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Twenty‐Five Years Ago and Twenty‐Five Years from Now: The Future of Public Dispute Resolution
Author(s) -
Susskind Lawrence
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
negotiation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1571-9979
pISSN - 0748-4526
DOI - 10.1111/j.1571-9979.2009.00245.x
Subject(s) - dispute resolution , alternative dispute resolution , political science , face (sociological concept) , dispute mechanism , field (mathematics) , democracy , law , public relations , sociology , social science , mathematics , politics , pure mathematics
Over the past twenty‐five years, public dispute resolution has emerged as an important area of practice — linked, in part, to ongoing efforts to promote deliberative democracy. As the field has evolved, however, the market for public dispute mediators has shifted. It is already possible to glimpse the further shifts and the new intellectual challenges likely to face the public dispute resolution field over the next twenty‐five years.