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By: Paula Drouin, Founder and Director ADR International Group Inc. and ADR Learning Institute I have been mediating, facilitating, and delivering Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) training for more than twenty-seven years and have learned Interest-based, Narrative, Transformative, and the Evaluative mediation models, and have facilitated restorative justice dialogue and peacemaking circles. One would think that because mediators work in a field that promotes collaboration, we would easily embrace all the ways to bring people in conflict together. There are times that happens and other times when those doing mediation can become very positional about which ADR process is the best. [...]