The Mediation Field Guide: Transcending Litigation and Resolving Conflicts in Your Business or Organization

At last--the definitive one-stop guide for anyone who wants to know what mediation is and how it works. The Mediation Field Guide is a comprehensive primer that is filled with practical strategies for elevating conflict resolution to a process that can effectively resolve business, personal, community, and institutional disputes on multiple levels. Throughout the book, expert mediator Barbara Ashley Phillips provides insights into both the simplicity and complexity of the inner workings of mediation that will enable you to use the process with the skill and finesse of a professional mediator.

Author: Phillips
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 06/06/2001
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.36w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9780787955717

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 81

About the Author
BARBARA ASHLEY PHILLIPS served as Assistant United States Attorney in federal district court, Oregon, before becoming a mediator. In over twenty years of mediation practice, she has resolved complex, multi-party disputes and a wide range of sensitive issues, including cases of sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, partnership disputes, and environmental issues, in such fields as construction, computers, insurance, medicine, securities, real estate, and aviation. She offers training in the U.S. and Canada through American West Institute for Conflict Resolution and the North American Institute for Conflict Resolution. She can be contacted at www.mediate.com/baphillips.