Search Mediators Near You:

A Dispute Resolution Quote Of Note

Here’s something for all of us, regardless of political persuasion, to think about as America debates the big issues:

…when any government measure, no matter how carefully crafted or beneficial, is subject to scorn; when any efforts to help people in need are attacked as un-American; when facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom, and we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter – that at that point we don’t merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges. We lose something essential about ourselves.

From Obama’s September 8, 2009,  speech on health care.

                        author

Diane J. Levin

Diane Levin, J.D., is a mediator, dispute resolution trainer, negotiation coach, writer, and lawyer based in Marblehead, Massachusetts, who has instructed people from around the world in the art of talking it out. Since 1995 she has helped clients resolve disputes involving tort, employment, business, estate, family, and real property… MORE >

Featured Mediators

ad
View all

Read these next

Category

Keystone Conference: Megatrends for Mediators in Governance

Related Video 25 Year Megatrends in Governance (20,000 ft view) General trends (next 10 years): “Tectonic shifts in the boundaries of the state” Don Kettl Continued “hollowing out” or “retreat”...

By Kirk Emerson
Category

Mediating Legal Malpractice Cases

Originally published in the Los Angeles Daily Update, "Rest Easier", May 19, 1999 At the end of a long day you receive a phone call from someone you know at...

By Gene Moscovitch
Category

A Transformative Mediator Intervening in a Commercial Would-Be Dispute

Guest blogger, Carlo Mosca, is a commercial lawyer specializing in international business. He’s been practicing as a mediator, and a trainer in ADR since the mid ‘90s (www.carlomosca.it). He is...

By Dan Simon

Find a Mediator

X
X
X