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Introduction: On Mediation: Historical, Legal, Anthropological and International Perspectives on Alternative Modes of Conflict Regulation
Karl Härter, Carolin Hillemanns and Günther Schlee

Part I: Mediation, Arbitration and the Criminal Justice System: Historical and Current Developments

Chapter 1. Infrajudicial Modes of Conflict Regulation through Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration in Early Modern European Criminal Justice
Karl Härter

Chapter 2. Adjudication or Negotiation. Mediation as Non-modern Element in Conflict Resolution in the Nordic Countries
Pia Letto-Vanamo

Chapter 3. Mediation, Extrajudicial Conflict Regulation and the Privatization of the Criminal Justice System
Hubert Rottleuthner

Part II: Mediation: Anthropological Perspectives and Case Studies

Chapter 4. What is Mediation? Definitions and Anthropological Discomforts
Andrea Nicolas

Chapter 5. Mediation in Circumstances of the Existential: Dispute and Justice in Rwanda    
Stefanie Bognitz

Chapter 6. Mediation and Truth
Günther Schlee

Chapter 7. Crossing the Boundaries of Mediation
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

Part III: Mediation and Arbitration in International Arenas

Chapter 8. Interstate Mediation and Arbitration: Concepts, Cases, and Actors of Third Party Dispute Resolution (17th to 19th Century)
Jakob Zollmann

Chapter 9. International Mediation and the Problem of Insincere Bargaining
Nathan Danneman and Kyle Beardsley

Chapter 10. The International Court of Justice and Mediation
Pierre D’Argent

Conclusion
Karl Härter, Carolin Hillemanns and Günther Schlee

Index

On Mediation

Historical, Legal, Anthropological and International Perspectives

Edited by Karl Härter, Carolin Hillemanns and Günther Schlee

238 pages,

ISBN  978-1-78920-869-6 Hb Published (September 2020)

eISBN 978-1-78920-870-2 eBook