Introduction Of Social Work In The People’s Mediation

The people’s mediation system is an important part of China’s dispute resolution system.For a long time, the people’s mediation plays an important role in the grass-roots level.However, there are some problems on it’s autonomy, organization, work method andmediator’s quality. With the transformation of the society, the people’s mediation systemencountered the inadaptation to the social reality. These reasons lead to the failure of thepeople’s mediation system in some aspects. Social work grew out of the modern industrysociety. It’s aim is to help people and the society solving problems. It also based on thegrass-roots level society,focusing on the improvement of social relationship. Both the people’smediation and the social work are the new type of social management. There are similaritiesbetween them such as the value goal, operation, principles and functions. And the advancedtheory and method of social work can also be applied to the people’s mediation.Social work’sdevelopment in China started relatively late. It’s localization is still under exploration. But it’sdevelopment is now supported by government in policy and funds. For these reasons, theintroduction of social work may have positive effects on the perfection of the people’smediation. In recent years, the try of introducing social work into the people’s mediation haveemerged in practice.This paper introduced the problems that the people’s mediation system faced and thesocial conditions that lead to these problems, the adaption of social work to these socialconditions. After that this paper discussed the reason and possibility of introducing socialwork into the people’s mediation. At the same time,by presenting a brief introduction on thecurrent practice and analyzing the deficiency in practice, discussed the approach forimprovement.