conflict mediation
Third-party peacemaking
Conflict mediation is a process where a neutral third party helps disputing sides reach agreement.
The mediator facilitates communication and negotiation but doesn't impose a solution—unlike arbitration, where the arbiter decides the outcome.
The neighbors resolved their fence dispute through conflict mediation.
The approach applies to everything from divorce proceedings to international diplomacy.
- caucusingMeeting to pick candidates
- active listeningFocused, responsive attention to speech
- shuttle diplomacyNegotiation via traveling intermediary
- peace talksFormal conflict-resolution discussions
- reframingChanging interpretive context
negotiation · good faith · compromise · common ground · reality testing · BATNA · workplace disputes · agreement · impasse · cooling off period · reconciliation · facilitation · face to face · mutual understanding · neutral third party · disputants · trust-building · safe space
- negotiationbargaining, bargain, negotiate, compromise, conciliation
- Inuit lawelder councils, community justice, dispute resolution, consensus building, banishment
- peacepeace, peaceful, peacefully, peace sign, peace symbol
- reconciliationreconciliation, reconcile, reconciled, reconciling, making up
- Peacekeepingpeacekeepers, peacekeeping missions, blue helmets, UN peacekeeping, UN missions
- interventionsrescue, surgery, therapy, aid, assistance
conflict mediationlitigation
Legal dispute process
court battle · arbitration · lawsuit · trial · adjudication
conflict mediationwarmongering
Promoting or inciting warfare
provocation · incitement · agitation · antagonism · belligerence
conflict mediationnon-intervention
Policy of staying uninvolved
inaction · neglect · abandonment · disengagement · standing aside