ABSTRACT
The importance of mediation in resolving conflicts and disputes is apparent throughout history. Yet many conflicts are not mediated, and often attempts at mediation fail to produce the desired results. This book set out to understand why this is the case. To this end, the Rational Model of Mediation (RMM) offered a unified theoretical framework that defined the conditions under which the considerations of rivaling parties and potential mediators will converge in favor of a mediation attempt, the mediation strategies needed to shift the disputants from conflict to cooperation and the likelihood for success.
