History of Mediation in the world
The history of mediation goes back to Ancient Greece, where village elders used to mediate local disputes between the villagers. The activity of mediation appeared in very ancient times. The practice developed in Ancient Greece (which knew the non-marital mediator as a proxenetas ), then in Roman civilization . ( Roman law , starting from Justinian 's Digest of 530–533 CE) recognized mediation. The Romans called mediators by a variety of names, including internuncius , medium , intercessor , philantropus , interpolator , conciliator , interlocutor , interpres , and finally mediator . [ citation needed ] Now mediation is a form a professional service, and mediators are professionally trained for mediation. In the UK mediation has seen a rise as a service since the Children and Families Act 2014 made it compulsory for separating couples to go through a Mediation...
