Step-In to Improvisational Negotiation
First Mediation Corporation The Problem with Conventional Wisdom in Negotiation Conventional wisdom in negotiation provides specific responses to stimuli that are categorized as competitive or...
View ArticleThe Zen of Mentoring: Taking the Less Traveled Path to Success
First Mediation Corporation The following was written by my colleague and friend, Mariam Zadeh, following her transition as a 9/11 survivor to becoming a private mediator in Los Angeles: One who...
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Some Blue Sky Thinking on Managing Family Conflict
Sabine Walsh Mediation Armed with coloured paper, crayons and scissors, myself and nine other mediators spent a good portion of last Friday designing our “ideal” family conflict resolution service....
View ArticleIn Youth We Trust
K&L Gates LLP On the day when the finals of the world’s largest ADR student competition starts, I could not think of any better topic for my blog posting. I have been teaching and coaching students...
View ArticleMulticulturalism in Practice
Centre for Dispute Resolution, Singapore Management University Kua hinga te totara i te wao nui a Tane I had expected that this blog would be a report on the annual conference of the Arbitrators’...
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The 13th ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition – Reflections On...
Rosemary HowellWinning is wonderful. No question. As I write this, I am admiring the winner’s trophy – earned by my team from the University of New South Wales in Australia – at the recently concluded...
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Leading In Conflict
Bill Marsh (Editor) One of the privileges of mediating is to watch leaders at work. Every party, every team, has its leader(s). And as any mediator will tell you, the way in which they choose to lead...
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Is Swapping Shoes Enough?
Charlie WoodsJulian Baggini’s recently published book “How the world thinks” is a history of global philosophy, looking at how thinking has developed in different places and times. In the introduction...
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