The Self-Determination Principle and the Value of Human Agency with Professor Baruch Bush

The Self-Determination Principle and the Value of Human Agency 

with Professor Baruch Bush

In this presentation, Prof. Bush will explore the philosophical bases for regarding party self-determination as fundamental to the mediation process – as commonly stated in mediator ethics codes. The meaning and significance of agency in human life will be discussed.  Then, examples of how mediator respect for party self-determination affects human agency, for good and for ill, will be offered from actual practice and from the mediation literature.  Participants are invited to engage in active discussion of the topic.

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