“Rather than proclaim abstract universal principles, or assert the priority of liberty over equality, or impose one approach or set of ideas on both parties equally, as the law does, mediation seeks to resolve the practical issues that encourage each side to believe that what is happening is unjust, and allows the parties to decide for themselves what is fair or just, using procedures that invite everyone who is touched by the problem to come to the table and collaboratively negotiate how it should be solved, and in this way, preserves both liberty and equality as interconnected aspects of justice.”

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