Cross-cultural

Commercial Mediation, cross-border mediation, Cross-cultural, Dispute Resolution, Enforcement, International Mediation, mediated settlement agreement

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Settlement agreements reached through mediation are mere contracts and not court decisions. As such, and in the absence of a statutory framework, enforcement of mediated settlements can only be carried out voluntarily by the parties. Failing which, the aggrieved party must enter into a court or arbitral process through which the defaulting party is compelled…

Appointment of Mediators, COVID-19, cross-border mediation, Cross-cultural, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Economics, Efficiency, Email, Future of mediation, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), International commercial mediation, Japan, Legal Issues, mediated settlement agreement, Mediation Practice, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Online Mediation, Singapore, Singapore Convention on Mediation

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Hot off the heels of the Singapore Convention, The Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) and the Japan International Mediation Center (JIMC) on 12 September 2020 signed a Memorandum of Understanding to operate a joint protocol that provides cross-border businesses, including companies along the Singapore-Japan corridor, with an economical, expedited and effective route for resolving commercial…

Appointment of Mediators, Causes of Conflict, Cross-cultural, Dialogue, Framing, insider and outsider mediators

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“For as long as our records go back, we have held these two things dear, landscape and memory. Each infuses us with a different kind of life. The one feeds us, figuratively and literally. The other protects us from lies and tyranny. To keep landscapes intact and the memory of them, our history in them,…

Apologies, Cross-cultural, Dialogue

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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”. Dr Martin Luther King, 1956 Readers from New Zealand who are of a certain age will remember the headline corporate promise that accompanied advertisements for the home appliances company, LV Martin & Son: “It’s the putting it right that counts.” Such was…

Cross-cultural, Dialogue, International Mediation, Mediation and Society, Mediation Practice, Personal Development, Philosophy, Reflective Practice, Stories, Transformation

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A couple of weeks ago I came across a poem by the Native American writer Joy Harjo, entitled “Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.” The title made me curious, as might be expected for a mediator. You can find the whole poem online on the Poetry Foundation website, or you can buy the book of poems…

Communication, Cross-cultural, Dialogue, Negotiation, Practical Challenges for Mediators

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“Across the great divide, Just grab your hat and take that ride” – The Band, 1969 (written by Robbie Robertson) We have all had those conversations or exchanges after which we’ve wished we had thought of a further point to make, a rebuttal of the other’s claim we only later thought of, a way of…

Communication, Conventional wisdom, Cross-cultural, Developing the Field, mediation process, Online Mediation, Personal Development

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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language; And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” T S Eliot, The Four Quartets, “Little Gidding” “Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of…

Cognitive Bias, Communication, Cross-cultural, Dialogue, Language, Practical Challenges for Mediators

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“Within a multicultural democracy, debate within our own groups and communities must always be balanced by constructive engagement with members of other groups and communities. Citizens of a multicultural democracy must learn how to speak and be heard across difference . . . “ Alison Jaggar, “Multicultural Democracy,” Jnl of Political Philosophy, 7, No. 3,…

Cross-cultural, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Personal Development, Promoting Mediation, Skills, Training

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In the centre of Berlin opposite the State Opera House, there is a large building in Baroque style that was originally built as the Prussian Royal Library in the late eighteenth century, and came to be called the Old Library once the new Prussian State Library was established in the early twentieth century. The words…

Communication, Cross-cultural, Dialogue, Framing, General, Language

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(This post is being republished because of technical problems when it was first published). I want to use this month’s blog to riff off Greg Bond’s recent insightful blog, because he’s touched on core issues of language, making sense and personal reflection. That post arrived almost in the wake of an email quoting jazz pianist…