International Mediation

Appointment of Mediators, Cooperation, cross-border mediation, Decision making, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, Governments/Public Sector, International Conciliation, International Mediation, Negotiation, peace negotiations, Promoting Mediation, Public Policy, Scotland, Uncategorized

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Effective inter-governmental relations among the constituent parts of the United Kingdom are essential in an era of increased devolution of powers, post-Brexit allocation of responsibility and contested narratives about the future of the (uncodified) UK constitution. Background One of the rather depressing aspects of the constitutional impasse in the UK is that inter-governmental relations (IGR)…

ADR, ADR Agreements, ADR Clauses, Combined Clauses, Commercial Mediation, Conflict, Dispute Resolution Clause, Enforcement of a Mediation Clause, Enforcement of an ADR Clause, International Mediation, Legal Issues, Med-Arb Clauses, Pre-arbitration Dispute Settlement Procedures, Uncategorized

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by Dr. Michael Komuczky, attorney at law at Lansky, Ganzger, Goeth, Frankl + Partner (Vienna, Austria), and Sima Ghaffari, ICC YAF Representative and associate at Ferdowsi Legal (Tehran, Iran) There has been a significant increase in the debate on multi-tiered or hybrid dispute resolution clauses, as can be seen in this Blog or the Kluwer…

International Mediation, Legislation, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Ukraine

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It has taken a lot of time and effort for the Ukrainian mediation community to enact the law on mediation (the “Law”). On 16 November 2021, the Ukrainian Parliament finally passed it. This development opens up a new chapter and further prospects for the growth of mediation practice in Ukraine. Congratulations to all my Ukrainian…

ICSID, International Mediation

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This series of blogs posts explores investment mediation from a variety of angles. In this second installment, we focus on what mediation is—and how it works—in the context of investment disputes.  In part one, we explore how to determine whether mediation is an appropriate option for resolving an investment dispute, while part three outlines the…

Business, Causes of Conflict, Commercial Mediation, Communication, Conflict, conlfict coaching, Cooperation, Dialogue, Dispute Resolution, Ethics, Europe, Experience, Flexibility, Future of mediation, International Mediation, Mediation, Mindset, Uncategorized

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard (PON) sends to subscribers a daily blogpost of interesting negotiation thoughts and analyses. It regularly visits the negotiation styles of world leaders with the idea that ‘by studying the negotiation styles of famous leaders, we can identify what to emulate and what to abandon’. Unsurprisingly it has shone a…

International Mediation, Mediation Practice

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Professor A.C. Grayling, an Oxford don, has recently published The Frontiers of Knowledge.[1] According to Professor Grayling, the more humankind knows, the more we realise the limits of our knowledge. Grayling identifies twelve problems confronting scientific enquiry which he says stand in the way of increased knowledge. These problems can equally apply, in their own…

Conflict, Cooperation, crisis negotiatons, Dialogue, Economics, Game Theory, Governments/Public Sector, International Mediation, Mediation and Society, Public Policy, Uncategorized

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“Humanity has outsmarted itself. With its ingenuity, this tribal ape has created a world its tribalism can’t manage. We know this…But the knowledge is not enough.” So began Martin Wolf in a recent article in the Financial Times following a meeting of the finance ministers of the G20 – one of the institutions created to improve…

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Mr. Jawad has been a mediator since 2007 and a passionate promoter of mediation in India from its earliest days. Jawad works as a mediator and trainer with the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee of the Supreme Court of India and is a global faculty with ADR ODR International UK. He is a SIMI accredited…

ADR, Community Mediation, Developing the Field, International commercial mediation, Mediation Practice, Mediation Training, Promoting Mediation

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For me, one of the benefits of our new online world has been an increase in opportunities to get to work with people over distance, without having to travel that distance. While I have not physically left an area within a radius of some 60 kilometres since early 2020, I feel connected around the world,…

ADR, Arbitration, cross-border mediation, ICSID, International commercial mediation, Investor-state mediation, Reform, SIDRA Survey, Singapore Convention on Mediation, UNCITRAL

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Slowly but surely the dispute resolution landscape is shifting for investment related disputes. More than half the respondents to the International Dispute Resolution Survey published by the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA) last year indicated that they have been involved in an investor-state dispute between 2016 and 2018. And, it is of course no…