%0 Journal Article %T THE SCIENCE OF COMMUNICATION AND NEGOTIATION IN MEDIATION %A ELENA NEDELCU %J Challenges of the Knowledge Society %D 2011 %I Nicolae Titulescu University of Bucharest %X The present study proposes to contribute in clarifying a subject of great actuality and social importance: why does the contemporary society need such mediation and mediators and what are the psycho-social premises of making the process of mediaton more efficient. In the first part, this study keeps the track of identifying the connections and the distinctions between communication-negotiation and mediation. The intercession carries forward with the analysis of the communicational and negotiative abilities of the mediator ¨C premises of efficient mediation. The final part consists in an argument towards the imperative need of mediation felt by the contemporary society at all its levels. %K communication %K negotiation %K mediation %U http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2011_articles/index.php?dir=04_mediation%2F&download=cks_2011_mediation_art_008.pdf