Mediation strategies in the face of custody conflicts

Abstract

Systematic analyses of initiatives and responses from mediators working with parents in intense conflicts about child custody and care brought forward variations in effective strategies. The findings are presented along six dimensions: The topics that were addressed, how the agenda for the sessions was decided, focus on agreement vs relational topics, oral vs written orientation, limited vs generous time, and parental vs system focus. Effective mediators handled these dimensions with flexibility, recognized and validated both parents' perspectives, accepted and explored differences, differentiated topics, focused on relational issues when needed, tracked the process by written summaries, and encouraged testing solutions.

Group conflict handling under moderate evaluative partial mediation using entropic decision framework

“…Wiener described the importance of entropy to manage organisms in the organization as:

In the external world with which we are immediately concerned, there are stages which, though they occupy an insignificant fraction of eternity, are of great significance for our purposes, for in them entropy does not increase and organization and its correlative, information, are being built up. (Wiener, 1954, p. 31)

Researchers have attempted to identify the sources of conflicts (Gulbrandsen et al, 2018; Gulbrandsen et al, 2019). However, there are practically no studies or minimal research related to the formalization of entropy dynamics in organizational setup, especially in conflict handling, management, and resolution domain (Bondar et al, 2021).…”