Causes of Conflict, Commercial Mediation, Communication, Conflict, Decision making, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Future of mediation, General, Governments/Public Sector, Impasse, Interests, Mediation Practice, Negotiation, Practical Challenges for Mediators, Public Policy, Scotland, Transformation, Uncategorized

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John Nash died this week, in a tragic car accident. John Nash was the Nobel-prize winning mathematician whose theory of non-cooperative games published in 1950 has been described as one of the top ten ideas in economics in the 20th century. His theory introduced and explored the concept of what is known as Nash equilibrium….

General, India

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It is quite well recognized that India is not particularly a mediation-friendly country, and the corporate-legal community is yet to internalise commercial mediation as an alternate for dispute resolution. Despite the establishment of civil mediation centres across certain High Courts of the country, organised mediation has largely remained obscure in its application for larger disputes….

Communication, Decision making, Developing the Field, Ethics, mediation as a career, Mediation Practice, Understanding mediation

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“Recall that ‘ethics’ and ‘morals’ have different meanings. Morality is part of ethics, but ethics is a larger and more inclusive notion. Ethics is a response to the question, ‘What sort of a person should I be and how should I live my life?’ while morality is an answer to the question, ‘What are my…

ADR, Ireland, Lawyers, mediation as a career, Mediation Practice, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Negotiation

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Within this blog, we would like to familiarise you with the procedure of drafting and creating a complex mediation curriculum both from the inside and outside. Martin Svatos is one of the founders of this curriculum at the Charles University in Prague, and Sabine Walsh has accepted the invitation to give the final speech within…

Arbitration, Dispute Resolution, International Mediation, Litigation, Uncategorized

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In April 1976, an event now known as the Pound Conference ignited modern ADR in the USA, launching discussion of what may have become the “greatest reform in the history of the country’s judicial system”.1 Forty years later, all stakeholders in the dispute prevention and resolution fields around the world are being invited to participate…

Book Review, Future of mediation, General, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), History of mediation, Singapore

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I’d like to take this month’s entry to briefly review a book that was launched in Singapore in March 2015. The book is Mediation in Singapore: A Practical Guide published by Sweet & Maxwell. The editors of this book are Danny McFadden and George Lim (Senior Counsel) and boasts an impressive list of contributors ranging…

Court Procedure and Litigation, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Domestic Courts, Due Process, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Legal Issues, Mediation Reforms (Legislation, etc.), Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), Opt-Out, Public Policy, Reform, Technology, Uncategorized

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‘Justice’, an “all-party law reform and human rights organisation working to strengthen the justice system” launched a new report on April 23rd entitled ‘DELIVERING JUSTICE IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY’. The report could be described as a plan to deliver justice despite the cuts. It proposes a transformation of the court system in England and…

Communication, Conflict, Decision making, Developing the Field, Memory and Illusions, Negotiation, Neuroscience, short term memory, Skills, Tips

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Is it true that as we get older, we tend to forget things more easily? Or is it that some things are just less important? As negotiators and mediators, we often deal with complex layers of information that appear all too much for any one person to recall. So we enter the negotiation room burdened…

Accreditation, ADR, Communication, Dispute Resolution, Fear, Future of mediation, Growth of the Field (Challenges, New Sectors, etc.), Instinct, Mentoring, Social intelligence, Success in mediation, Young Mediators

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Young Mediators Initiative (YMI)

I was twenty-five years old when I joined Young Mediators’ Initiative (YMI) and first participated at the Andalusian System for Labour Conflict Resolution (S.E.R.C.L.A) as an official mediator. At SERCLA, we normally have an average of ten people at the mediation table. Sometimes, not only am I by far the youngest person in the mediation…

General, Legal Practice, Legislation, Public Policy, Regulation

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In the late 90’s in Brazil, a sudden interest in Mediation started to develop under the influence of the newly enacted Argentinean legislation (1995). Unfortunately, just until a few years ago, mediation had grown at a very slow pace, with a few advocates effortlessly lobbying for its widespread implementation and for a local legislation. Finally,…