Mediation

Roles: mediator, disputant, negotiation, neutral-party, agreement, communication-channel, compromise

Dispute resolution through a neutral intermediary who facilitates communication between parties that cannot or will not communicate directly. The mediator holds no authority to impose solutions but creates the conditions for agreement. This frame maps onto software patterns where a central coordinator manages interactions between components that would otherwise require complex many-to-many coupling.

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