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By Jonathan CraneIn her most recent book, The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue, Deborah Tannen asserts that our entire society...
By Barbara StarkThese are the standards of practice that were promulgated by two national/international associations of family and divorce mediators, the Academy...
By AFCC SalemPermission to publish by Eugene Register Guard and Author September 26, 1998 We've lost a peacemaker. Not the headline-making, Nobel...
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