Glossary
- Multipartiality
A principle of mediation that defines a particular mode of engagement with conflict parties or key stakeholders based on understanding and identifying with a diversity of opposing positions and standpoints, without seeming to favour one of these above the other. Some mediators strictly adhere to this principle because it helps them to interact with all of the conflict parties without being seen by one or more of them as partisan, one-sided or having uneven levels of commitment. Multipartiality is distinct from neutrality and impartiality.