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Conciliation


n.

[L. conciliatio.]
The act or process of conciliating; the state of being conciliated.

The house has gone further; it has declared conciliation admissible previous to any submission on the part of America.
Burke.

 
 
Business Dictionary: Conciliation

In labor disputes, attempt to persuade management and labor to meet and discuss their differences. The purpose of conciliation is to reconcile disputing parties, and its effectiveness results from the likelihood that if the parties can be persuaded to meet, they might find a resolution of their dispute.

 
Thesaurus: conciliation

noun

    A reestablishment of friendship or harmony: rapprochement, reconcilement, reconciliation. See love/hatred.

 
Antonyms: conciliation

n

Definition: appeasement
Antonyms: provocation


 
Law Encyclopedia: Conciliation
This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

The process of adjusting or settling disputes in a friendly manner through extrajudicial means. Conciliation means bringing two opposing sides together to reach a compromise in an attempt to avoid taking a case to trial. Arbitration, in contrast, is a contractual remedy used to settle disputes out of court. In arbitration the two parties in controversy agree in advance to abide by the decision made by a third party called in as a mediator, whereas conciliation is less structured.

Conciliation is used in labor disputes before arbitration and may also take place in several areas of the law. A court of conciliation is one that suggests the manner in which two opposing parties may avoid trial by proposing mutually acceptable terms. In the past, some states have had bureaus of conciliation for use in divorce proceedings.

The federal government has established the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, an independent department devoted to settling labor disputes by conciliation and mediation, or settlement of disputes through the intervention of a neutral party.

See: alternative dispute resolution.

 
Wikipedia: conciliation


Conciliation is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process whereby the parties to a dispute (including future interest disputes) agree to utilize the services of a conciliator, who then meets with the parties separately in an attempt to resolve their differences. Conciliation differs from arbitration in that the conciliation process, in and of itself, has no legal standing, and the conciliator usually has no authority to seek evidence or call witnesses, usually writes no decision, and makes no award. Conciliation differs from mediation in that the main goal is to conciliate, most of the time by seeking concessions. In mediation, the mediator tries to guide the discussion in a way that optimizes parties needs, takes feelings into account and reframes representations.

In conciliation the parties seldom, if ever, actually face each other across the table in the presence of the conciliator. (This latter difference can be regarded as one of species to genus. Most practicing mediators refer to the practice of meeting with the parties separately as "caucusing" and would regard conciliation as a specific type or form of mediation practice -- "shuttle diplomacy" -- that relies exclusively on caucusing. All the other features of conciliation are found in mediation as well.)

If the conciliator is successful in negotiating an understanding between the parties, said understanding is almost always committed to writing (usually with the assistance of legal counsel) and signed by the parties, at which time it becomes a legally binding contract and falls under contract law.

Recent studies in the processes of negotiation have indicated the effectiveness of a technique that deserves mention here. A conciliator assists each of the parties to independently develop a list of all of their objectives (the outcomes which they desire to obtain from the conciliation). The conciliator then has each of the parties separately prioritize their own list from most to least important. She then goes back and forth between the parties and encourages them to "give" on the objectives one at a time, starting with the least important and working toward the most important for each party in turn. The parties rarely place the same priorities on all objectives, and usually have some objectives that are not on the list compiled by parties on the other side. Thus the conciliator can quickly build a string of successes and help the parties create an atmosphere of trust which the conciliator can continue to develop.

Most successful conciliators are highly skilled negotiators. Some conciliators operate under the auspices of any one of several non-governmental entities, and for governmental agencies such as the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.


 
Translations: Translations for: Conciliation

Dansk (Danish)
n. - forsoning, mægling

Nederlands (Dutch)
verzoening

Français (French)
n. - conciliation

Deutsch (German)
n. - Besänftigung, Versöhnung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - συμβιβασμός, συμφιλίωση, συνδιαλλαγή

Italiano (Italian)
conciliazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - conciliação (f)

Русский (Russian)
умиротворение

Español (Spanish)
n. - conciliación

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förlikning, försonlighet

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
说服, 和好, 安抚, 抚慰, 调解

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 說服, 和好, 安撫, 撫慰, 調解

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 회유, 조정

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - なだめること, 調停, 和解, なだめ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) توفيق, مصالحه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮פיוס, תיווך, פשרה, הרגעה‬


 
 

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