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AbstractAs a global city, Singapore represents a special crisscrossing of numerous ethnicities, nationalities, and people. This article focuses on a planned approach in developing community mediation in Singapore against a backdrop of changing cultures. Key principles and issues for effective mediation, applicable in other contexts, are outlined. Leadership and training in community mediation, as well as public education and prevention of conflict, are discussed in this article. Community mediation must emphasize participation of members of the community and suit social, cultural, and political contexts.

The development of the Divorce Mediation Assessment Instrument (DMAI), based on six dimensions—commitment, social‐psychological factors, values, understanding, skills, and conflict—was in response to the need to systematically assess clients' readiness for divorce mediation and to inform and guide intervention. Tests on DMAI showed high reliability, and reasonable instrument validity. The implication of DMAI for mediation practice is discussed in terms of the various outputs of DMAI: DMAI score, subscale score, and item score. Issues in assessment raised included highlighting strengths, working on agreements, and preventive intervention. DMAI's implication for theory building and research is also discussed. Careful assessment is needed for appropriate use of mediation, and the DMAI provides a model of assessment which has clinical, empirical, and theoretical validity.

AbstractHow can assessment at the beginning of mediation improve the process?