Mediation in Asia Pacific: A Practical Guide to Mediation and its Impact on Legal Systems (includes FREE one year access of ONLINE version)

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This is a new book on mediation in Asia.

This book will offer insights and give many practical suggestions for mediation professionals, mediators, and lawyers to consider when they work in the mediation area.

This book will include the latest developments in the major SE Asian centres of dispute resolution and any current legislation for the reader’s information.

To give the reader food for thought, It will conclude by posing the question that if the Western and Asian models can co-exist and if they can learn from each other, what may the combining of the best of both models look like in the future.

Key Features & Benefits

This book will take the reader through the mediation process in China and the West.

• discuss the difference between the two;
• explain what the underpinning culture/communication is; and
• how mediation affects real-life cases.

This book will also:

• examine the history of mediation in Asia and the West;
• briefly discuss how the Asian and Western models developed;
• look at the similarities and differences between Asian and the Western models and what this means for mediation practice; and
• look at the concept of culture and how Asian cultural perceptions impact on modern mediation models.

The facilitative model developed in California is a very powerful model. However, one cannot transplant the whole model when doing mediation in Asia. This book will take a basic framework of Western facilitation mediation as a guide, and discuss each phase of mediation and analyse cultural factors as they apply to each stage of the process.

This will include examining how:

• face;
• trust;
• decision making;
• “guanxi”; and
• other Asian values

must be handled by mediators who work in cross cultural dispute resolution fields.