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Cross-cultural, General, International Mediation, Mediation Practice, Mediation Users/Clients, Mediators’ Conduct, Practical Challenges for Mediators

(National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law)/ /Leave a comment

I just returned from (mostly) sunny Brisbane, Australia running a pilot program (5 to 6 September 2011) on intercultural mediation competencies for the International Mediation Institute before speaking at LEADR’s conference “kon gres” (7 to 9 September 2011). It was an honour to be training with Professor Hal Abramson (Touro Law School) and Ms. Gigi…

ADR, Bias, Developing the Field, Ethics, General, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Lawyers, Lawyers and Psychologists, Mediation Practice

(University of Strathclyde)/ /7 Comments

Most mediators are pragmatists. This may not be our reputation, but in reality we wrestle daily with practical matters such as who will do what, when they will do it and how much it will cost. I once taught mediation to a group of therapists. Their ‘soft’ skills (this doesn’t mean easy) were fantastic, actively…

General, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.)

(Ministry of Justice, Government of the Republic of Slovenia)/ /Leave a comment

Disputes are like weddings or funerals: they require a serious resolution procedure. As such, mediation procedures have rapidly spread throughout the world. They travel without passport. The rapid evolution of mediation started as a court-annexed or connected procedure, and caused a revolution in the dispute system design of modern civil justice. A multi-door courthouse with…

Due Process, General, Humorous Pieces, Mediation Practice, Practical Challenges for Mediators

(Brick Court Chambers / Clifton Chambers)/ /Leave a comment

In my previous life as a blogger, I wrote about things that jumped up and hit me that day, that week, that month – so it is that I report here in my very first post at this most promising blog, that I was not so much hit but lynched when training aspiring mediators here…

General, Humorous Pieces

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The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature was Edith Wharton in 1921, for her novel An Age of Innocence. Addressing what is, and is not, classic, Wharton wrote: A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions … It is classic because of a certain…