·        Mediation and Probation: The Presentence Investigation

·        Mediator Gender: Communication Differences in Resolved and Unresolved Mediations

·        Publication Patterns in the Early Years: Dispute Resolution in the Psychological Abstracts, 1980-1985

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Winter 1991, Volume 9, Number 2

·        The Boundaries Between Mediation and Therapy: Ethical Dilemmas

·        Mediation: A Social Exchange Framework

·        Divorce Mediation in the Light of Cybernetic Explanation

·        Toward a New Discourse for Mediation: A Critique of Neutrality

·        Mediation and Public Policy: Variations on a Consensus Theme

·        The Equity of Mediated Divorce Agreements

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Spring 1992, Volume 9, Number 3

·        Preparation Abuse, Marital Conflict Mediation, and Post separation Abuse

·        How Mediation Can Effectively Address the Male-Female Power Imbalance in Divorce

·        Community Benefits from Mediation: A Test of the “Peace Virus” Hypothesis

·        Making Mediation Services Work: A Market Perspective

·        Who Nurtures the Nurturer? A Model of a Peer Support Group

·        Dress Your Brochure for Success

·        Publication Patterns in the Growth Years: Dispute Resolution in the Psychological Abstracts, 1986-1989

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Winter 1992, Volume 10, Number 2

·        On the Theory and Practice of Mediation: The Contribution of Seventeenth-Century Jurisprudence

·        Toward a Feminist-Informed Model of Therapeutic Mediation

·        Ethics and the Professional Family Mediator

·        Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Is Mediation An Appropriate Forum?

·        Mediator Neutrality and Story Telling Order

·        Parent-Child Mediation: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice

·        New Paradigms for Mediation: Thinking About Our Thinking

·        Dispute Resolution in the Psychological Abstracts:  Publication Patterns in 1990 and 1991

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Spring 1993, Volume 10, Number 3

·        The Role of Minorities in Establishing Mediating Norms and Institutions

·        The Mediator’s Role in National Conflicts in Post-Communist Central Europe

·        Cultural Diversity and Democratic Institutions: What Role for Negotiations?

·        An Examination of Industrial Conflict in Post-Communist Society

·        Exporting Process Technology: Transplanting North American Public Interest Mediation to Central Europe

·        Do Peaceful Conflict Management Methods Pose Problems in Post-Totalitarian Poland?

·        Developing Democratic Decision-Making and Dispute Resolution Procedures Abroad

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Summer 1994, Volume 11, Number 4

·        Applying Cooperative and Competitive Conflict Theory to Mediation

·        Mediation and Wife Abuse: A Review of the Literature

·        Attitudes of Indiana Judges Toward Mediation

·        Evaluating Parental Stressors of Divorcing Couples Referred to Mediation and Effects of Mediation Outcomes

·        Mediation Attitudes and Preferences Concerning Mediator Certification

·        The Use of Empowerment in Child Custody Mediation: A Feminist Critique

·        The Kids Get the House

·        Mediation and Post crisis Intervention in an Urban High School

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Fall 1994, Volume 12, Number 1

·        Not Effective Communication but Effective Persuasion

·        Building on Structured Mediation: An Integrated Model for Global Mediation of Separation and Divorce

·        Grandparent Visitation Disputes: Multigenerational Approaches to Family Mediation

·        The Construction of Ethics in Mediation

·        The Four Foundations of Family Mediation: Implications for Training and Certification

·        The Impact of Mediator Strategic Choices: An Experimental Study

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Winter 1994, Volume 12, Number 2

·        Implications of Gilligan for Divorce Mediation: Speculative Applications

·        Conflict Resolution Across Cultures: A Hawaii Perspective and a Pacific Mediation Model

·        Gay Parents and Child Custody: A Struggle Under the Legal System

·        Mentorship in Family Mediation

·        Mediators’ and Lawyers’ Perceptions of Education

·        Attitudes of Attorneys Towards Mediation

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Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Spring 1995, Volume 12, Number 3

·        Justice Paradigm Shift? Values and Visions in the Reform Process

·        Restorative Justice on Trial in Britain

·        Victim-Offender Mediation: Lessons from the Japanese Experience

·        Victim-Offender Mediation by New Zealand Probation Officers: The Possibilities and the Reality

·        The Development and Impact of Victim-Offender Mediation in the United States

·        Mediation for Children, Youth, and Families: A Service Continuum

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Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Fall 1995, Volume 13, Number 1

·        The Constructive Uses of Deception: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques of the Folkloric Trickster Figure and Their Application by Mediators

·        Issues in the Termination of Mediation Due to Abuse

·        A New Way of Viewing Dispute Resolution Training

·        Mediation as an Alternative to Court for Lesbian and Gay Families: Some Thoughts on Douglas McIntyre’s Article

·        Research in Family Mediation: Review and Implications

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Winter 1995, Volume 13, Number 2

·        Power Imbalance in Divorce and Interpersonal Mediation: Assessment and Intervention

·        The Disputing Process: An Ethnographic Study of a Homeowners Association

·        Advanced Medical Directives and Family Conflict: A Potential Opportunity for Mediator Intervention

·        The Role of the Mediator in Family Mediation - The Mediator as Trickster: The Folkloric Figure as Professional Role Model

·        Camp Sister Spirit: A Retreat Under Siege

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Spring 1996, Volume 13, Number 3

·        Cultural Competence in Family Mediation

·        Practice Guidelines for Co-Mediation: Making Certain That “Two Heads Are Better Than One”

·        A Procedure for Divorce Settlements

·        Resolving Parental Abduction: Child Find of America’s Mediation Program

·        Practical and Ethical Concerns in Divorce Mediation: Attending to Emotional Factors Affecting Mediator Judgment

·        Women and Mediation: A Chance to Speak and to Be Heard

·        Mediating Status Offender Cases: A Successful Approach

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Summer 1996, Volume 13, Number 4

·        Transformative Mediation and Third-Party Intervention: Ten Hallmarks of a Transformative Approach to Practice

·        Respecting the Struggle: Following the Parties’ Lead

·        Inviting Fortuitous Events in Mediation: The Role of Empowerment and Recognition

·        Directing and Administrating a Mediation Program

·        Constructive Confrontation: A Transformative Approach to Intractable Conflicts

·        From Diatribe to Dialogue on Divisive Public Issues: Approached Drawn from Family Therapy

·        Reflexive Dialogue as Transformation

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Fall 1996, Volume 14, Number 1

·        The Production and Knowledge in Mediation

·        Effects on High School and Peer Mediation Training into an Academic Unit

·        Notions of Equity and Fairness in the Context of Divorce: The Role of Mediation

·        Mediation of Mobile Home Landlord Tenant Disputes: An Assessment of Government Agency Implementation of Mediation

·        Communication Effects on Divorce Mediation: How Participants’ Argumentativeness, Verbal Aggression, and Compliance-Gaining Strategy Choice Mediate Outcome Satisfaction

·        Mediation of Children Issues When One Parent is Gay: A Cultural Perspective

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Winter 1996, Volume 14, Number 2

·        The Development of Pedagogy and Practicum

·        Mediation and Empowerment in Child Protection Cases

·        Cognitive Roles in the Mediation Process: Development of he Mediation Inventory for Cognitive Roles Assessment

·        The Role of Children in Mediation

·        A Nationwide Survey of Mediation Centers

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Spring 1997, Volume 14, Number 3

·        Mediation on 125^th Street: Commerce and Conflict Resolution in Harlem

·        Broadening the Scope of Divorce Mediation to Meet the Needs of Children

·        Humanistic Mediation: A Transformative Journey of Peacemaking

·        Concepts of Neutrality in Family Mediation: Contexts, Ethics, Influence, and Transformative Process

·        Mediation as Mutual Influence: Reexamining the Use of Framing and Reframing

·        A Mediation Approach Designed by Adolescent Disputants

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Summer 1997, Volume 14, Number 4

·        Training and Educating Environmental Mediators: Lessons from Experience in the United States

·        Confronting Social Injustice as a Mediator

·        Problem Solving for One

·        Mediating When Domestic Violence is a Factor: Policies and Practices in Court-Based Divorce Mediation Programs

·        Achieving Neutrality and Impartiality: The Ultimate Communication Challenge for Peer Mediators

·        A Quantitative Analysis of the Use and Avoidance of Mediation by the Cook County, Illinois, Legal Community

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Spring 1998, Volume 15, Number 3

·        Responses of Asian American and European American Mediators to a Conflict Communication Scale

·        Peer Mediation: A Qualitative Study of Youthful Frames of Power and Influence

·        Effects of Divorce Education on Mediation Process and Outcome

·        Mediation and Medical Practice Disputes

·        Theorizing Power in Divorce Negotiations: Implications for Practice

·        Negotiation and Evil: The Sources of Religious and Moral Resistance to the Settlement of Conflicts

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Summer 1998, Volume 15, Number 4

·        Gender and Interaction in Divorce Mediation

·        Exploring the Cognitive and Affective Capacities of Child Mediators in a “Successful” Inner-City Peer Mediation Program

·        Situated Substantive Expertise: An Ethnographic Illustration and a Proposed Standard of Practice for Mediators

·        Deconstructing Family Mediation Practice via the Simulated Client Technique: The Case of the Unresolved Marital Attachment

·        Mediation, Gender, and Justice in Botswana

·        Adaptations to the Civil Mediation Model: Suggestions from Research into the Approaches to Conflict Resolution Used in the Twin Cities’ Cambodian Community

·        The Name of the Game is Movement: Concession Seeking in a Judicial Mediation of Large Money Damage Cases

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Fall 1998, Volume 16, Number 1

·        Professional and Traditional Collaboration in the Mediation of Family Conflicts: The Case of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel

·        An Interpretive Analysis of the Mediation Rhetoric of Fathers’ Rightists: Privatization Versus Personalization

·        Straw Man Rising: A Rejoinder to Della Noce

·        Couples from Hell: Undifferentiated Spouses in Divorce Mediation

·        Family Peacemakers: An Extended Family Mediation and Conflict Resolution Skills-Training Program for Youth Offenders During Probation

·        Mediation and the Elderly: What Mediators Need to Know

·        Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation in Public Schools: What Works?

·        Mediation: A Family Therapy Technique?

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Winter 1998, Volume 16, Number 2

·        Disabilities and Mediation Readiness in Court-Referred Cases: Developing Screening Criteria and Service Networks

·        Diffusion of a Campus Innovation: Integration of a New Student Dispute Resolution Center into the University Culture

·        The Language of Cooperation: Negotiation Frames

·        Changing the Paradigm: The Effect of Recent Family Law Legislation in England, Australia, and the United States

·        Satisfaction with Custody Mediation: Results from the York County Custody Mediation Program

·        Developmental Considerations: Encouraging Perspective Taking in Student Mediators

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Spring 1999, Volume 16, Number 3

·        Background Characteristics and Incentives of Mediators in Georgia: Exploring Differences in Public, Private, and Government Agency Mediators

·        National Survey of Victim-Offender Mediation Programs in the United States

·        Predictors of Client Participation in Victim-Offender Mediation

·        The Use of Performance Art and Q Methodology for Increasing Mediator Recognition of Trauma and Domestic Violence

·        Is a Stage Model of Mediation Necessary

·        Conflict Transformation Training in Another Culture: A Case Study from Angola

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Summer 1999, Volume 16, Number 4

·        Family Mediation and Cultural Diversity: Mediating with Latino Families

·        The Limits of the Mediators Neutrality

·        Contextual Mediation

·        African Americans in Mediation Literature: A Neglected Population

·        Attribution Bias: Challenges, Issues, and Strategies for Mediation

·        Developing Family Mediation Standards: An Australian Experience

·        Evaluation of Mediation and Parental Cooperation Based on Observations and Interviews with the Clients of a Mediation Project

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Fall 1999, Volume 17, Number 1

·        The Concept of Facework: Its Functions and the Hawaii Model of Mediation

·        Conflict Assessment and the Cape Cod National Seashore

·        The Affirmation and Good News Caucuses of the United Methodist Church

·        The Importance of the Party Buy-In in Designing Organizational Conflict Management Systems

·        The Role of the Neutral in Intra-Organizational Mediation: In Support of Active Neutrality

·        Negotiation Culture in a Post-Soviet Context: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Winter 1999, Volume 17, Number 2

·        Conflict Education in a Special Needs Population

·        Responding to a School wide Conflict Resolution-Peer Mediation Program: Case Study of a Middle School Faculty

·        To Mediate or Not to Mediate: Financial Outcomes in Mediated Versus Adversarial Divorces

·        Evaluation of Participant Reactions to Premediation Group Orientation

·        Reformulating Dispute Narratives Through Active Listening

·        Practice Issues in Community Mediation

·        Mediator Attitudes Toward Outcomes: A Philosophical View

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Spring 2000, Volume 17, Number 3

·        The Impact of Victim-Offender Mediation: A Cross-National Perspective

·        Examining and Responding to Conflict Between African American and Jewish American Students on a College Campus

·        What is Means to Be Sorry: The Power of Apology in Mediation

·        The Party of the Last Part: Ethical Process Implications for Children in Divorce Mediation

·        Relational Transformation in Mediation: Following Constitutive and Regulative Rules

Family and Conciliation Courts Review, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, April 2000, Volume 38, Number 2

·        From Infants to Adolescents: A Developmental Approach to Parenting Plans.

·        A Forensic Psychology Model of Risk Assessment for Child Custody Relocation Law

·        National Attitudes Regarding Gender Bias in Child Custody Cases.

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Summer 2000, Volume 17, Number 4

·        Community Mediation: Reflections in a Quarter Century of Practice

·        Reflections on Past Successes and Future Challenges: Three Perspectives

·        Community Mediation Centers: Renewing the Civic Mission for the Twenty-First Century

·        Understanding Public Dispute Resolution in Community Mediation

·        Community Mediation and the Court System: The Ties that Bind

·        Diversity in Community Mediation: A Conversation with Janice Tudy-Jackson and Roberto Chene

·        Attorneys’ Negotiation Strategies in Mediation: Business as Usual?

·        Current Issues Facing the Practice of Environmental Mediation

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Fall 2000, Volume 18, Number 1

·        Genetic Technology and Family Conflict

·        Mediation and Feminism: Common Values and Challenges

·        How Transformative is Volunteer Mediation? A Qualitative Study of the Claims of Volunteer Mediators in a Community Justice Program

·        Child-Inclusive Divorce Mediation: Report on a Qualitative Research Study

·        Emotion, Alienation, and Narratives: Resolving Intractable Conflict

·        Symbol in Mediation

Mediation Quarterly, The Academy of Family Mediators, Summer 2001, Volume 18, Number 4

·        Refining and Testing Joint Fact-Finding for Environmental Dispute Resolution: Ten Years of Success

·        Money and Mediation: Patterns of Conflict in Family Mediation of Financial Matters

·        Beyond the Dominant Narrative: Intimacy and Conflict in Lesbian Relationships

·        Conflict Education and Special-Needs Students, Part Two: Improving Conflict Competence and Emotional Competence

·        Evaluating Environmental Mediation: Results from a Waste Management Conflict in Germany

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, ACR, Fall 2001, Volume 19, Number 1

·        Where is the Trust? Using Trust-Based Mediation for First Nations Dispute Resolution

·        Resolving Middle-Age Sibling Conflict Regarding Parent Care

·        Enacting and Reproducing Social and Individual Identity Through Mediation

·        Not Quite Protocols: Toward a Collaborative Research in Dispute Resolution

·        Creating Healthy Communities Through Affirmative Conflict Communication

·        Integration in Environmental Conflict

·        Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice of the Fourth Party

·        If We Don’t Stop This Train, It Will End Up in the Direction It’s Headed

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, ACR, Spring 2002 Volume 19, Number 3

·        Lessons from Brief Therapy? Some Interactional Suggestions for Family Mediators

·        Community Mediation in Singapore: Principles for Community Conflict Resolution

·        Transnational Conflict Resolution Practice: A Brief Introduction to Context, Issues and Search for Best Practice in Exporting Conflict Resolution

·        A Tale of Interesting Conversations: Exploring Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

·        Building Conflict Resolution Infrastructure in the Central and South Pacific: Indigenous Populations and Their Conflicts with Governments

·        Have Gavel, Will Travel: Dispute Resolution’s Innocents Abroad

·        Ethics and Field Building: The Chicken and the Egg  

Please contact Josh Hoch at <jhoch@mwi.org> or phone 617-973-9739 x23 for more information.

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