The Development Strategy for the Mediation Model with Effectiveness in the District Court of NakhonSawan

Abstract

  The objectives of this research are 1) Study the problems, obstacles and patterns of resolving conflicts in Nakhon Sawan District Court. 2) Determine the development strategy forms of resolving conflicts in Nakhon Sawan District Court. 3) Test the effectiveness of the development strategy forms of resolving conflicts in Nakhon Sawan District Court in order to reduce the case to Nakhon Sawan District Court. This is the Research and Development (R & D), which is an Action Research following the strategic plan that can be put into practice by selecting the group before and after the test area (One group pretest-posttest design). The population sample used in this study is related to the dispute in Nakorn Sawan District Court. A total of 176 people from designated groups purposively, the qualitative data analysis and analysis of statistical data, including the percentage values, the mean value and standard deviation, determination of the effectiveness of the training course (E1/E2), difference analysis using t-test and determine the statistical significance at the level of .05.
   According to the result of the research, it is found that 1) Nakhon Sawan District Court did not have a clear plan for the nomination process of the mediator selection. Moreover, the Court of Justice provides the mediator development process to train mediators with training in basic skills. However, it is found that the training course was weak in the curriculum and focuses too much on the theory but lack of continuity for the effectiveness of mediation. There are four measures for effectiveness of resolving conflicts. (1) Proportion of cases entering the mediation system is increasing every year. (2) The volume of cases successfully mediated the amount of logging that all mediation in civil cases to mediation success rate than criminal cases every year. (3) About the ratio of the amount of outstanding lawsuit on the case to the trial court, it is found that the amount of the outstanding lawsuit is not yet to achieve the goal in both civil and criminal cases. (4) About the standard of the mediation process, it is found that mediators have standard to follow procedures, but still lack the knowledge, skills and strategies in mediation. 2) Development Strategies of mediate on effective in the Nakhon Sawan District Court in clades three strategic issues: (1) Strategies in recruiting mediators (2) Strategies to build and develop the mediators and (3) Strategies in implementing leadership skills and cognitive knowledge 3) About the results of the trial strategy to develop a model for resolving conflicts effectively, it is found that training Courses "Skills for effective mediation" with equal efficiency(E1/E2 = 86.62/85.38), which is higher than the standard set 80/80 and the achievement before and after the experiment was effective statistically significant at the .05 level. 4) The assessment of Training Course, “Skills for effective mediation” by the mediators that haves been trained throughout the 12 weeks were: (1) To evaluate the effectiveness of resolving disputes by compromise, after receiving training, then led model by mediators to be included in the highest level. (2) The satisfaction of the parties to the practice mediation of reconciliation were at the highest level (3) About the hypothesis testing, it is found that achieving success through peaceful means and lower case in Nakhon Sawan District Court to improved statistically significant at .05. (4) The results to determine the strategic development of effective dispute resolution by experts found that the opinions of experts every strategy is appropriate, possible, accurate and can be utilized 100 percent and can be a form of mediation that is effective in Nakhon Sawan District Court. This can be put into practice when the results were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively which demonstrate the effectiveness, so its implementation would result in success to mediate the dispute in the Nakhon Sawan District Court and it is certain that this can be published and shared with those whose duties are involved in this area.