1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation
Offering unique coverage of an emerging, interdisciplinary area, this comprehensive handbook examines the theoretical underpinnings and emergent conceptions of intercultural mediation in related fields of study.
Authored by global experts in fields from intercultural communication and conflict resolution to translation studies, literature, political science, and foreign language teaching, chapters trace the history, development, and present state of approaches to intercultural mediation. The sections in this volume show how the concept of intercultural mediation has been constructed among different fields and shaped by its specific applications in an open cycle of influence. The book parses different philosophical conceptions as well as pragmatic approaches, providing ample grounding in the key perspectives on this growing field of discourse.
The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation is a valuable reference for graduate and postgraduate students studying mediation, conflict resolution, intercultural communication, translation, and psychology, as well as for practitioners and researchers in those fields and beyond.
Preface
Dominic Busch
Introduction: The interdisciplinary vision of intercultural mediation
Dominic Busch
PART I: Professional intercultural dispute mediation
1. Culture and mediation: A 2020s perspective on early criticism of Western paradigms
Greg Bond
2. Cross-cultural disputes and mediator strategies
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
3. De-essentializing notions of self and identity in mediation
Ida Helene Asmussen
4. Cultural humility in intercultural mediation
Shino Yokotsuka
5. Intercultural mediation training
Claude-Hélène Mayer
6. Interculturality in Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)
Dorcas Quek Anderson
7. Policing and intercultural mediation: Forms of triadic conflict management
Catharina Vogt and Stefanie Giljohann
8. Putting culture into a perspective in intercultural mediation
Katharina Kriegel-Schmidt
PART II: Intercultural mediation in international politics
9. Interculturality in the concept of peace mediation
Anne Holper
10. Hybrid peace mediation in the age of pandemics
Anine Hagemann and Isabel Bramsen
11. The political dimensions of culture and religion in mediation
Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Timothy Seidel
12. Third parties’ involvement in contexts of political conflict and power imbalances
Helena Desivilya Syna
13. Seeing people in interactive peacemaking through a consciousness lens
Susan H. Allen
14. The past is the past—or is it? Considering the role of the past in intercultural mediation
Barbara Tint, Minji Cho, and Martha Doyle
15. The politics of intercultural space: Inclusive, unobtrusive, and failed mediation
Haynes Collins
PART III: De-Centering Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
16. Imagining a racially diverse and inclusive mediation field: Uncovering the structural hurdles
Maria R. Volpe and Marvin E. Johnson
17. Intercultural mediation from a European perspective
Agostino Portera
18. Islamic forms of intercultural mediation
Akram Abdul Cader
19. Transforming conflict cultures through mediation
Kenneth Cloke
20. Indigenous conflict resolution strategies beyond the ADR paradigm
Hamdesa Tuso
PART IV: De-essentializing culture in intercultural mediation
21. The discourse of thirdness in intercultural mediation
Malcolm N. MacDonald
22. The triadic character of intercultural learning: Insights from edusemiotics
Juming Shen and Ying Zhou
23. The bridge metaphor in intercultural mediation
John Corbett
24. Using creative non-fiction to pinpoint moments of deCentering in intercultural mediation
Adrian Holliday
25. Emic and etic perspectives on culture in mediation
Alena L. Vasilyeva
26. Professional dispute mediators’ notions of culture
Dominic Busch, Emilian Franco, and Andrea Hartmann-Piraudeau
27. Design thinking and design communication for intercultural conflict management
Patrice M. Buzzanell, Sean Eddington, Evgeniya Pyatovskaya, and Aliah Mestrovich Seay
PART V: Theorizing intercultural mediation
28. Theorizing mediation from the perspective of legal anthropology
Marc Simon Thomas
29. Anthropological approaches to culture in conflict mediation
Rebecca Golbert
30. Anthropology and mediation in an environmental conflict: Worldview translation as synthesis
Brenda J. Fitzpatrick
31. Weaving together three strands of research: Culture, communication, and conflict
Deborah A. Cai and Edward L. Fink
32. Intercultural mediation as intercultural competence
Jan D. ten Thije
33. It takes three to tango. A sociological triadology
Ulrich Bröckling
34. A framework for understanding intercultural mediation from the standpoint of a systemic theory of communication
Claudio Baraldi
PART VI: Linguistic explorations of intercultural mediation
35. Research from conversation analysis on intercultural mediation
Angela Cora Garcia
36. Managing culturality in mediation sessions: Insights from membership categorization analysis and discursive psychology
Siobhan Brownlie
37. Intercultural mediation from the perspective of linguistic pragmatics
Anthony J. Liddicoat
38. Storytelling, culture, and identity in mediation
Brian L. Heisterkamp
PART VII: Psychological tools for analyzing intercultural mediation
39. Cultural intelligence in intercultural mediation
Gabriela Gonçalves and Cátia Sousa
40. Research from psychology on intercultural mediation: Cultural values and emotional intelligence
Marjaana Gunkel, Christopher Schlägel, and Vas Taras
41. Measuring intercultural mediation in the context of intergroup conflict: Classical and modern test theory approaches to scale assessment
Sara Rubenfeld and Richard Clément
PART VIII: Translation research and intercultural mediation
42. Intercultural mediation in translation and interpreting studies
Mustapha Taibi
43. Translation as intercultural mediation—The evolution of a paradigm
Cinzia Spinzi
44. The mediating role of empathy in community interpreting
Leticia Santamaría Ciordia
45. Exacerbating cultural differences in translation/interpreting as intercultural mediation
Jiayi Wang
PART IX: Intercultural mediation in foreign language education and the arts
46. The intercultural speaker as an intercultural mediator
Melina Porto and Manuela Wagner
47. Intercultural mediation in contexts of translanguaging
Keiko Tsuchiya
48. Children as intercultural mediators
Zhiyan Guo
49. Intercultural mediation in the world language classroom
Christelle Palpacuer Lee
Biography
Dominic Busch is a full professor of intercultural communication and conflict research at the faculty of human sciences, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany.
"Today, the promises and pitfalls of multiculturalism, internationalism and globalization fill our headlines and our daily lives. As a result, there is an increasingly urgent need for peacemakers who can bring sensitivity, insight, evidence and skill to helping us navigate cultural differences, particularly those that are deep, invisible and sacred. This extraordinary book—The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation—is the most current and comprehensive resource for those intrepid mediators who serve as our guides in these tumultuous times. It will serve as the canon for this work, and a treasured resource for decades to come."
Peter T. Coleman, Professor of Psychology and Education, Director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, USA
"I cannot think of a better volume to help us make sense of the avalanche of intercultural ‘nightmares’ that we have been facing since early 2020—and before that! Dominic Busch has managed to put together a stimulating interdisciplinary and visionary compendium around intercultural mediation. Together with the authors they remind us that mediation does not just matter in times of emergencies but that it is pivotal to the very notion of interculturality at all times. The handbook retells the past of intercultural mediation, keeps us up-to-date with today’s research and inspires us for the future. It should be on everyone’s must-read list."
Fred Dervin, Professor of Multicultural Education, University of Helsinki, Finland
"The ideas and practices of intercultural mediation draw (or at least, should draw) from a wide variety of subject matter, fields and research traditions. A thorough academic treatment that crosses all these ‘silos’ is overdue, and The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation addresses this gap in style. Its array of authors shows not only the expected level of expertise as well as the range of cultures and nations for such a work, but also a creative selection of fields and backgrounds. A list of the wide variety of research settings in this book might begin with the sciences, business, law, engineering, health care and linguistics, but it won’t end there. This is an essential resource for anyone who is trying to understand what mediators can do, and how they can improve, in the complex interactions that make up intercultural work."
Christopher Honeyman, Managing Partner at Convenor Conflict Management, Washington, DC, USA
"A global pandemic, geopolitical ructions, social and economic inequality, and the rise of artificial intelligence provide stark reminders as to why intercultural mediation continues to matter. Learning to live well together is an enduring project of humanity, and understanding how to achieve this remains at the core of the concept and practices of intercultural mediation. This volume traces the evolution of this term and its various manifestations across diverse disciplines, paradigms and cultural worldviews. It represents a comprehensive, rich and compelling account of why intercultural mediation remains crucial for reciprocal engagement, justice and peace that must occur if we are to come together to face the great challenges that lie ahead."
Michelle Kohler, Senior Research Fellow, Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, UniSA: Justice and Society, University of South Australia, Australia.
"This collection is particularly broad, being interdisciplinary and international as well as intercultural, including the topics covered, disciplines represented, and chapter authors, and thus should be relevant to an uncommonly large group of researchers, practitioners, and students."
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA
"The new handbook weaves together interdisciplinary insights into the role of intercultural mediation in situations of conflict, dialogue, and more inclusive forms of community-building across varied cultural and organizational contexts. As well as contributing to debates about the meanings of culture and interculturality, the book provides a nuanced view of the field, laying out theoretical achievements and gaps and identifying promising practices."
Kirstie McAllum, Department of Communication, Université de Montréal, Canada
"A unique and stimulating collection of perspectives and insights on the interplay between mediation and culture. The authors come from a wide array of disciplines and cultures and explore a variety of situations at different levels of abstraction. This book can enrich anyone’s ability to recognize, understand, and deal wisely with cultural influences in mediation—and other situations."
Leonard L. Riskin, Visiting Professor, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, USA
"Given the numerous wars between nations and violent conflicts within nations in today’s world, it’s obvious that neutral third parties trained in intercultural mediators are needed to help resolve such conflicts. In light of this, The Handbook of Intercultural Mediation should be required reading for this important group of professional mediators."
Joseph A. Scimecca, Professor of Sociology, George Mason University, USA
"The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation is a tour de force. This work is a dazzling achievement written with great skill by a global community of scholars, and whose usefulness will have a long life. This book makes a significant contribution toward nonviolent social change, especially when placed against the backdrop of the current urgencies of global pandemic and the horrors of war. Beginning with an initial review of the literature, the stage is set for current and future researchers and practitioners to reexamine how they (we) have thought about culture, conflict, and community. As the reader is invited to assume roles of observer and participant, an impressive gathering of international contributors explores diverse aspects of intercultural mediation as a process of dispute resolution, a byproduct of translation and pedagogy, and as a communicative or socio-political aspiration. These authors present a wide range of approaches, disciplines, voices, and perspectives that highlight, yet bring cohesion to disparate epistemological and methodological tensions."
Mary Adams Trujillo, Professor Emerita of Communication Arts and Conflict Transformation, North Park University, USA
"Full of innovative approaches and observations, including alternatives to and critiques of a Western-only approach to mediation, this Handbook of Intercultural Mediation is a treatment of mediation that examines interculturality as it should be done- comprehensively, globally, and respectfully. This volume, appearing as the world struggles with the global impact of both epidemic and war, could hardly be more timely. It is unique in bringing both depth and breadth to the topic of intercultural mediation. Especially remarkable for the range of scales represented, from analyses of language to international politics, the volume is destined to be a touchstone for work in mediation, and for intercultural studies generally, for years to come."
Geoffrey White, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i, USA