Adjudication, arbitration, conciliation, litigation, and other related concepts
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The following concepts that are close to the concept of "mediation" need to be distinguished from it. The following are extracts form the greatest authority in the English language, Webster . (Webster 's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged. Encyclopaedia Britannica London, Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1993.) However, in Webster every headword has many sub-concepts. I have reproduced only those which are closest to our topic. adjudicate ... 1 b: to decide (as an interlocutory matter) arising prior to a final decision (p. 27) adjudication ... 2: a determination, a decision, or sentence esp. without imputation of guilt (p. 27) arbitration: the act of arbitrating; esp: the hearing and determination of a case between parties in controversy by a person or persons chosen by the parties or appointed under statutory authority instead of by a judicial tribunal provided by law (p. 110) arbitrator: ... 1: a person or one of two or more persons chosen to settle by arbitration the differences between two parties in controversy: ... distinguished from mediator 2 :. one with absolute power of deciding (p. 110) litigation ... 3 : a controversy involving adverse parties before an executive governmental agency having quasi-judicial powers and employing quasi-judicials procedures (p. 1322) mediate ... 2 a : to interpose between parties or to reconcile them or to interpret them to each other <l want to mediate between the two of you now, because if this breach continues it will be the ruin of us all]--Robert Graves> b to negotiate a compromise of hostile or incompatible viewpoints, demands, or attitudes : reconcile differences <... between extreme points of view--C. I. Glicksberg> .. 1 a : to bring about by intervention between conflicting parties : effect by action as an intermediary (p. 1402) mediator ... 1 a ... : one that mediates between parties at variance to reconcile them (p. 1402) In a more popular setting there are other concepts: Process controller: Third party controls process but not contents. Process provider, facilitator: Third party brings the conflict parties together providing facilities,
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