How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT * This article examines the tension between the mediator’s obligation of impartiality and the active, influential role the mediator must play for mediation to succeed. Beginning from the voluntary and non binding character of mediation and the mediator’s functions of framing cooperative decision making, promoting communication, offering evaluation, empowering the parties and safeguarding fairness, the author reviews the codified understanding of impartiality, including the definition in the Canadian
Bar Association’s Model Code of Conduct, and the duty to disclose and withdraw where impartiality can no longer…
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