Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This project examines the development and deployment of mediation frameworks in Canada with the goal of advocating for the restoration of dispute resolution as the site of democratic politics. In doing so we enlist the work of Petyr Kropotkin's theory of Mutual Aid and a brief history of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Canada to identify procedural differences in mediation… more Full Text: RE-IMAGINING THE LAW OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE DEMOCRATIC POTENTIAL OF ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND MEDIATION BASED UPON THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS OF JACQUES RANCIÈRE AND HANNAH ARENDT A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate …