"Exploring mediation and related practices of conflict regulation, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical, legal, anthropological and international perspectives. Divided into three sections, the volume observes historical and current relations between mediation and the criminal justice system and provides anthropological perspectives and case studies to explore mediation and arbitration in international arenas. In this regard, the book provides an innovative perspective on mediation and new insights into conflict regulation"--.

• On Mediation
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Introduction. On Mediation
• Part I. Mediation, Arbitration and the Criminal Justice System
• Chapter 1. Infrajudicial Modes of Conflict Regulation through Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration in Early Modern Criminal Justice
• Chapter 2. Adjudication or Negotiation
• Chapter 3. Mediation, Extrajudicial Conflict Regulation and the Privatization of the Criminal Justice System
• Part II. Mediation
• Chapter 4. What Is Mediation?
• Chapter 5. Mediation in Circumstances of the Existential
• Chapter 6. Mediation and Truth
• Chapter 7. Crossing the Boundaries of Mediation
• Part III. Mediation and Arbitration in International Arenas
• Chapter 8. Interstate Mediation and Arbitration
• Chapter 9. International Mediation and the Problem of Insincere Bargaining
• Chapter 10. The International Court of Justice and Mediation
• Conclusion
• Index