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the referee who never blows a whistle, just lets both sides hear themselves think.
means A neutral third party who helps two disputing sides communicate and reach their own agreement, without imposing a decision.
from From Latin mediare, 'to be in the middle,' built on medius, 'middle' — the same root that gives us 'medium,' 'median,' and 'mediocre.' A mediator is literally the one who stands in the middle, and Latin medius traces back further to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'middle' that also fathered English 'mid' and 'midst.' The word arrived in English through Old French in the medieval period.
- win rate
- Mediated disputes settle around 80 percent of the time
- no verdict
- They decide nothing, yet end everything
- ancient gig
- Roman law recognized mediators over two thousand years ago
- chemistry too
- In biology, a mediator molecule passes signals between cells
- silence weapon
- Strategic pauses pressure parties into making the first offer
jimmy carter — former us president who mediated israeli-egyptian peace at camp david in 1978
kofi annan — un secretary-general who mediated conflicts in syria, kenya, and cyprus from 1997-2006
ban ki-moon — un secretary-general who mediated north-south korea tensions and myanmar's political crisis 2007-2016