Researchers and mediators have long been concerned about coercion, intimidation, and safety threats that could occur in mediation for cases where previous violence between the parties has occurred. Most of the research focuses on screening tools to identify parties at risk. When parties screen positive for intimate partner violence (IPV), some proceed to mediation and some do not, depending on the policies of individual mediation programs. But this misses a step: Some cases may benefit from mediation while others won't, but how can we predict whether mediation will be useful and safe in specific instances? This study uses survey data obtained from parties in domestic relations mediations to examine issues of safety, satisfaction, and settlement in the presence of various IPV behaviors.
Although there is a great deal of literature that has focused on confl icts faced by monocultural people, cross-cultural confl ict scholars have not yet focused on the confl icts faced by bicultural people. Th is topic deserves more study as cultural clashes-confl icts between foreign-born residents and Americans-are prevalent. Considering the number of the immigrants in the United States and the speed of globalization, more confl icts could arise not only in the workplace, but also anywhere else, such as between neighbors, coworkers, colleagues, peers, and even among intercultural family members. Th erefore, in order to prepare for this type of confl ict, this research examined confl ict-handling behaviors of bicultural people. Among many immigrants, this study focused on Korean immigrants in the United States through the Confl ict Communication Scale ( CCS ) and compared the results with nationality, the amount of time that the immigrants have lived in the United States, the level of acculturation, and gender.
Much is known about screening family law mediation cases for potential violence, but little is known about violence that occurs within or immediately after mediation. In this article, we present the findings of a survey of U.S. mediators who reported their experiences of violence across a variety of mediation case types. These mediators described how and when violence arose and also reported the techniques and interventions that they used to de‐escalate tensions and to respond to violence. Our goal is to better equip mediators to prevent violence when possible, and to respond effectively if violence does arise in mediation.
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