ABSTRACT
This chapter explores one promising tool for mediators and peacemakers dealing with conflict in the divorce field: brain science. For mediators and peacemakers, having more detailed information about the interplay between conflict and brain science is of considerable value in assisting those caught in the morass of a marital dispute in order to avoid the devastating pitfalls of an adversarial divorce. When choosing mediation as the appropriate process to resolve contested divorce issues, participants are able to consider solutions with the more reasoned, and more highly developed frontal lobe of their brains. Current brain science teaches that conflict, which also according to Krishnamurti arises from ignorance of self, may be triggered from one or more of any number of real or imagined events. The conflict within and between the husbands, wives, and children of divorce is highly susceptible to manipulation by a spiritually bereft legal dissolution process.
