This seems sound. During mediation in attempts to compromise often parties will admit hastyness or wrong doing and that not ought to be thrown up them later.
Fred
From: Anthere anthere8@yahoo.com Reply-To: anthere8@yahoo.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:23:26 +0100 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Mr. Natural Health has refused mediation with the community
The first provision we can offer is about the confidentiality of everything that might be said during the mediation. It is very important to stress out that point. Nothing that will be said should left the small circles of mediators (unless the disputants agree to do so); and if one mediator talks in details to another about the case, it should be said clearly to the disputants.
Mostly, what is said must not be used afterwards against the person; ie it must not be revealed to the arbitration commitee; nor used against the disputant in case of later conflicts. (note that, de facto, it is best for the mediator never to get into conflict with that editor afterwards, temptation could be high :-)).
If one of the disputant fear he might be participating in a fair system, perhaps would it be for him to choose a silent overseer ?
What else are you thinking of Ec ?