Editing Mediation (section)

== History ==
The activity of mediation appeared in ancient times. The practice developed in [[Ancient Greece]] which knew the non-marital mediator as a ''proxenetas''(προ - pro = before + ξενος - xenos =strangers), then in [[Rome|Roman]] [[civilization]]. ([[Roman law]], starting from [[Justinian I|Justinian]]'s ''Digest'' of 530–533 CE) recognized mediation. The Romans called mediators by a variety of names, including ''internuncius'', ''medium'', ''intercessor'', ''philantropus'', ''interpolator'', ''conciliator'', ''interlocutor'', ''interpres'', and finally ''mediator''.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}

Following the war against Rome, the [[Kingdom of Kush|Kushites]] sent mediators to [[Augustus]], who was in Samos, and in the year 21/20 BC, a peace treaty was concluded.<ref>O'Grady 79–88</ref><ref name="Jaques2007">{{cite book|last=Jaques|first=Tony |title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC&pg=PA713|volume=F-O|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=978-0-313-33538-9|pages=713–}}</ref><ref name="Robinson1928">{{cite journal|last1=Robinson|first1=Arthur E.|title=The Arab Dynasty of Dar for (Darfur) Part II|journal=[[African Affairs]]|volume=XXVIII|issue=CIX|year=1928|pages=55–67|issn=1468-2621|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a100377}}</ref>

Now mediation is a form of professional service, and mediators are professionally trained for mediation.