论文化差异在国际商事调解中的表现及影响

文化差异可能存在于国际商事调解的全过程.为了探究文化差异在国际商事调解中的表现及影响,采用比较研究的方法,主要通过研究东西方文化在调解中的差异得出以下结论:受调解中当事人主导特性的影响,文化差异影响到国际商事调解中当事人对争议的态度、争议解决的价值取向、面子观、思维和决策模式、表达利益要求的方式、调解中的沟通模式等各个方面,它会给国际商事调解造成很大障碍,所以应妥善处理国际商事调解中存在的文化差异.

Influence of cultural differences on international commercial mediation

Cultural difference may be very common in the process of international commercial mediation due to the party - oriented character of mediation procedure. By comparing between the eastern and western cultures during the process of international commercial mediation, the cultural differences in international commercial mediation was fo-cused; cultural difference may influence the whole process of each mediation process by the parties' different views of dispute, different motivation to join in the procedure, different needs for "face", different ways of decision -making and various ways of expressing their standpoints, etc. All these differences may prevent the mediation process from going forward. Whether a mediation agreement will come out depend, in some degree, on how the me-diators would deal with the cultural differences in the whole process.