-Part I: Social Dynamics of Mediation.- Chapter I: How have Luhmann´s Social Sub-Systems Interacted in Early America in the Antebellum Period and Middle Age England.- Part II: Cultural Dynamics of Mediation.- Chapter II: Gauging the extent to which Culture shapes Mediation.- Chapter III: How Dispute Resolution Unfolds in Cultures of Honour, Cultures of Face and Cultures of Dignity.- Part III: Legal Dynamics of Mediation.- Chapter IV, Section I: Effective access to justice and formal access to justice.- Part IV: Cross-Border and Cross-Cultural Dynamics of Mediation.- Chapter V: Adaptive Mediation: why do mediation settings should be adapted to the intricacies of the case at hand, the disputants' cultural background, the disputants´ legal culture and the disputants 'modality of communication in cross-border and cross-cultural disputes.- Chapter VI: Long-Term Harmony-Equilibrium and Wealth Procedural Maximization.- Part V: How Should a Four-Tiered Model of Mediation: An Iure in Condendo Proposal.- Chapter VII: The importance of Behavioural Law and Economics to propel the Four-Tiered Model of Mediation.