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Commercial Mediation, Decision making, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, Joint Sessions, Lawyers, lawyers in mediation, mediated settlement agreement, Mediation Agreement, Mediation Lawyering, Mediation Outcomes, Mediation Practice, mediation process, Mediators’ Conduct, Negotiation, Promoting Mediation, Scotland, Settlement Agreements, shuttle mediation, Stages of mediation, Success in mediation, Tips, Transformation, Understanding mediation

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A whole day of mediation without a “joint meeting”. The only time the lawyers met was to begin drafting the settlement agreement. The experts played no part. The day before, the principals had exchanged correspondence deprecating perceived personal insults directed at professional advisers which, it was felt, had damaged reputations. This was a long-running commercial…

ADR, Arbitration, Commercial Mediation, Corporate Counsel's View, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, Global Pound Conference Series 2016-17, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Research

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In the forty years since new visions and challenges for the administration of American justice were offered at the 1976 Pound Conference, a Quiet Revolution has altered the landscape of public and private dispute resolution around the world. (See Living the Dream of ADR). Recently, a series of day-long meetings styled as the Global Pound…

ADR, Dispute Resolution, Promoting Mediation, Public Policy, Reform, Research, Ukraine

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During the last twenty years, mediation has spread around the world with an amazing speed, resulting in what was called a ‘global ADR revolution’. Furthermore, mediation has become a conventional part of the court reform projects supported by international donor organizations within democracy aid programmes in developing and transitional countries all over the world. However,…

Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, General, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.)

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Writer’s note: I was interviewed by the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA) for my perspectives on Dispute Resolution. This was published as a blog entry on 2 October 2017 on the SIDRA website. For my entry this month, I would like to reproduce that interview here. I would like to thank SIDRA for giving…

Business, Decision making, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, Negotiation, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Online Mediation

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unquestionable one of the hottest topics at the moment. At the 2017 International Bar Association Annual Congress, that has just ended in Australia, one of the most recurrent and discussed question was: Will Artificial Intelligence ever be able to replace lawyers or the Law practice as we currently know ? Before…

Community Mediation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Mediation and Society, Mediation Users/Clients, Negotiation, Neuroscience, Promoting Mediation, Public Policy, Reform, Scotland

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So much to blog about this month. We had a really great time in Edinburgh with Ken Cloke recently. Ken kindly agreed to be our first Patron for Collaborative Scotland.  We held an event in the Scottish Parliament for leaders of civic Scotland and a number of members of the Scottish Parliament, many of whom,…

Commercial Mediation, Dispute Resolution, Legislation, Mediation Practice, Vietnam

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1. Introduction Although private commercial mediation has been offered in Vietnam for around ten years,[1] Some arbitration centres in Vietnam introduced and offered private commercial mediation since 2007 the Vietnamese Government’s enactment of Decree 22/2017/NĐ-CP on 24 February 2017 on Commercial Mediation (hereinafter Decree 22) has been significantly meaningful. Firstly, the Decree 22 has steadily…

Causes of Conflict, Communication, Conflict, Dispute Resolution, General, Perception, Practical Challenges for Mediators, Skills

(National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law)/ /2 Comments

I was reflecting the other day that in the 25 years that I have been conducting workshops in Negotiation, Mediation and other related areas, most conflict resolution workshops don’t seem to pay a lot of attention to personality preferences and how these can contribute towards conflict. I recently ran a workshop for the Law Society…

Cognitive Bias, Communication, Conflict, Decision making, Dialogue, Dispute Resolution, Mediation Practice, Negotiation, Neuroscience

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The story of the blindfolded men who each approach an elephant from different angles (at the tusk it’s described as a spear, at the tail a rope, at the leg a tree etc.) is a good example of how multiple truths can exist depending on the perspective you take. Different views can often be the…

ADR, Conciliation, Consumer conciliation, Dispute Resolution, European Law

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Greg Bond: Tell me about your organisation. Edgar Isermann: The Conciliation Body for Public Transport (söp) was founded in 2009, as a result of EU regulations on passenger rights, and also a general need to strengthen ADR provisions. The public transportation companies gradually realised that they would have to join the scheme. Travelers whose complaints…