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AbstractWithin the context of family law mediation, the author explores the issue of giving advice and performing related interventions that mask a similar intention. It does so by examining some codes of conduct and professional standards from Australia, Canada, and the United States and also by drawing on recent literature concerning mediator intervention, particularly on the subjects of impartiality and neutrality, reframing, mediator pressure, ethics, and the concept of the mediator as "folkloric trickster." The author concludes that mediator intervention (such as creating doubt, reframing, and applying pressure to respond to a mediators concern) and selective facilitation obviously do not fit the definition of giving advice in the narrow sense by recommending a specific course of action. Nevertheless, they also are not simply an intervention of process (rather than one of content), for they are intended to redirect a party's attention to a hitherto unthought of or unarticulated substantive possibility. Thus the mediator may be seen, in broad terms, as an advocate for fair and effective use of the process of mediation to safeguard or enhance party self determination. To forward this aim, he or she may use an intervention intended to impart advice while still respecting party autonomy.

"Tricky Things responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems. The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the practice of design and its outcomes can have a dark side, even when the intention is to design for the public good. Considering a range of designed objects and relationships, including guns, eyewear, assisted suicide kits, anti-rape devices, passports and prisons, the contributors offer a view of design as both progressive and problematic, able to propose new material and human relationships, yet also constrained by social norms and ideology. This contradictory, tricky quality of design is explored in the editors' introduction, which positions the objects, systems, services and 'things' discussed in the book in relation to the idea of the trickster that occurs in anthropological literature, as well as in classical thought, discussing design interventions that have positive and negative ethical consequences"--Page 4 of cover