The Mediation Process: Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict, 4th Edition

16Implementing and Monitoring Understandings and Agreements

a final and optional stage of mediation involves disputants com­­pleting procedural closure by designing and implementing monitoring mechanisms; identifying and developing dispute resolution procedures to handle any potential future differences or conflicts that may arise; and implementing their substantive agreement. This stage is optional because some understandings and agreements may have been “self-executing” in that disputing parties have completed all necessary promises and exchanges at the end of the last stage of mediation, and no additional ones are required in the future to accomplish substantive or procedural closure.

Procedural Closure, Implementation, and Monitoring

Implementation ...