ABSTRACT
In any mediation process, people must be thought of and treated as though they are equal and deserving of love, trust, respect, and social-environmental justice, which asserts that we owe something to every other person sharing the planet with us, both those present and those yet unborn. But, you may ask, what exactly do we have to give? The only things we have of value are the love, trust, respect, and wisdom gleaned from our experiences embodied in each choice we pass forward. And it is exactly because options embody all we have to give those living today and the children of tomorrow and beyond that social-environmental justice as a concept must œt within the context of human equality.
