La double vie de la médiation

Abstract

The Two lives of Mediation. France is currently the scene of a powerful process of institutionalization of mediation. Its flexibility and the increasingly ordered nature of community mediation could lead us to believe it is an osmotic movement between two functionally complementary models. But it is nothing of the kind. Analysis of the tensions between the two lives of médiation reveals the existence of an ideological conflict which has dynamic effects on society and on the judiciary System.