%0 Book %A Dominic Busch %A Claude-Hélène Mayer %A Christian Boness %D 2010 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %T International and Regional Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Mediation %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1107355 %X Intercultural and cross-cultural mediation in the Western world has emerged as an object of research that has attracted a growing attention over the past thirty years. Meanwhile, static and essentialist notions of culture in communication have been challenged by dynamic and constructivist approaches taking culture as a flux that is changing permanently. The contributions in this book adopt these tendencies to cross-cultural mediation research: They center around the question if and in what ways people from different cultural groups have constructed their own notions of how conflict mediation in cross-cultural settings should be dealt with in particular. In other words: Are there different ways of handling cross-cultural conflict that may be termed as culture-specific? The contributions in this volume reveal some insights to the high complexity of this question. %K Conflict Mediation, Emic Approaches to Mediation Research, Intercultural Communication %G English