Confronting social injustice as a mediator
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23235181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael A McCormick (Salisbury University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 293-307 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mediation Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-4098 • E-ISSN: 1932-7544 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/crq.3900140404 |
| OpenAlex | W2152976529 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 6 |
Using literature from several disciplines and reflections on the author's mediating experience, this article asserts that mediators should confront social injustice. The author suggests that the ethic of impartiality be joined by other guiding principles such as transformation, equality, relationship, and justice. Mediators, he contends, need to challenge power imbalances, appeal to moral authority, and encourage disputants to exercise self‐actualizing and cooperative forms of power. This is possible, he argues, when the mediator helps the perpetrator of an injustice subjectively experience the harm done to the victim. Such an approach necessarily implies a revision of our notion of impartiality.
Appeal · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Harm · Impartiality · Injustice · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social injustice · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.26 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2019 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |