Dispute Resolution

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

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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…

Dispute Resolution, Environmental disputes, Environmental Mediation, Future of mediation, India

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The judgment by the Uttarakhand High Court granting entities such as the River Ganga, River Yamuna and more recently the Yamnotri [1] Mohd.  Salim v. State of Uttrakhand and Ors, W.P.PIL No.  126 of 2014  and Gangotri glaciers [2] Lalit Miglani v. State of Uttarakhand, W.P.PIL No. 140 of 2015 the status of legal personality under…

ADR, Communication, Creativity, Dispute Resolution, Efficiency, Language, mediated settlement agreement, Negotiation, Stages of mediation, War Stories

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The parties left my office much later in the afternoon than I would have foreseen in the morning. As I was accompanying them to the exit, the package was already attending me on the front desk: It was the very typewriter I am now writing this blog on. As I was unpacking it, I was…

Confidentiality, Developing the Field, Dialogue, Dispute Resolution, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.)

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We agree sometimes to engage in a simple dialogue or in a mediated conversation with other people, but do we necessarily mean the same thing when thinking about dialogue? Are there significant process impacts induced by our perspectives and expectations? And could the dialogue process be more effective should these differences are clarified beforehand? What…

Brazil, Business, Creativity, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, Negotiation, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Online Mediation, Uncategorized

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In 2011, a computer gained fame as a celebrity. Its name was Watson*, of IBM. This was right after taking part in a very popular Q&A show on American TV (Jeopardy), in which Watson, with its ability to understand our language using only information recorded in its memory, and working offline, managed to successfully overcome…

Brexit, Conflict, Creativity, Dispute Resolution, Europe, Mediation and Society, Negotiation

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On the face of it clarity and certainty would always appear to be preferable to ambiguity, in order that people know where they stand and can plan and act accordingly. However, in a recent article Fintan O’Toole reflected on the position of Northern Ireland in the Brexit negotiations and concluded: “…stopping the violence meant creating…