When conflict occurs, how to unknot what's blocking you up and reopen a way to the future?

Mediation is taking on a growing importance in our societies, but remains somewhat abstract as a concept. Aren't we likelier to call on a judge-like figure who hands down a verdict from outside the conflict, rather than that of a mediator who begins a process that can lead to its resolution or "unknotting"? François Jullien a series of concepts to shed light on the logic of mediation and how to go about it, inviting us to favor "com-possibility"—that is, a possibility open to both parties that opens up fruitful paths forward at the point of "compromise" between concession and half-measures.