INSTITUTE INITIATIVES AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

The Court-Connected Mediation Synergy Project

The Court-Connected Mediation Synergy Project is focused on exploring court-connected mediation in light of the theoretical framework of transformative mediation, and how court-connected mediation programs can reflect relational values. This means exploring all parameters of court-connected mediation programs, and developing relational approaches to such practical matters as program design, mediator selection, mediator training, mediator compensation, the use of standardized forms, enabling legislation, Bench and Bar support, research methods and protocols, and program quality control, to name a few. The projects ultimate goal is to produce and make available to the field concrete resources that elaborate the contours of a synergistic court-connected mediation program and enable those who wish to implement such a program to do so.

For more information about this project, contact Dorothy J. Della Noce at dellandj@jmu.edu.