The editor of this publication is Silvia Barona, Director of the Chair.
The Culture for Legal Mediation Chair UV presents the book “Meditaciones sobre mediacion (+MED)” (Meditations about Mediation (+MED)) by the publishing house Tirant lo Blanch [see cover].
This book brings together a series of reflections, discussions and debates on mediation from a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspective. This book presents mediation in the context of a new look at justice, highlighting what this institution can and should continue to contribute.
“After several decades of the legal life of mediation, we are in a position to evaluate an institution such as the one under analysis. In this evolution we have heard enthusiastic positions of the institution -in some cases disproportionate-, sceptics, and also those who value mediation in the integration of an integral model of Justice, in which self-compositive and heterocompositive ways converge in a real, adequate, accessible and egalitarian search for the protection of citizenship.”
The book “Meditaciones sobre Mediación (+MED)” is presented as what it is, reflections, discussions, debates, no longer about the commonplaces of mediation, which we have heard so much and which ‘taste’ so hackneyed to us, but as possible reflective contributions, made by those who have approached the institution, its practice, its teaching or learning, and even its research. This is not just another book on mediation. It offers a transversal and multidisciplinary vision, which allows proposals to be made with respect to both existing and planned rules, with respect to conflicts that fit perfectly within the solution of conflicts through mediation or even areas that until now were complex or did not even exist in the world of legal relations.
These “Meditations on Mediation” are offered in the context of a new view of Justice, because mediation is also part of it, of that asymmetrical, multifaceted and diverse Justice, to which mediation contributes an enormous intangible value, extrapolating skills, aptitudes, generating intellectual, human and relational capital, an indisputable structural and social capital. An essential book for mediators and for those interested in mediation.
