Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction. On Mediation: Historical, Legal, Anthropological and International Perspectives on Alternative Modes of Conflict Regulation 1
5. Part I. Mediation, Arbitration and the Criminal Justice System: Historical and Current Developments
6. Chapter 1. Infrajudicial Modes of Conflict Regulation through Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration in Early Modern European Criminal Justice 15
7. Chapter 2. Adjudication or Negotiation: Mediation as Non-modern Element in Conflict Resolution in the Nordic Countries 42
8. Chapter 3. Mediation, Extrajudicial Conflict Regulation and the Privatization of the Criminal Justice System 54
9. Part II. Mediation: Anthropological Perspectives and Case Studies
10. Chapter 4. What Is Mediation? Definitions and Anthropological Discomforts 69
11. Chapter 5. Mediation in Circumstances of the Existential: Dispute and Justice in Rwanda 95
12. Chapter 6. Mediation and Truth 116
13. Chapter 7. Crossing the Boundaries of Mediation 132
14. Part III. Mediation and Arbitration in International Arenas
15. Chapter 8. Interstate Mediation and Arbitration: Concepts, Cases and Actors of Third Party Dispute Resolution (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century) 153
16. Chapter 9. International Mediation and the Problem of Insincere Bargaining 184
17. Chapter 10. The International Court of Justice and Mediation 208
18. Conclusion 219
19. Index 222