法院调解制度中的人权保障研究

法院调解制度是构筑在自愿及合法原则之基础上的。违背人权的“强制调解”现象也不是由法院调解制度本身所导致的。我国应该从重视人权保障的角度来改革和完善法院调解制度。     

谈行为功能分析在罪犯心理矫治中的临床应用

行为功能分析是罪犯心理治疗的重要步骤,它的主要理论依据是行为治疗的基本理论假设,即适应性行为和非适应性行为都能够通过学习而获得。通过对罪犯问题行为的情境、动机、发展变化的因素、物理环境等的分析,确定对罪犯进行行为治疗的行为目标,能够达到罪犯心理矫治的目的。     

调解语言思维模式与中国传统文化心理

人们要进行成功的言语交际,必须根据对象调整信息源,以达到受话者产生积极反馈的目的.本文主要从以下三个方面论述了调解语言思维模式与中国传统文化心理的关系:传统文化心理影响调解语言的词语选用;传统文化心理影响调解语言切入点的考虑;传统文化心理影响调解语言的成败效果.     

劳动争议大调解制度与实践研究

调解能够比较及时有效地处理争议,使其化解于诉讼之前或之外。研究将劳动争议调解分为两类:一是"小调解",二是大调解。大调解又分为一般大调解和特殊大调解。大调解的法理基础主要是劳动政策层面,由于在对其法定性问题的认识上分歧严重,使得大调解在学界和实践中都有很大争论并延伸到劳动争议中来。实践中已经出现了一些劳动争议之特殊大调解成功模式,如"山东模式""天津模式",为大调解之合理性提供了有力证明和支撑,也为大调解在劳动争议特别是集体劳动争议中的广泛实施,提供了可行性的实践范式。     

Influencing Negotiation Willingness in the Middle East: The Potential Contributions of Private Actors

Numerous efforts to solve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through diplomacy have taken place over the last four decades. To shed light on this dilemma in this article, the role that private actors and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can play to enhance the negotiation willingness of nonstate armed groups was examined. It was argued that the NGOs in particular could play key roles in promoting the negotiation willingness of nonstate actors and also in influencing their internal dynamics and increasing their cohesion. Specifically, we examine two pairs of efforts to resolve the conflict in Israel and Palestine: the “Road Map” and the track two Geneva Initiative of 2003, and the Olmert Peace Plan and Jimmy Carter's visit to the Middle East in 2008. In the first pair, NGO efforts yielded unexpected results. The Palestinians were ready to compromise even though the deal offered by the Israelis did not seem very generous. In the second pair, the reaction of the Palestinians to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's generous peace offer seemed especially puzzling, illustrating, the internal dynamics between the Palestinian factions. Negotiation willingness was closely related to cohesion, and that cohesion plays an important role in conflict negotiations. President Jimmy Carter's efforts in 2008 to enhance cohesion among the Palestinians illustrated the potential that NGOs have to complement official negotiations.     

Mediation,financial remedies,information provision and legal advice: the post-LASPO conundrum*

The near-total collapse in numbers of solicitors providing legal advice and assistance to publicly-funded clients attempting to settle private family law issues through mediation since the legal aid reforms implemented in 2013 raises important questions about how, if at all, clients in mediation can receive legal information and advice other than from lawyers in financial cases following divorce. This article explores, in a preliminary way, this aspect of mediation practice, drawing on small-scale qualitative data from a study conducted shortly prior to the legal aid reforms concerning the settlement of such cases. It explores how mediators then approached their (permissible) function of providing clients with legal information and how they dealt with cases where they felt that the proposed outcome was particularly unfair to one party or unlikely to be endorsed by a court, and asks how mediation practice – and legal practice – may come under pressure to change in this brave new world.     

法院调解的正当性评估

为有效利用法院调解制度并促进制度自身的完善,法院调解的正当性评估是有必要的,其正当性基础是自愿原则。评估可以从双方合意解决纠纷和纠纷解决过程中的法院协助两方面进行。     

论人民调解与诉讼之互补关系

诉讼所面临的困境促使人们重新探求多元化纠纷解决机制,而不再试图以司法尽可能地取代其他纠纷解决方式。人民调解通过自身的特点和优势,对诉讼审判制度补偏救弊、分担压力和补充替代,减少纠纷解决的成本和代价,但同时它自身也还存在许多内在的固有弊端。笔者对人民调解和诉讼作综合性、比较性的功能分析,从纠纷解决过程阐明诉讼与人民调解的互动和互补关系。     

论传统民间调解的创造性转化

在当下法制现代化的进程中,建设法治国家不能盲目地进行法律移植,必须正视法治建设的本土资源。作为一种非正式的纠纷解决方式,传统民间调解作为法治的本土资源具有浓厚的法治意义。传统民间调解作为国家控制社会的体制性存在,在新旧法律传统下由不同的功能,旧法律传统的民间调解具有教化特征,而新法律传统的民间调解则具备治理特色,要以正确处理国家与社会的关系作为基点,对传统民间调解进行创造性转化。     

Credibility and Strategy in International Mediation

We study mediation in international conflict as a process of strategic interaction among the two disputants and the (would-be) mediator. We develop a rational model that examines the choice, process, and outcome of mediation. We start with a conflict game of incomplete information played by rational players that examines the conditions under which disputants and would-be mediators would consider mediation a preferred strategy. The mediation game that follows models the mediator's choice of mediation strategy and the possible responses of the disputants offers. Finally, we explore the conditions under which a mediated solution emerges and the conditions under which mediation fails.

The credibility of the mediator—defined as the extent to which disputants believe the mediator's statements, threats, or promises and her ability to deliver the promised agreement—emerges as a key factor that drives the model. Each disputant has an assessment of the mediator's credibility. Broadly speaking, the more credible the mediator is perceived by the disputant, the more accepting the disputant will be of her offers. Yet, the mediator does not know how credible she is in the view of the disputants. This uncertainty affects the mediator's decision to intervene and her choice of strategies. We derive testable propositions from this model and test them on a dataset consisting of mediation efforts in international conflicts over the years 1945–1995. The findings generally support the propositions derived from the model, and we explore the theoretical and empirical implications of these findings.