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Interpretations Across Cases: The Overarching Analysis

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Having provided a detailed analysis of each participant’s mediation-related experiences as they occur following the requirements of phenomenology and idiography, this chapter takes the analysis to a deeper level through the exploration of interpretations across cases. Importantly, the analysis not only presents the commonalities across cases but also variations of each common theme amongst the participants. The analysis explores stress as participants’ primary experience in conflict, identifying manifestations of ‘conflict as a force’ and mediation’s potential to address stress. Participants’ perceptions of the importance of the mediator’s caring and understanding stance is drawn out in the process of relationship building and settlement. The importance of individual intake conversations that address issues of substance are identified as one of the mediator’s primary tools. Participants’ understandings of mediation as a process of ‘learning’ resulting in relationships of different quality is explored.

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