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This article examines the role of environmental conflict resolution (ECR) in the public interest issues of water disputes. The article endeavours to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of a range of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and negotiation approaches in the context of decision-making. Although many embrace ECR as the cheaper and more effective alternative to more formalistic and entrenched judicial processes before courts of law and quasi-judicial tribunals, the authors argue that there is an urgent need for a more critical, contextual and issue-oriented approach. In particular, the article highlights the significant difficulties associated with representing the full range of stakeholders who should be involved in an ADR process, and the lack of transparency and procedural safeguards associated with ADR in complex public interest disputes. The strength of ADR in smaller project-specific disputes involving a very limited number of stakeholders is well understood. The authors argue that ADR may have a significant role in scoping the issues and associated research as well as facilitating agreement on procedural aspects of large, complex public interest water disputes. However, ADR has severe limitations as a decision-making process. For example, water conflicts necessarily involve the concept of sustainability that in turn touches on a complex maze of social, political, economic and ecological values. The probability of reaching a mediated settlement in such a context is severely curtailed. A preferable approach may be one that is entirely transparent, capable of being both monitored and enforced, and is binding on all stakeholders whether or not they are parties to the mediation.

AbstractInternational financial organizations (IFOs) such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and regional development banks, including the Asian Development Bank and the Inter‐American Development Bank, are covered in their charter provisions with immunity from judicial proceedings in national legal systems on employment matters. Over the years, IFOs have found a practical way to deal with employment disputes and conflict resolution. Administrative tribunals have been established to serve as judicial proceedings. Informal processes such as ombudsperson (also referred to as ombuds) services have been provided by IFOs. In recent years, growing emphasis has been placed on other informal processes such as mediation services. IFOs have collaborated with, and learned lessons from, other organizations including the United Nations, the International Ombudsman Association, multinational corporations and national agencies to improve the delivery of informal processes.

PurposeThe service effort behavior (SEB) of health professionals may be impeded by many factors. This study aims to draw upon the conservation of resources and stressor–strain–outcome theories to test a moderated mediation model that explores how work–family conflict (WFC) influences SEB. The mediating effect of emotional irritation (EI) and the moderating effect of organizational identification (OI) was also tested.Design/methodology/approachData was collected over two waves from 524 health professionals working across India and was tested using SPSS PROCESS macros and Amos 24.FindingsThe results revealed that WFC has a significantly negative relationship with SEB, and EI mediates the relationship between the two variables. The mediation process was further moderated by OI.Originality/valueThere is an absolute scarcity of evidence that has explored the association of WFC and SEB with the mediating role of EI. Along with offering a nuanced understanding of these relationships, this study also presents some interesting insights to health-care administrators.

The conflicts in Northern Ireland and Kosovo are among the most important recent conflicts in Europe for the EU's ambition to develop a role and capacity in conflict management. The EU has frequently presented Northern Ireland as a 'model' for conflict management, but it is not clear what the substantive elements of the model are, or whether lessons have been transferred to other cases such as Kosovo. The EU's role in both conflicts is analysed, in particular as regards the impact of its immense funding on peace-building and reconciliation, and how EU capacity in this policy field has developed over the last decade. The tensions and contradictions in EU policy are illustrated in both cases. The article concludes that core features of the model of political accomodation in Northern Ireland are the nature of the consociational institutions, the virtual absence of transitional justice, and the policy acceptance of the segregated social structures. Such lessons are not easily compatible with EU declaratory policy on conflict management. (Ethnopolitics)

After a historical review of the evolution of mediation in Spain, the incidence of mediation in society has been proven, both at Spanish and European level, after the approval of Directive 2008/52 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21May 2008, on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters. The consolidation of the mediation is still a pending task in Europe, it is necessary to foster the confidence of society in mediation as a formula for effective and quick management and resolution of the conflicts. This paper analyses the level of sufficiency of the necessary requirements to be a mediator in each of the twentyeight Member States and then, firstly, it verifies its possible link with the fact that the States have promoted or regulated the mediation and, secondly, it verifies its possible link with the number of annual mediations performed by them.

El dia 21 de gener, va tenir lloc a la Seu Central de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) una Jornada en ocasió del Dia Europeu de la Mediació, dedicada a la formació del mediador i estàndards de qualitat, temàtica vinculada estretament al Curs d'especialització en Mediació civil, mercantil i concursal, que ofereixen els Estudis de Dret i Ciència Política de la UOC. En la mateixa, es va convidar a reflexionar a rellevants experts i acadèmics del sector sobre la formació especialitzada d'aquests professionals, per tal de garantir certs estàndards de qualitat i el respecte dels principis que la Llei de mediació estableix en un sector en clar creixement i amb un gran potencial en l'àmbit jurídic. ; On 21 January, a Conference on the occasion of the European Day of Mediation dedicated to Mediation training and quality standards was held at the headquarters of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC); the subject was closely linked to the specialisation course on civil, commercial and receivership mediation offered by the Studies of Law and Politics of the UOC. Relevant experts and scholars in the sector were invited to reflect on the training of these professionals in order to ensure certain quality standards and respect for the principles that the Mediation Act establishes in a sector in clear growth and with great potential in the legal field. ; Reseña de la Jornada celebrada el día 21 de enero en la Sede Central de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), con ocasión del Día Europeo de la Mediación y dedicada a la formación del mediador y estándares de calidad, temática vinculada estrechamente al Curso de especialización en Mediación civil, mercantil y concursal, que ofrece los Estudios de Derecho y Ciencia Política de la UOC. En ella se invitó a reflexionar a relevantes expertos y académicos del sector acerca de la formación especializada de estos profesionales con objeto de garantizar ciertos estándares de calidad y el respeto de los principios que la Ley de mediación establece en un sector en claro crecimiento y con un gran potencial en el ámbito jurídico

Does working from home on a given day complicate or rather facilitate combining work and home roles that day, why and for whom? To answer these questions, we examined how a teleworking day affects daily work-to-home conflict and daily home-to-work conflict. Based on boundary theory, we expected these relationships to be mediated by daily role transitions and moderated by employees' preferences to protect their home(/work) domain from work(/home) interruptions. Hypotheses were tested through multilevel moderated mediation modeling using diary data collected during 14 consecutive workdays with 81 employees ( N = 678 data points). In line with our expectations, employees were found to make more work-to-home transitions (i.e. interruptions of work activities to deal with home demands during work hours) on teleworking days, which was related to lower work-to-home conflict but higher home-to-work conflict on these days. They also made more home-to-work transitions (i.e. interruptions of home activities to deal with work demands after hours) on teleworking days, which was related to more work-to-home conflict on these days. The latter effect was stronger for employees with a home protection preference. There was no moderating impact of work protection preference. Overall, employees experienced less work-to-home conflict but more home-to-work conflict on teleworking days compared to non-teleworking days.

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Prior research has predominantly centred on the negative conflicts of the interplay between work and family obligations, with limited attention paid to the concept of work–family enrichment, particularly within the context of social work. Furthermore, little is known about the underlying mechanisms through which work–family enrichment influences social workers' life meaning. To address these gaps, this study endeavours to scrutinise the serial mediation pathway involving self-efficacy and work engagement in elucidating the relationship between work–family enrichment and life meaning. A sample of 1,023 social workers (mean age = 36.24) is methodically selected through a multistage cluster random sampling approach in Hangzhou City, China. The empirical results provide evidence supporting a serial mediation path from self-efficacy with work engagement is posited to operate between work–family enrichment and life meaning. These findings hold both theoretical and practical significance, offering insights relevant to social workers, supervisors and their organisations.

AbstractTo explore the issue of defining the problem in family mediation, the authors compare rational and therapeutic models of mediation, focusing on their therapeutic family mediation (TFM) model and introducing and discussing the notion of the "mediatable frame." They offer case history material and discuss its implications for theory and practice.