'Cross-cultural mediation can be very difficult for some practitioners and alternately be very beneficial to others.' Comment in the background of parties to international negotiations.

Cross-cultural Mediation can be very difficult for some practitioners and alternately be very beneficial to others. In Arbitration and Litigation, one party win over the other. But in Mediation, both parties can win. Therefore, the language and preferences of people depending upon the culture can influence the outcome of the Mediation. Intercultural Mediation necessitate a mediator to address cultural changes into consideration. For example: A practice can be acceptable in one culture and not acceptable in the other. In this situation, a mediator should address this difficulty and should try to bring parties to amicable resolution of Dispute. Language is also one barrier in any mediation process. It can be very easy to bring the parties to an agreement is their language are same. But, bringing the parties to an agreement when the other does not understand the language is a difficult task. Parties to international negotiations are also known as actors. They include states, non-state actors including growing number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), business firms, international organizations, and other institutions, who are drawn into the process because they are concerned in one way or another with the positive or negative values represented by the issues put on the agenda. The procedures and fora for modern international negotiation are numerous and varied. The increase in complexity year by year, and their forms and functions are evolving in adaptation to the changing needs of a rapidly expanding community of nations. Since the end of World War II, conference diplomacy in particular has significantly widened and diversified the approaches to international negotiation. It has also stimulated bilateral diplomacy. The fact that a party to a dispute or situation is now able to bring its cause to an international forum frequently operates to induce countries to take bilateral diplomacy much more seriously than they did before the era of continuous opportunities to resort to conference negotiation.