Mediation as an interdisciplinary collaboration

Abstract

The article is concerned with the actual problem of mutually profitable cooperation of mediation and other directions of science and practice. Mediation versatility as a method of work with conflicts and problems and their reflection in professional demands to mediator is substantiated. The preferences mediation and mediators get from multidisciplinary collaboration at several levels are shown on the example of jurisprudence, psychology, psychotherapy and negotiation theory. Mediation perspectives as practice and theory in collaboration with other disciplines are demonstrated. Is accentuated and shown that this is not only mediation’s enrichment due to influence of other directions of scientific knowledge and practice taking place, but profitability of interaction with mediation for them exists also. Its noticed that fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration exists already, but its potential isn’t revealed yet and these resources could be multiplied on the basis of mediation.