ABSTRACT
This chapter defines and describes forgiveness, demonstrates the benefits of forgiveness and their implications for mediation, and proposes ways of weaving forgiveness into mediation practice. Promoting dynamic mediation by integrating forgiveness can have far-reaching implications for conflict resolution in today's world. Mediation often seeks to intervene between conflicting parties for the promotion of reconciliation, compromise, or settlement. Transformative model's principle of recognition could address the emotional component of the conflicting parties. Satisfaction model or problem-solving model of mediation focuses on getting disputing parties to a place of resolution and settlement. Forgiveness and reconciliation are different with different objectives and goals. Forgiveness as a whole had positive implications for global mental health. It can positively affect physical health. Forgiveness has been documented to enhance relational health in the areas of marriage, the workplace, close relationships, romantic relationships, families and groups.
