Mediation Ethics is a groundbreaking text that offers conflictresolution professionals a much-needed resource for traversing theoften disorienting landscape of ethical decision making. Edited bymediation expert Ellen Waldman, the book is filled withillustrative case studies and authoritative commentaries bymediation specialists that offer insight for handling ethicalchallenges with clarity and deliberateness. Waldman begins with an introductory discussion on mediation'sunderlying values, its regulatory codes, and emerging models ofpractice. Subsequent chapters treat ethical dilemmas known to vexeven the most experienced practitioner: power imbalance, conflictsof interest, confidentiality, attorney misconduct, cross-culturalconflict, and more. In each chapter, Waldman analyzes the competingvalues at stake and introduces a challenging case, which isfollowed by commentaries by leading mediation scholars who discusshow they would handle the case and why. Waldman concludes eachchapter with a synthesis that interprets the commentators' pointsof agreement and explains how different operating premises lead todifferent visions of what an ethical mediator should do in a givencase setting. Evaluative, facilitative, narrative, and transformativemediators are all represented. Together, the commentaries showcasethe vast diversity that characterizes the field today and revealthe link between mediator philosophy, method, and process ofethical deliberation. Commentaries by Harold Abramson Phyllis Bernard John Bickerman Melissa Brodrick Dorothy J. Della Noce Dan Dozier Bill Eddy Susan Nauss Exon Gregory Firestone Dwight Golann Art Hinshaw Jeremy Lack Carol B. Liebman Lela P. Love Julie Macfarlane Carrie Menkel-Meadow Bruce E. Meyerson Michael Moffitt Forrest S. Mosten Jacqueline Nolan-Haley Bruce Pardy Charles Pou Mary Radford R. Wayne Thorpe John Winslade Roger Wolf Susan M. Yates