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• Reflective Practice: In Their Voices Interview with Chuck Crumpton
• Divorcing with Children: Have you thought about Nesting?
• Enhancing Divorce Mediation Outcomes: The Role of a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst
• A Successful Mediation
• The Promise of Mediation in Ukraine: Cease-Fire and a Road Map to a Peace Treaty
• Mediate University CyberWeek Sale!
• Mediator Ethics and Ethical Dilemmas
• The 2023 Mediate.com Holiday Membership Sale – Save 25%!
• Reflective Practice: In Their Voices Interview with Tim Hicks
• Have You Considered the Tax Consequences of Your Divorce Agreement?
• Should We Wait Until After the Holidays to Start Our Divorce?
• Should AI Write Your Parenting Plan?
• Elden Ring and Mediation
• Ken Cloke – Mediate.com Great Reads Book Club
• ODR in Family Law: Developments in Texas – and the Rest of the World
• Reflective Practice: In Their Voices Interview with Ava Abramowitz & Kenneth Webb
• ODR Cyberweek 2023: Best Practices in ODR System Design and Deployment 
• ODR Cyberweek 2023: Star Wars, Pop Culture, and ODR
• ODR Cyberweek 2023: ThinkTech Webinar: AI and Mediation
• ODR Cyberweek 2023: What’s on the Horizon for ODR? Roundtable Discussion
• Conflict Tipping Podcast 28: Supporting mental health in conflict with Dr Nawaraj Upadhaya
• Bringing Informed Consent & Consumerism into Mediation: Parties Jointly Select Their Lawyers
• The Spiritual Side of Mediation
• Biden AI Executive Order – Summary
• Mediation in Intellectual Property Disputes
• Forgive Without Apology
• State Association Banner Exchanges!
• ODR Forum Montreal 2023 – Round Table on the Impact of AI on ODR (video)
• Reflective Practice: In Their Voices Interview with Michael Lang by Cinnie Noble (video)
• An Uncomfortable Listening Level
• State Association Banner Exchange
• ODR Forum Archives – Complete History
• The Best Time Ever To Get A Mediate.com Statewide Banner!
• Reflective Practice: In Their Voices Interiew with John Stephens
• ODR Forum Montreal 2023: Keynote: Artificial Intelligence and ODR
• ODR Forum Montreal 2023: ODR and the Courts
• Do You Need a Framework or Formula for Navigating Conflict?
• Harmonious Conflict Resolution
• Reflective Practice: In Their Voices Interview with Manon Schonewille
• What has the UK government got to gain from Mediation?
• Conflict Tipping Podcast 27: Nonviolence and Unarmed Civilian Protection with Dr Louise Ridden
• Is Technology Now the ‘3rd Party’ or ‘4th Party’ in Dispute Resolution?
• Rising Above Office Conflict: Nov. 17 Training for HR, Management & Leaders
• Mediate’s ‘Members Only’ Content Available to All this Month for Free!
• ICODR Podcast Episode 25: Matt Bartlett on the regulation of emerging technologies
• How to Deal with Emotional Turbulence During Divorce Mediation?
• The Rashomon Effect and Conflict
• 5 Strategies for Resolving Conflicts Between Remote Team Members
• Understanding Large Language Models: A Long But Simple Guide
• New ‘Top Shelf’ Workplace Mediation Training Now Available Online!
• Richard Susskind | Keynote @ ODR Forum 2023
• Jacob Ward, Author of “The Loop” interviewed by Prof. Amy Schmitz
• 5 Tips for Divorce Mediation With An Uncooperative Spouse
• “Me Myself and AI” – Course Video & Resources at Low Introductory Price!
• Introducing the Reflective Practice: “In Their Voices” Conversation Project
• Fall Focus: Supporting Today’s Workplace
• Great Reads Book Club: Rising Above Office Conflict with Clare Fowler (video)
• Reflective Practice: In Their Voices Interview with Sue Bronson
• Macbeth Reimagined: Navigating Ambition, Betrayal and Digital Disputes in the Metaverse
• What Our Inner Conflict Tells Us About How We Mediate
• Michael Lang and Susanne Terry’s Reflective Practice Institute
• Reflective Practice: In Their Voices Interview with Howard Herman
• Training Your Mediator Bot
• Impact of Psyche on Mediation
• Virtual is Reality – Zoom Mediation is Here to Stay
• Leveraging Mediation to Foster Mental Health During Divorce
• To Disagree Better, We Need to Improve our Conflict Competence
• Mediating in the Eye of the Storm!
• Cursory Glimpse: The Mediator’s Steps in Facilitating the Process
• Why Mediation Competitions are a Win-Win for Everyone Involved
• The Paradox of AI Regulation: Navigating Uncharted Terrains
• Leveraging Mediation to Foster Mental Health During Divorce
• Reflective Practice: In Their Voices Video Conversation Project – Interview with Tammy Lenski
• Family Trial by Jury vs Mediation
• ICODR Podcast 24: Dr. Fahimeh Abedi on law and artificial intelligence
• Conflict Tipping Podcast 26: Protecting People Over Tech Platforms with Anne Ikiara of Digital Action
• Dancing with Disagreement
• Mediate.com Celebrates 1,000th Edition of “This Week in Mediation”
• Mediate.com Special Podcast: Interview with Mediate.com Co-Founder John Helie
• Celebrate 1,000 Newsletter Issues by Revisiting Testimonials From Our 200th, 400th and 500th Newsletters
• Metaphors for our Movement
• England & Wales (finally) Embrace Mediation
• Are Negotiation Tactics Returning to the American Government?
• Don’t Tell Bob in Accounting He’s a Raging Jerk (even if he is)
• The Future of Online Mediation with Jim Melamed and Colin Rule
• How To Handle Difficult Behavior In The Workplace
• Scapegoating and other fallacious fun
• The Achievement and Impact of Mediate.com with Clare Fowler, Colin Rule & Ron Dolin (video)
• Conflict Tipping Podcast 25: Queering the Colombian Conflict with Dr Samuel Ritholtz
• Challenge to Mediators: Describe Your Mediation System
• AI and the Future of Mediation (video)
• Differences Between Collaborative Divorce and Mediation
• Enhancing Mediation with ChatGPT: The AI Solution for Efficient Agreements
• Conflict Junkies
• What’s in a Face?
• Mediate.com Membership & Services
• The Mediator’s Touch: Ancelotti and the Art of Bridging Gaps in Football
• Mediate.com Membership Badges
• Mediation Isn’t Always About Money
• Mediate University Course Bundles Have Now Expanded
• Great Reads Book Club – “The Legal Singularity” by Abdi Aidid & Benjamin Alarie (video)
• Professionals Who Mediate – Part 4
• Conflict Tipping Podcast 24: Getting enough sleep and time traveling
• 14 Effective Conflict Resolution Techniques (video)
• Professionals Who Mediate – Part 3
• Are You Really Ready for Divorce? The 8 Questions You Need to Ask
• Noticing Six Dispute Modes
• Trauma-Informed Care in Mediation
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 23: When Political Parties Polarize
• Experience Creating NextLevel Mediation’s Technical Support Bot
• A British Accent as a Dispute Resolution Skill
• Calling for Contributions for Handbook of Environmental Conflicts
• Who Says Mediation is Not for Complex Cases?
• Shaping a New Paradigm: Creating Lasting Change through Diversity and Inclusion in Mediation
• Professionals Who Mediate – Part 2
• Mediation and Mindfully Getting in the Middle: Brad Heckman at TEDx Teachers College
• Seven Steps for Effective Problem Solving in the Workplace
• 50 Questions You Can Ask Friends and Relatives in Political Arguments
• Interesting ODR Developments in Italy
• Professionals Who Mediate – Part 1
• Conflict Tipping Podcast 22: Empathy across political divides with Luiza Almeida Santos
• ICODR Podcast 23: Ben Davis, Emeritus Professor at University of Toledo Law School
• Dealing with Gatekeeper Parents
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Mediation – ChatGPT as Mediator 4.0
• Separated? Consider the Butterfly Effect
• How Mediation is Different From Arbitration
• ICODR Podcast Episode 22: Keri Morris and Isobel Egerton on ODR for Domain Name Disputes
• Elevating Your Child’s Voice in Divorce Mediation
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 20: Transforming cultures in and outside the workplace with David Liddle MBA
• 100th ALI Anniversary: Role of Technology in Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice (2023)
• ICODR Podcast Episode 21: Dr. Irene Sigismondi, Teaching Assistant at University of Rome
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 21: The Rise of the Masses with Dr Benjamin Abrams
• The Gentle Art of Dispute Resolution – Mediation Lessons from a Jiu Jitsu Practitioner
• Mindfully Navigating Through Conflict
• 6 Ways to Stay Calm and Collected During a Heated Argument
• Honoring AFCC’s 60th Anniversary
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 20: Transforming Workplace Culture & Conflict with David Liddle MBA
• Mediate.com’s Mental Health and Mediation Conference is Now Online!
• Divorce Mediator & Attorney – What’s the Difference?
• Your Ultimate 12-Step Guide to Coworker Mediation
• My Students Are Ready To Handle The Most Divisive Conflicts
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 37 – Mediating the Business Divorce with Margeaux Thomas
• Want to Build Peace? Understanding Trauma is Key – Part 2
• Does Online Mediation Create Disadvantages for New Mediators?
• Harnessing Technology for Dispute Resolution: A critical assessment of India’s ODR Policy 2021
• Navigating a High Conflict Divorce
• Mediate.com Brings ODR and AI Expertise to ABA Conference
• Colin Rule Receives D’Alemberte-Raven Award from ABA in Las Vegas!
• Better Reflecting Mediation to the World
• ICODR Podcast Episode 20 – Why Is Justice Lagging Behind? with Mirèze Philippe
• ICODR Podcast Episode 19 – Influence of ChatGPT on ODR with Noam Ebner
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 19 – Reincorporating Combatants in Colombia with Dr. Solveig Richter and Laura Camila Barrios Sabogal
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 36: Development of Mediation in Brazil with Mariana F. Souza
• Inside the Mediation Room with Guest Lara Traum
• Inside the Mediation Room with Guest Ken Neumann
• Best Practices in Asynchronous Online Dispute Resolution
• Breaking Barriers in Order to Access Justice: Improving Diversity in Canada’s Mediation Field
• Overcoming Clichés in Mediation
• Conflict Begins in the Brain, Driven by Emotions
• To Zoom or Not to Zoom?
• Launching ECRRoster.org
• How to Have an Unsuccessful Mediation
• 8 Important Topics Often Overlooked in Custody Mediation
• The Importance of Really Listening – For Ourselves, Others and Democracy
• Want to Build Peace? Understanding Trauma is Key
• Choosing the Right Mediator for Your Disputes
• 4 Reflections on the Ombuds Conference
• Implementing AI in Next Level Mediation Software
• Optimization in Mediation and Artificial Intelligence
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 35: What Mediators Should Know About Communication in Latin American Culture and How AI Impacts Dispute Resolution
• Great Reads Book Club – Colm Brannigan and Marc Bhalla (interviewed by Colin Rule)
• Caseload Manager for Ombuds Offices
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Mediation Conference – April 18-19
• Expert Forms for Mediators
• The Life Goals Analysis: A Powerful Mediation Tool
• Competing, Accommodating and Compromising in Conflict Resolution
• What Makes Parties Trust a Mediator?
• Mediate.com Welcomes Ron Dolin as Chief Innovation Officer
• The Connection Between Expanding Consciousness and Conflict Management
• The Italian Mediation Reform: Elements and Perspectives
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 34: Can the Mediation Community Be Responsive To Changing Consumer Trends? with Linda Heng
• APEC (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation) Study on Best Practices in Using ODR
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 18: Cancer, conflict, and digital technologies in peace mediation with Dr. Miguel Varela Rodriguez
• Maximizing Value: Soft Negotiation Skills to Create Value
• AI, ADR and Anxiety
• Notice to Mediate: When to serve one in British Columbia
• How Will AI Change Mediation? 3 Bold Predictions
• The Dilemma of the Abrasive Leader in the Workplace… and the Solution
• Finding Hope: Support for those struggling with substance use disorder
• ODR and Multiparty Consensus Building – from Cyberweek 2022 (video)
• ICODR Podcast Episode 18: ODR in Courts in Canada and Cyberjustice with Dr. Nicolas Vermeys
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 33: What Mediators Should Know About the Business Development Side of Adding Conflict Management Coaching with Cinnie Noble
• Mediator Mugs Breaking Out!
• Developing Mediation Culture in Civil Law Systems: A Tale of Two Countries – Italy & Georgia (Part 2)
• Who says Mediation is not for Complex Cases?
• Developing Mediation Culture in Civil Law Systems: A tale of two countries – Italy & Georgia (Part 1)
• Avatar Mediation
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 32: Understanding Human Dignity to Resolve Conflict in Organizations
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 17: Making Lives More Complex (and Democratic) with Shannon Wheatley Hartman
• Preventive Mediation
• How to Prepare for Mediation with a Narcissist
• Great Reads Book Club – David Liddle (interviewed by Merry Brown)
• Making Mediation Work in Your Favor – How to Approach Mediation in High Stakes Litigation
• Inside the Mediation Room with Guest Colin Rule
• What Happens Now? Succession Planning for Family Owned Businesses
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 16: Accents, inclusion, and migration with Dr. Zdena Mtetwa-Middernacht
• What If We Don’t Agree on Everything in Divorce Mediation?
• ‘Holding The Calm’… Many Different Ways To Say The Same Thing
• New Jersey: Why Divorce Mediation is Needed More Than Ever
• How Positive Psychology Can Benefit Conflict Resolution
• Bob Bergman shows off the latest AI features in his platform NextLevelMediation.com
• Overcoming Tribal Consciousness
• A Guide for Small Businesses to Resolve Disputes through Mediation
• Mediation is Hard!
• Uncertain Times call for Creative Problem Solving for Divorcing Couples
• Chinese Spy Balloon – ‘Shoot It Down’: Expert Negotiation Lessons
• Van Winkle: An Unintended Consequence of Zoom Mediations
• The Unexpected Power of Food in Mediation
• Empathy In Toxic Partisan Pandemic-Based Conflicts: How Organizational Strategy Can Help Us Do Better
• ICODR Podcast Episode 17: Colm Brannigan & Marc Bhalla, authors of “Online Dispute Resolution: Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.”
• The Informational Benefits of Small Talk!
• ChatGPT and Mediation
• Lynn Merle Johnson: 1947 – 2023
• You Should Always Negotiate Your Worth: 3 Reasons Why
• What is Mediation?
• ICODR Podcast Episode 16: Guest is Dr. Tsisana Shamlikashvili, Moscow Based International ADR Expert
• The Role of Mediation for Better Mental Health in Relationships
• Political Reconciliation Made Possible via Choreographed Dialogue
• Managing Our Own Expectations
• How Can I Become More Comfortable with Conflict?
• ICODR Podcast Episode 15: Professor Orna Rabinovich-Einy of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa.
• Political Behavior and Conflict Management
• Mediation May Hinge on a Clear Understanding of What’s on the Table
• ODR in Aotearoa: What’s in a Name?
• Great Reads Book Club – Dan Simon and Tara West (interviewed by Clare Fowler)
• Revisiting a Parenting Plan in the New Year
• Disputes Suitable for ADR in India
• A Life Mostly Lived – A Mediator’s Haiku Memoir
• Why Family Mediation is like Climbing a Mountain
• When Words Fail Us – Creating Safe Space for Empathetic Listening
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 15: Brianna Hernandez, Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations
• Is Mediation like Quantum Physics?
• Reflections on Civility and Ethics
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 31:  Online Conciliation in Colombia with Nicolás Lozada
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 14: Adrian Wagner, Research Fellow at European School of Governance
• Real Practice Systems Project Series
• The Difference Between Accommodating and Avoiding
• Conflict Analysis Needs Better Tools
• Mediation, Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT
• Why Refusing to Mediate and Collaborate Can Be Costly Business
• The Highly Sensitive Person at Work
• Pele’s Magic, Match and Mediation
• A Litigator’s Guide to Mediation Advocacy
• Enhancing Communication
• Factors that Determine the Beginnings of the Initial Mediation Session
• Aaron Judge Contract Negotiations: A Case Study in Leveraging Power
• New Year, New You: 3 Resolutions Worth Making
• Reflections: Your Year with Conflict and Courage
• Business vs Values in Negotiation: FIFA and Qatar
• Planning to Transform Your Organisation?
• Who Can I Bring To Custody Mediation?
• Expand Self-aware Consciousness at Work
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 13: Laura Aumeer on gender, climate change, and conflict
• Conflict Resolutions for 2023
• So, You Want to be a Mediator?
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 12: Sebastian F. Winter, M.D. Ph.D.
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 11: Mediator and Facilitator Felicity Steadman
• ICODR Podcast Episode 14: Daniel Rainey, ODR Pioneer and Principal in Holistic Solutions, Inc.
• ICODR Podcast Episode 13: Professor Dorcas Quek Anderson from the Singapore Mediation Center
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 30: Using Caucus in Family Mediations with LaTanya Moss
• In Lichon, Michigan SC changed the test for the scope for Arbitration
• 5 Ways to Wrap Up Conflict for the Holidays
• Create and Maintain a Healthy Workplace Culture
• Chalking: Next Stop – U.S. Supreme Court?
• Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Masterclass with Colin Rule in Jan/Feb – Last Week to Register!
• Inside the Mediation Room – Lucia Kanter St. Amour
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 29: Mediating Employment Disputes with Tim Warner
• ODR and Airline Disputes
• A Preview of the ODR2023.org Conference
• Ethan Katsh interview – The Origins of Online Dispute Resolution
• Mediation Key To Social Harmony
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 28: Intercultural Communication and Envisioning a Culture of Peace
• ICODR Podcast Episode 12: David Allen Larson, Professor of Law at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law
• Great Reads Book Club – S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour, interviewed by Clare Fowler
• The Mathew Effect
• Ten Real Mediation Systems
• When Mediation Conduct Goes Wrong
• The Benefits of using ADR in Resolving PI Disputes
• Bayonetta 3, Fairpay and Negotiation
• Is Conciliation in the Resolution of Labour Disputes a waiting room before Adjudication? An Indian Perspective
• Name-Calling in Conflict
• Making Your Workplace Mentally Fit
• Successful Mediation Practices from a Former Judge
• Five Ways to Repair a Marriage
• Reexamining Email Negotiations
• ICODR Podcast Episode 11: Graham Ross, Head of International Marketing at Smartsettle
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 10: Tamsin Parnell on Discourse and Division
• Great Reads Book Club – Hesha Abrams, interviewed by John DeGroote
• Don’t Wait For Others; Be The Change
• Wrangling Emotions
• Self-compassion is the Elixir of Life
• Managing Conflict and Bullying Behavior in the Workplace
• How a humanistic approach to Mediation would impact on the definition of mediation, mediation practice, training and accreditation – Part II
• Why I argue for Mediation to move beyond the dehumanised legal mediation model – Part I
• Negotiation and Hamilton
• Understanding Virtual Eviction Mediation Programs – A Q&A
• Inside the Mediation Room: Guest Chip Rose
• Modifying Underlying Dimensions in the TKI
• Improve Conflict-Handling Behavior in Groups
• Custody Mediation – Before or During Litigation?
• Back to Basics: Why Mediate?
• Mediation Before the Mediation; The important role of a pre-mediation session
• Negotiation and Mediation Communication Gambits for Breaking Impasse & more…
• An Introduction to Collaborative Construction Contracts for Large and International Projects
• Bob Bordone on Reducing Political Polarization
• The Hyper-Polarization Challenge to the Conflict Resolution Field: An Online Discussion
• Richard Susskind Keynote for Cyberweek 2020
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 9: Jan Gerrit Voelkel, Ph.D. Student in Sociology at Stanford University
• ICODR Podcast Episode 10: Chittu Nagarajan, Founder and CEO of CREKODR
• Investor-State Mediation: A New Way to deal with Old Problems
• Self-determination versus Protection: A False Choice?
• Speak or Not to Speak
• Learning Conflict Management Methods Direct From Their Creator
• The Impact of Mediation on Mental Health
• ICODR Podcast Episode 9: Professor Pablo Cortes of Leicester University Law School
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 27: For the Forces of Good With Lucia Kanter St. Amour
• Pouring a Little Psychological Cold Water on Online Dispute Resolution
• Slices of Conflict in Life
• Logic, Emotions and Values: 40 Years of Negotiation Style and Decision Theory
• Abandoning Our Assumptions When in Conflict
• Mediation for Wedding Vendors and Couples in Singapore
• Who Should Use Custody Mediation?
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 8: Professor Aleksandra Cichocka
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 22: An Introduction to the Ombuds Role for Mediators with Chuck Doran
• Dan Rainey on Making Friends with the Fourth Party
• How Can We Increase Selection of Diverse ADR Neutrals?
• Mediate.com Announces Launch of New Online Dispute Resolution Platform: ODR.com
• Turn your Mistakes into Stories
• Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age – Table of Contents
• About Forgiving
• Past and Future Change Management Trends
• Caseload Manager Helps Ombuds Offices Meet Best Practice Standards
• For the Forces of Good, Indeed!
• Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen: Consider Mediation!
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 7: Oded Adomi Leshem, Senior Research Associate at the PICR Lab, Hebrew University
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 26: Procedural Justice and Data Collection in Court-Connected Mediation with Nancy Welsh
• ICODR Podcast: Episode 8: Professor Amy Schmitz
• Your Working Life is Short: Why Waste it on Litigation?
• Negotiation is Not Much Different From a Muscle: An Excerpt from ‘For the Forces of Good’
• When Unmarried Couples Separate – What’s Best for the Children?
• Recognize and Close Culture Gaps
• 7 Ways to Get Rid of Unhealthy Mindsets
• ICODR Podcast Episode 7: Dr. Alberto Elisavetsky, Founder of ODRLatinoAmerica.com
• Mediators Help Save the Economy
• Mediation – A Sound First Step to a Successful Prenup
• Christian Aspects of Mediation / Dialogue (A Reflection)
• Post Divorce Haunts: Unresolved Issues or Changes in Circumstances Come Back to Haunt Divorced Couples
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 6: Helen Winter, Co-Founder and CEO of R3SOLUTE.com
• ICODR Podcast Episode 6: Morenike Obi-Farende Founder of ODRAfrica.com
• Soft Touch
• Deception or B.S.?
• Mediate.com’s Mediation and Mental Health Conference September 28-30
• Significant Participation, Agreement Levels Highlight Potential for ODR in Family Cases
• How Can We Reduce Hyper-Polarization?
• Angelia Tolbert Receives Marvin E. Johnson Diversity and Equity Award
• ICODR Podcast Episode 4: Colin Rule, CEO of Mediate.com and ODR.com
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 25: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Your Mediation Practice
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 5: Dr. Samantha Hardy Lawson, Principal at Conflict Coaching International
• Inside a High-Profile Plea Bargain Negotiation – Part I
• Inside a High-Profile Plea Bargain Negotiation – Part II
• Conflict Resolution Readiness
• Conflict Management and ‘The Big Picture’
• Not My Job… Unless…
• “When ‘Happily Ever After…’ becomes ‘Under Construction Forever After’”*
• Bob’s Great Negotiators: Roger Fisher
• Mediating Cross-border and CISG Disputes
• Who Gets the Custody of Pets in a Divorce?
• Co-Mediation: “Shall We Dance?”
• A Dollar for Chalking
• Great Reads Book Club – Lorraine Segal, interviewed by Alesia Grace Thompson
• Conflict Tipping Podcast – Episode 4: Juan Diaz-Prinz of the United States Institute of Peace
• Cultural Norms and Conflict
• Looking Back at the First 18 Months of Arbitrate.com
• 6 Tips to help Manage Conflict at Work
• Questions to Improve Communication and Build Relationships
• How Books Can Help Mediators Do a Better Job – at Work, and at Home
• Back to School Basics for Busy Co-parents
• Dispute Resolution in the Post Babel Era
• Rent Relief and Eviction Mediation Work Hand in Hand to Make Housing More Stable
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 24: Negotiation Ethics, International Dispute Resolution with Carrie Menkel-Meadow
• Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 3: Prof. Stefan Pfattheicher on Compassion, Boredom and Aggression
• Remembering Victor Herbert, Berkeley’s ‘Mr. Mediator’
• A Long, Hard Road to ‘Yes’
• Dealing with Toxic Co-workers or Bosses
• The Spy That I Love
• You Likely Provoke Others, From Time to Time, Right?
• Conflict Management and Political Behaviour around the World
• Positive and Negative Emotions in Conflict
• Custody Mediation with a Narcissist Spouse
• AFCC and NCJFCJ Joint Statement on Parent-Child Contact Problems
• Conflict Tipping Podcast – Episode 2: Rob Fersh and Monika Glowacki of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
• 3 Strategies to Minimize And Resolve Business Partnership Disputes
• Nesting Divorce: When Co-Parents rotate in and out of the home
• The New Nigerian Bill on Arbitration & Mediation: Lessons For The Singapore Convention?
• A Litigator’s Dilemma
• Divorce is a Rollercoaster
• Mediate.com Announces The Conflict Tipping Podcast with Laura May
• Mediate.com Podcast 23: Providing Mediation as an Alternative Response to Low Emergent 911 Calls within the City of Dayton
• Both Sides Now
• It’s All a Matter of Style!
• Sharing Resources: ADR Academics Create a Repository of Best Teaching Practices
• Resolving Strategy and Structure Conflicts
• Settlement Offers – An Approach for Assessing
• Let’s Normalise Having Difficult Conversations
• Things to Consider When Divorce Includes Children with Special Needs
• It’s Fine (and other misunderstandings that fuel conflict)
• Abraham Lincoln and Dispute Resolution
• Interrupting When in Conflict – A No No!
• What Does Rowing Across the Pacific Have to do with Dispute Resolution?
• Can Children be Involved in Mediation?
• The Next Level of ADR
• New Michigan Mediation Mental Health Program a Nationwide Success Model
• ICODR Podcast 5: Petros Zourdoumis, Founder of ODReurope.com
• How to Navigate the Role of an ‘Accidental Mediator’
• Holding the Calm: The Secret to Resolving Conflict and Defusing Tension
• Humor Theory for When Everything Seems Like it is Going to Hell
• A Big Piece of Pie!
• Assessing “Looking Good”​ or Actual Behavior?
• Each Of Us Can Be The Superhero That Changes The World
• Book Review – America’s Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights
• Judges as Mediators, and the Issues that Won’t Go Away
• IS THE WORLD REALLY FALLING APART, OR DOES IT JUST FEEL THAT WAY?
• ICODR Podcast 4: Colin Rule – CEO of Mediate.com, Arbitrate.com & ODR.com
• ICODR Podcast 3: Prof. Leah Wing
• Pickleball: A Fun Sport with a Funny Name, But Conflicts Abound – A Mediator’s View
• How to Protect Data from Hackers in the Dispute Sector
• The Future of Post-Pandemic Mediation – Mediate.com Panel Discussion (Video)
• Bob Bordone Reacts to Can you Negotiate Abortion Rights?
• The Elephant in the Room
• William Ury’s ‘The Art of Saying ‘No,’ and How it Applies in the Mediation Room
• 5 Benefits of Mediation for Family Law Dispute Resolution
• 10 Tips: Mediators’ Techniques to Build, Foster, Restore Community Cohesion
• Tangible Techniques versus Fuzzy Technologies
• Ethical Fading
• What the Statistics Tell Us About Divorce and Custody Mediation
• Collaborating: Most Complex and Least Understood Conflict Mode
• Conflict Management Lessons from the Djokovic–Kyrgios ‘Bromance’
• Are You Suffering From “Resolution Rate Syndrome”?
• Divorce Mediation and the TKI
• Meet Mediate.com’s new Chief Data Scientist, Oladeji Tiamiyu
• ODR – Are you prepared for the future of Conflict Resolution?
• Non-lawyers Can Be Great Mediators; But, Are Lawyers Really Necessary in Mediation?
• Encourage Early-Stage Mediation to Build Your Practice and Help Families
• ICODR Podcast 2: Prof. Ethan Katsh
• Welcome to the ICODR Podcast 1
• The Importance of Mediation in the ADA Interactive Process
• “How To Win Friends and Influence People” aka Being a Mediator
• Pensions in divorce: What are they and how are they split?
• Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice – A Treatise on Technology and Dispute Resolution
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 21: How To Leverage Design Principles To Elevate Your Mediation Services
• ODR Ethics and Standards: What Do They Mean to Our Practices?
• A conversation with Richard Susskind (author) & Ethan Katsh (NCTDR Founder)
• The Distinction Between Collaborating and Compromising
• LGBTQ Couples And Divorce Trends
• More Than Ever, Leaders Need Soft Skills
• Mediation Offers Lifeline for Communities Being Inundated by Flood of Evictions
• Heidi Brown’s Books Promoting Flourishing and Effective Practitioners
• Expanding Self-Aware Consciousness in the Workplace
• William Ury’s ‘The Art of Saying ‘No,’ and How it Applies in the Mediation Room
• Work and Life Lessons from Watching Rafael Nadal
• Justice and Fairness
• Mediation Evangelism and Other Bubbe-Meises
• Most Effective Use of a Conflict Mode
• Inside the Mediation Room: Guest Graham Ross
• How Mediation Can Help Toxic Behaviors in Relationships
• How Your Written and Oral Communication Can Produce – or Reduce – Extreme Polarization
• Family Law Mediators: A Tool to Reduce Conflict in and out of Mediation for Your Co-parent Clients
• Mediation at the Grassroots: Kenya
• Introversion, the Legal Profession, and Dispute Resolution
• Mediate.com Podcast Episode 20: Early Dispute Resolution in Special Education
• What is Conflict Transformation?
• Reconnecting with the Outside World
• Divorce Without Court: A Better Way To Divorce – Video Panel
• Options For Resolving Business Partnership Disputes
• Encanto and Conflict Communication – Video
• The Art of the Simple in Mediation
• Proposal for A User Friendlier CCP Section 664.6
• The Marriage Between Conflict Management and Change Management
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• Is Your Separation Complicated?
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• 20 Ways to Improve UNFCCC Meetings and Climate Change Negotiations
• [PODCAST] ADR can be a “Win-Win” Solution for In-House Counsel
• The Power of Gratitude
• ADR & Activism Through Art – Maya Angelou and Frida Kahlo
• The Muddy Time
• The Relevance of Mediation in the Modern Workplace
• Questions and Questioning within the Conversational Framework
• The Singapore Convention on Mediation – Where’s Europe?
• Confidentiality and Protecting Client Data in an Online Environment
• Drafting Mediated Workplace Agreements
• How to Manage In-Laws Post Divorce
• How Mediation Can Make Divorce Easier on Your Family
• Helping Kids Adjust to Life When Parents Go Through Divorce
• Affect in Methods of Dispute Resolution
• A Short Story: How My Friend Destroyed Their Bullies
• ODR Survey–Your response requested
• Managing Expectations to Avoid Conflict
• One Year Later: Zoom Fatigue
• Annoy the Mediator at Your Own Risk: Negotiation Tactics and Missteps to Avoid, Part 2
• Be Open like Oprah and Candid like Chrissy
• Don’t Look Where You Fall
• Progressive Discipline, the Misunderstood Frontier – Part 3
• Temporary or Partial Impracticability and Frustration of Purpose and Pandemic Affected Contracts and Leases
• Practical Tips for Presumptive ADR Participants: Five Do’s and Don’ts for Pre-Mediation Statements
• ADR Principles and Clergy-Congregation Relations
• For Ombuds Moving Online
• Evolution of the Mediation Field: Conversation Series with Field Leaders
• Announcing the Launch of the New and Improved Arbitrate.com
• After Lockdown, Businesses will Need to be More Human Than Ever
• Why Mediation Fails
• Weaving Our Tapestries
• Mediating Workplace Sexual Harassment: The Road Less Taken
• Domestic Harmony For Better Future Of Our Children
• Have Empathy like Eleanor (and be Perceptive like Princess Diana)
• CPRAM21: Committing to More Diversity in ADR
• Line in the Sand
• Courage is a Choice
• Using Mediation to Develop a Prenup that Satisfies Both Parties
• CON·FLICT
• [NAWJ Podcast] Technology in the Courts and in ADR: Meeting the Moment
• How Do We Tell our Friends We’re Getting a Divorce?
• Progressive Discipline, the Misunderstood Frontier – Part 2
• Adversarial Ethics and the Responsibilities of Mediation Associations
• CEDR’s Eileen Carroll: Her Mediation Story
• Certified Eviction Mediators in Montana — by videoconference and in person
• A Tale of Two Pilots: A comparison of civil justice innovation in New York State and England & Wales
• Ways to Practice Building Your Emotional Intelligence
• Safety, Simplicity, and Clients—oh my!
• Of Pandemic and Perseverance: NYCLA’s ADR Committee Makes Lemonade Out of Lemons in 2020
• Keeping the Marital Home in Divorce and Pitfalls for the Unwary
• Blind Spots and Conflict
• Why are LGBT+ Employees Still More Likely to be Involved in Workplace Conflict?
• ADR’S Place in Navigating a Polarized Era
• Money Buys Happiness
• Rule of Law in the New Abnormal – Webinar
• How to Find Help From Domestic Violence
• FINRA DRS Postpones In-Person Hearings through April. Are Virtual Hearings Driving Down Customer Recoveries? These Researchers Say “Yes”
• Innovative Ways to Use Mediation (other than Dispute Resolution)
• Clash of Approaches
• Is ADR the Cure for COVID-19-Related Litigation?
• Lawyers are from Mars, Clients are from Venus– and Mediators Can Help Communicate in Space
• Shovel 2 – Saving Traditional Mediation
• A First-Hand Experience with My Premarital Agreement
• The Ten or Twelve Top Reasons (More or Less) for Not Mediating a Dispute – Revisited
• Mediating and Resolving COVID-19 Related Contract and Commercial Lease Disputes
• Why are Lawyers Good Mediators?
• H.E.R.E are the Steps You Need to Take to Have a Transformational, Conflict-Positive Conversation
• Valentines Day and Divorce
• 20 Proposals to Resolve Electoral Conflicts and Strengthen Democracy
• Timing is Everything Again
• Open- v Closed-Ended Questions
• Start with the Small Rocks
• Effective Virtual Mediation: 10 Lessons After 10 Months
• CPRAM21 Keynote: CNN’s Dana Bash on Negotiations, Conflict Resolution, and Truth Telling
• Using Private Mediation for a Happier Divorce
• Tips for a Productive Divorce Mediation
• The Opportunity of Rejection
• Bats, Rattlesnakes, and a Mine Shaft
• Five Principles to Maximize Chances of Success in Mediation
• CPRAM21 Day 2 Opener: Carlos Hernandez Presents Five Principles of Prevention
• Annoy the Mediator at Your Own Risk: Negotiation Tactics and Missteps to Avoid
• An Ethical Dilemma: What To Do?
• The Benefits of ADR
• “Whatever you do for me, without me, you do to me”
• Unmarried Parents and Children
• Not Leading By Example
• Dealing with VIP Privilege in Mediation
• Book Review – Evolution of a Field: Personal Histories in Conflict Resolution
• Mediate.com Instructor Discusses Implicit Bias: We All Have It
• How Can We Best Make and Maintain Quality Mediators?
• Code of Civil Procedure Section 664.6 Is Now Lawyer-Friendly
• Conversation, Kindness, and Democracy
• Start 2021 with Apology and Forgiveness!
• Cyclical Nature of Interpersonal Conflict
• Beyond Civil Rights: The Case for Enforcement of Harassment Laws as a Means to Deter Racially Based Confrontations
• The Vanishing Jury Trial and Other Important Lessons for Mediators
• Make Yourself Aware About Divorce Mediation
• Recognizing Trauma: Litigation and Politics are Harming Us
• Radical Collaboration
• ADR Professionals as Both Mediators and Arbitrators in the Same Matter
• Non-Directive Empathic Listening
• Being Unafraid to Feel
• Love’s New Mediation Data: Whither the Joint Session?
• Divorce Noise
• SIT-COMflicts
• Book Review: The Art of Roleplay and Dispute Resolution Training
• The End Game
• A Negotiation Innovation: An intelligent negotiation assistant
• Pandemic Pivot – ADR Poised for Prominence During Recovery
• Landscape of Dispute Resolution
• Egalitarian Change – Our Roles and Responsibilites
• 5 Zoom Lessons for Leaders
• 10 Actions We Can Take to Turn Adversarial, Autocratic, Power-Based Political Conflicts into Collaborative, Democratic, Interest-Based Social Problem Solving
• How to AVOID Conflict Gracefully
• Authenticity in Conflict
• [PODCAST] Reflecting on Nine Months of Virtual ADR
• Let’s Make 2021 the Year of Resolutions
• Theory vs. Reality: Where the Rubber Hits the Road
• How To Screw Up a Mediation in our Brave New World
• Mediation Confidentiality in Federal Court
• Ideas for Teaching Mediation and Negotiation
• Ultimatums in Conflict Resolution
• Personality Matters!
• Mediators, Time to Mend Our Nets
• Collaboration is the Future
• ‘Tis the Season to Mediate or Arbitrate?
• Canada – Protracted Costly Litigation Highlights “Perils Of Not Having A Dispute Resolution Mechanism Built Into A Contract”
• Conflict Resolution Trainer & Gun Lover
• When the Cure is Worse Than the Disease: Civil liberties Under Attack
• [Podcast/Video] International Arbitration Across the Pond: Everything JAMS Part 1
• Resolving Legal Battles, One Text Message at a Time
• Is My Bias Showing?
• Reflections on the last 525,600 minutes!
• First Holiday Season After Divorce
• Anti-Vaxxers and the New Workplace Divisions
• Start with “Hello” to Manage Conflict
• As Higher Education Contemplates Its Future, New Solutions Are Needed: Facilitation Is One of Them
• Empty Threats Change Nothing
• How Simple Mediation Skills Can Bring Peace After The Election
• Navigating Cybersecurity in ADR
• To ‘Unlock’ the Disputes Post the Lockdown, Use Mediation as ‘The Key’
• What to Do When Abrasive Behavior Disrupts Your Mediation Process
• Stepping Into 2021
• The 2020 Elections, Mediation, and the Political Divide — What Next?
• LCAM/HSF Mediation In Arbitration Survey Initial Results
• Healing and Civility – What Mediation can Teach Us About Bridging Social Divides
• Special Education In a Pandemic: A Legal and Guideline Summary for Mediators and Conflict Resolution Practitioners
• Progressive Discipline, the Misunderstood Frontier – Part 1
• Concepts that Can Help Practitioners Help Parties Make Decisions in Disputes
• Resolving Cognitive Conflict in the Workplace
• Entrenched Views Make Resolution Tricky
• The Importance of Flexibility, Creativity, and Being Prepared!
• Confidentiality – Seamless or a Thing of Shreds and Patches?
• Should Employment Matters with Religious Connotations be Dealt with in Court or by Mediations?
• What a Financial Affidavit Won’t Do
• Mediating with Cultural Competence
• Bridging the Gap Between Us
• Decision Making and Taking Decision in Mediation
• Objectivity is Imperative
• Research Looks at Meaningful Ways to Promote Intergroup Contact
• Take Charge Gracefully
• Legal Design and Dispute Tech: Before the Conflict
• Review: The Book of Real-World Negotiations
• ADR Options
• Family Mediation: A Separate Category of Mediation?
• Is There a Zoom Mediation in Your Future?
• ODR and Virtual Mediation: High Conflict People in Online Mediation
• Let’s Settle This Online
• Healing our Divisions in Troubled Times
• MC3 and Mediate.com enter into new agreement to further Mediator Professionalism
• APFM, NAFCM, MBB & ACR Co-Sponsor National Mediation Policy Act!
• How Mediation Saved the World
• Artificial Intelligence and Arbitration: The Computer as an Arbitrator — Are We There Yet?
• How Can American Democracy Survive its Latest Conflict?
• Holiday Parenting/Custodial Time during COVID-19
• A Process for the Formulation of a School’s Change Strategy
• Lawyers Can Win in Mediation
• Humor and Negotiations in ADR
• The Wisdom Of Choosing A Retired Jurist For ADR
• Microaggressions in ADR: It Is What It Is
• In Memorium: Dr. Jerome Thomas Barrett 1932-2020
• Online Mediation Training at Mediate University
• Why Mediation Is the Holy Grail for Health Care Disputes
• Research Shows How Changing the Narrative Can Open the Door to Conflict Resolution
• Rethinking How We Dress!
• Can You Be a Litigator and a Mediator?
• Virtual Mediation Can and Must Be Done Right
• How to Bring Civility to Political Arguments
• Good Faith in Mediation
• Build the Toolbox
• Mediate.com 20/20 Conference
• New Podcast on the ABA Website Regarding Online Dispute Resolution
• Cyberweek 2020: The Online Mediation Surge and ODR
• Cyberweek 2020: Creating a Code of Disclosure for Online Mediators
• Cyberweek 2020: How to Get Started with Video Mediation
• Resolving Employment Disputes through Mediation–podcast and transcript
• Need for Clear Language Initiative to un-Babel Our Models
• Do You Always Like You?
• Why People Skills have Become Essential to the NHS in its Second Wave Challenge
• Should a Mediator Make a Political Perspective Public?
• Being Emotionally Ready for Divorce Mediation
• Life After Divorce: Coping with Loneliness
• Top 10 Tips for Property Disputes
• The Natural Mediator
• Canada – Different Levels of Courts Urge the Parties Before Them to Mediate Instead of Litigate
• Cyberweek 2020: Opening Session Interview of Jim Melamed by Ethan Katsh
• Mediate.com Announces Task Force Executive Committee and Advisory Board to Support Online Mediation
• Building Leadership in Companies Through Transformational Mediation
• What To Do When Parties Attribute Bad Faith Motives To Each Other
• Update on Remote Mediations and the Virtual Evolution of ADR
• Should Lawyers and Mediators also Play the Role of Therapists?
• Cyberweek Next Week
• Conflict and Culture on a Voyage to Mars
• Virtual Mediation; An Enhanced Process or an Ephemeral Solution?
• An Academic Journal on Hispanic America Online Dispute Resolution
• What Is E-Mediation?
• Group Decision-Making on Complex Public Issues: An experiment with structure.
• Mediation In Greece
• International Arbitration in Australia – The State of Play
• Deescalating Verbal Attacks
• Texting Your Way To Resolution!
• Review Analyzes Impact of Conflict and Stress on the Workplace
• Bedrooms, Bookcases, or Beaches: Choosing and Organizing Your Background with Purpose
• Una Revista Academia Sobre ODR
• Because Mediators Deserve a Personality Test Too
• Mediation in Dollars and Sense
• Mediating Conflict in the Time of Covid-19
• One Shovel at a Time
• The Aim of Argument
• A Transformative Mediator Intervening in a Commercial Would-Be Dispute
• The Singapore Convention and the JAMS/SCMC Joint Mediation Panel
• Evaluating Mediation’s Future
• Asynchronous Instruction in this Year of Living Dangerously
• Envisioning Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) for Internet Service Provider Outages
• Why We Caucus
• Creating Accessible Mediation
• Mediation: A Peacemaking and Peacekeeping Tool in International Relations
• Fight or Flight & Other So-So Responses to Conflict
• The Dissonance Within Us
• October Month of Conflict Resolution Week 2: Featuring 4 Peacebuilding Think-Tanks Across the World
• A Beginners Guide to Mediation – If you Aren’t Doing Empathy or Curiosity, You Probably Aren’t Mediating …
• Video: Mediate.com: The First 25 Years
• The Lawyerization of the Mediation Process
• Top 10 Tips for a Successful Employment Mediation
• Responding to Conflict
• Fault Lines/Property Lines in Conflict
• The Impermanence of Life
• Use Silence in Facilitating
• ODR in India: Opportunity, Challenges, and the Obvious
• Mediate.com Data Indicates Shift in Focus
• Mediate.com Survey: Analyzing the Field
• Stanley Leonard Rodbell – 1934 – 2020
• When People Interrupt
• Practical Tips and Techniques to Succeed in Virtual Mediation: Zooming Ahead!
• Mediation: Movement, Business, or Racket?
• Impact of Couple Conflict and Mediation on How Romantic Partners are Seen: An fMRI study
• Conflict and Culture
• Do You Have to be a Lawyer to Draft a Separation Agreement?
• Talking It Out- The Problem With, And In Rural Areas
• Fragility, Policing, and the Neurophysiology of Fear and Escalation
• Mediation as a Business Accelerator
• Employment Litigation: 3 Instances Where A Company Should Explore Mediation
• Secrets in Plain Sight
• Task Force Recommends ODR Platforms to the ADR Institute of Canada
• Culture and Religion, Evaluating Mediation Approaches: A Case Study
• View from the mediator’s chair – what to do (and not do) in mediation
• Three Questions to Resolve Conflict
• Taking Control of Mediation
• In Their Voices – Video with John Ford
• Mandatory Course on Mediation for Law Students in India
• Innovation in the Way Mediators and in Particular Family Mediators are Trained in England and Wales
• They Said It Couldn’t Be Done – Mediation Training Online
• Max Schrems strikes again! Where next for Mediation Service Providers and their mediators?
• What Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Can Teach Us About the Neutrality of the Mediator
• In the Time of Covid-19: The Rush to Modification
• Singapore Convention on Mediated Settlement Agreements Comes Into Force
• Pretrial Risk Assessment
• How to Choose a Divorce Mediator
• You Mediate on Zoom. Now What?
• Listening is the Key to Problem Solving
• Family Mediation vs Family Litigation
• The Role of Restorative Practices in Effectively Addressing Gender Discrimination and Harassment in the Workplace
• What Are The Steps In The Mediation Process?
• No Mo Fo Mo
• Zoom Fatigue Uncovers Mediators’ Secret Weapon
• The Paradox of Pain in Mediation
• When Three Becomes a Crowd
• The Importance of Accurately Attributing Gains on Separate Property in Divorce
• How To Ask Your Parents To Mediate
• Breaking Up Doesn’t Have to Mean Going Broke
• Institutional Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic: Cooperation, Collaboration and Going Virtual
• Racial Justice Conflict: How “Historical” Racial Symbols Shape Perception, Practices, and Policy
• Reassessing the Pros and Cons of Workplace Arbitration
• Online Mediation Worth the Screen Time
• ‘Emotional Agility’ as a Workplace Mediator
• Gender and Culture in Mediation
• Value-Based Mediation
• Concerns and Optimism for Future
• Hopes for Future of Mediation
• In Their Voices: Video with Joyce Oddison
• Resolving Construction Disputes Through Baseball Arbitration
• Survey results: What Do Wisconsin Judges Think About Mediating Cases?
• Mediation, Neutrality, Political Conflicts, and the 2020 Elections
• Employee Contracts Are Becoming Complicated Amid COVID-19
• NAFCM Vulnerable Visions
• “Death by a thousand paper cuts.”
• Criticizing Others
• Using Assertive Communication as a Way to Prevent Conflict in the Workplace
• Bearing Witness in Mediation
• Thoughts on Addressing Racial Injustice
• Conflict During COVID–Combined Voices from all Seven Continents
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: South America
• Canada – Anti-Suit Injunction Restrains Party Bound by Ontario Arbitration Award
• How is Your Attitude? It makes a difference!
• Mind Reading is Not a Communication Strategy
• From Eye-Rolls to Grimaces: Understanding Body Language in Virtual Mediations
• Mediator’s Thoughts for Parents During the Pandemic
• The Importance of the Relationship: Using Checklists to Improve Discussions
• How Understanding Neuroscience Improves Mediation
• Apologies and Alternative Dispute Resolution Utility in Medical Malpractice
• Keeping the Lights On: Australian Court Enforces Arbitral Award
• Creating a Code of Disclosure for Mediators
• Lessons in Gender Diversity: What Can Adjudicator Nominating Bodies Learn from Arbitration?
• Mobilizing Mediatively
• Mediation and Covid19 Share the Same DNA: Liminality and the Adjacent Possible.
• Divorce Mediation: Using Caucusing to Relieve Pandemic Stress
• The Handshake: A Eulogy
• I am no good at making masks, so how can I pitch in during the pandemic?
• People are Idiots; Marriage is Dumb; and You Are All Going to Get Divorced
• Why Cancel When You Can Mediate
• The Changing Landscape of Mediation vis-a-vis Singapore Convention on Mediation
• Why Mediation Advocacy Training for Attorneys?
• Mediation During the Coronavirus: Putting Things in Perspective
• Navigating the Listening in Mediation
• Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): A Viable Solution to Speed and Efficiency Issues in ADR
• The Enugu State Multi-Door Courthouse (ESMDC)
• Trust Must Be Earned; Trust is Fragile
• Communication More Important Than Ever
• Time for India to Move Online!
• Mediation in India: Do we Practice what we Preach?
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Antarctica
• Canada – Injunction and Increased Costs Ordered Where Arbitral Award Funds Were Core of Dispute
• Australia Plans to Force Facebook and Google to Pay for News
• Canada – States’ Submissions Qualify as “Subsequent Practice” in Investor-State Arbitration
• Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age – The Introduction
• Separating the People from the Problem – Colin Rule and the Rise of Online Dispute Resolution
• Housing, Transforming Community in Times of COVID-19
• Two Words
• The Dead End of Confrontation Can Be Overcome
• Substance of Negotiation in Mediation
• If a Crime is Admitted, What Then?
• Conflict Coaching: Seven Essential Questions
• How Was It?
• 1st Key-Leadership: Establish Strong, Collaborative, Mediative Leadership
• 1st Key-Leadership: The Youth Shall Lead Us
• 1st Key-Leadership: Adopt The Edinburgh Declaration
• 2nd Key-Data: Bring Objective Science to Mediation
• 2nd Key-Data: Run the Global Pound Conference (GPC) Series Every 5-7 Years
• 2nd Key-Data: Develop a Negotiation Index
• The Delhi Pact, 1950: Negotiating to Not Wage War
• Some Practical Considerations When Mediating Online!
• Feedback, Hot Buttons, and White Fragility
• Simple Magic – A haiku
• Canada – Parties can give court role to examine merits of settlement but not to examine merits of identical consent award
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Africa
• 3rd Key – Education: Teach Mediation as a Core Subject Aligned to Real World Needs
• 3rd Key-Education: Ensure the Future Through Mentoring and Practice Programs for New Mediators
• 3rd Key-Education: Include Learning in Psychology & Brain Science to Enhance Mediator Practice
• 3rd Key-Education: Train Mediators to be Culture-wise, not Culture-blind
• REACH the Three Components of Self-Determination
• Listening Sticks
• Therapeutic Alliances in Organizations
• The AAA-ICDR Foundation and How to Apply for Current Grant Funding
• In an ODR World, Is the Time Right to Switch to Multiple Shorter, Staggered Mediation Sessions?
• Interview with David Hoffman
• 4th Key-Professionalism: Act to Ensure Mediation is Respected as a True Professional Practice
• 4th Key-Professionalism: Modernize the Culture Driving Legal Practice
• 4th Key-Professionalism: Encourage Mediation and Arbitration Integration
• 4th Key-Professionalism: Create a Universal Code of Disclosure
• Canada: Interim Procedural Orders “Immune from Review” During Arbitration Even When Titled “Award”
• Canada: Refusal to Adjourn Hearing Respects Due Process if Recognition/Enforcement Conditions Present
• Using E-Mediation and Online Mediation Techniques for Conflict
• BATNAs and the Emotional Pains from “Positional Negotiation”
• Online Dispute Resolution: You Can Do This!
• Change Power is in the Process: When Listening is Not Enough
• Use Mediators and Police as Conflict Resolution Partners
• Reflective Practice – Observing Mediator Language
• Recent Court ADA Case Review for Conflict Resolution Practitioners
• The Second Mediator? The Role of Mediator’s Assistant
• 5th Key-Technology: Take Advantage of ODR’s Full Potential
• 5th Key-Technology: Embrace and Integrate Relevant New Technologies
• Interview with Richard Salem
• 6th Key-Government: Make Mediation a Prerequisite to Civil Litigation
• 6th Key-Government: Sign, Ratify, and Implement the Singapore Convention on Mediation
• 6th Key-Government: Actively Support UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, & Security
• 6th Key-Government: Help Governments Lead Mediation into the Mainstream
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Asia
• Facing the Conflict
• Mediators Needed in this Time Which Tries Our Souls
• Failing to Notice the Generosity of Others
• 7th Key-Usage: Invest to Generate Instinctive User Recognition and Demand
• 7th Key-Usage: Expand the Value of Mediation Into Deal-Making
• 7th Key-Usage: Forge a User-driven Vision for Mediation; Then Fund It
• Evaluative Approach
• Mediators Not Making Big Enough Difference
• The Seven Keys Conclusion: Many Paths, One Way
• What Do ‘Lay’ People Know About Justice?
• Let Communities and Police Together Keep the Peace: Op-Ed
• BATNA’S Got to Go
• Designing for the Intensity of Online Mediation
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Europe
• Telephone Mediation in an Age of Social Distancing: Does It Work?
• Legal Framework of Mediation in India and the Scope of Virtual Mediation
• Start in Mediation
• Working with People Who Don’t Want to Negotiate
• Mediation in the Legal Culture of Italian Lawyers: Some Data from an Empirical Study
• Parenting While Angry
• Did Traditional Mediation Die?
• Kristen Blankley: New Opportunities for Pro Bono in a Pandemic
• Demonstrating Reflective Practice
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Australia
• Advice to Aspiring Mediators
• To Prevent More George Floyd Tragedies, We Need Federal Peacemakers to Bring Communities and Law Enforcement Together
• Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19–Voices from Seven Continents of the World: North America
• Conflict Management in Other Countries
• George Floyd: A Call to White Leadership
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• Using Mediation for Family Business Disputes
• Behind the Legal Frustration
• Addressing Ethical Issues in Online Mediations
• Avoiding the Need for Workplace Dispute Resolution
• Are Mediators Neutral?
• Mediation Skillset is Essential For Our Survival
• Successful Mediation Techniques in Complex Disputes
• Online Dispute Resolution Pioneer Colin Rule Named Mediate.com CEO
• Family Violence and Family Mediation – Can the two go together?
• Mediating Disputes Involving Financially Shaky Defendants
• Make Your Next Apology Irresistible
• Separation in Isolation
• Problem Solving vs. Transformative Mediation
• Contract Exclusions Count
• Mumbai Set to Host India’s First Masters Course in Mediation
• Ministerial Panel on Extrajudicial Proceedings in Civil and Commercial Matters
• Managing Conflict at Home During COVID-19
• Congress Awakes!
• What Happens If You are Getting a Military Divorce?
• George Floyd: What Leaders Need To Do Now
• How to Help Parties With Disabilities Without Discriminating
• Field Combined Law and Social Work
• New NAA Opinion on Requiring Video Hearings
• Support Tools for Video Conferencing During ODR
• Why is This Mediation Different from All Other Mediations?
• The Mediators – Views from the Eye of the Storm Vol. I
• Teaching to Mediate
• Cultural Sensitivity While Training
• Mediation Past, Present, and Future
• Essence of Mediation
• Eye of the Storm Leadership
• Exploring Mediation in Netflix’s Tiger King
• Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): The Great Tool in Times of Pandemic
• Resolucion de Conflictos en Linea (ODR) La Gran Herramienta en Tiempos de Pandemia
• Facilitating Positive Change in the Workplace
• Tips for Divorcing Couples – Videos 2 through 5
• In Zoom We Trust
• Asking for Help When in Conflict
• The Kindness of Strangers During a Pandemic
• Co-parenting and COVID-19
• Why I Became A Mediator
• Getting Started in Mediation
• What Mediators Must Consider as They Work
• Fostering Mediation in the Middle East Construction Industry
• To Mediate (out of) Corona
• ODR Tips and Tricks
• Participatory Democracy is Motivation to Mediate
• Remembering The Keystone Conference
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• 4 Things You Definitely Need to Become an Accomplished Online Mediator
• Divorce & Managing Anxiety during COVID-19 – Video
• Surviving the Pandemic – Advice from 74 Family Experts
• COVID-19 World Disorder and Reflection for Conflict Management with the Use of ODR Platforms
• Empathy in Mediation
• Mediation vs. Arbitration
• Who Gets the COVID-19 Stimulus Check in the Divorce?
• Humor, Rapport, and Experience
• 10 Co-parenting Recommendations for the COVID-19 Crisis, A Mediator’s Perspective
• Mediating Amidst a Crisis: Is Online Mediation a Solution for India?
• Bold Moves
• Making Sense of COVID Through the Lens of Mediation
• Lessons from Teaching Facilitation Online
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• Will Your Relationship Survive the Coronavirus Lockdown?
• Post Coronavirus Dispute Resolution: To Sue or to Survive
• Transcending Mediation Models
• What Is Your Mediation Background?
• The Coronavirus Crisis Provides an Opportunity to Adopt Better Systems for Licensing Lawyers than the Bar Exam
• Impatience, Conflict, and Covid-19
• The Space Between Unpeace and Peace
• Five Reasons Why You Must Listen at Mediation
• Are Demographics Destiny for Technology in Mediation?
• The Mediators: Family Mediation Edition
• Mediating Families Are Closer Post-Divorce
• Transformative Mediation For All Cases?
• CRS in Battle of Wounded Knee
• Narrow v. Broad Problem Definition
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• Mediation and Leadership with Philosophies
• Research Shows We Can Work Toward Peace Through Understanding
• You Can Lead Trainings
• Helping Not Hoarding
• Using MagicEye to Teach the Art of Reframing
• The Brain Under Conflict
• Cutback Planning: Consultation in a Time of Retrenchment
• Sample Online Mediation Agreement to Mediate
• Asking Questions Instead of Giving Opinions
• Introducing a New Definition of Mediation
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• ODR in Africa: The Emergent Face of Dispute Resolution Post COVID 19
• The Next New Normal in Law, Dispute Resolution, and Legal Education
• Why?
• It’s Time to Talk….
• Be Kind
• Skills of Successful Mediators
• Interview with Jeff Krivis
• Crisis Communication & Covid-19: Did our politicians test positive for ‘empathy’?
• Interview with Don Saposnek
• Early Dispute Resolution Processes
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• Pulling Together
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• Research Concludes Regional International Organizations are Critical Mediators
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• Alternative Dispute Resolution in a Virtual World
• India Signs the Singapore Mediation Convention
• Interview with John Ford: The Future of Workplace Mediation
• Resolving Pressing Issues in Divorce Mediation (video)
• Mediators Green Pledge
• Consent in Mediation
• Co-Parenting During the Coronavirus Pandemic
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• 7 Financial Tips for Small Businesses Operating during the COVID Pandemic
• Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Career Resources
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• John Lewis Speech and Interview
• Old Dissolution Model Was Damaging
• Introducing Clients to Zoom Videoconferencing
• Negotiation is Replacing Litigation
• Building Trust Online: The Realities of Telepresence for Mediators Engaged in Online Dispute Resolution, 
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• Setting Up a New Zoom Account for Mediators
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• Every Dispute is Two Disputes
• Saving Homes, Building Understanding
• Mediation Dance-Writing
• This Mediation Failed. Or, Did It?
• How to Deconflict Situations for One’s Personal Benefit
• Mediation, Mediator, Mediation
• Keep the Heat On
• If You’d Only Told Me
• Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What It Is?
• Happy Thanksgiving !!!!
• How the Mediator Gains the Parties’ Trust
• Pump the Brakes
• Is the Einstellung Effect Interfering With Your Problem Solving?
• Good Work Meetings Promote Harmony, Lessen Conflict
• Carrying the Weight of Conflict
• When Did Bullying Stop Being Something that Only Happened in the Playground?
• Interview with Ken Cloke – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Seasonal ConRes Shopping Thoughts
• Mediation Myths: Barriers to the Use of Mediation
• Scorched Earth Clients: Mediating with High Conflict People
• Mediator Engagement in Politics – and other things we care about
• Free Expert Interviews for the 10 Toughest Behaviors at Work – Challenging Workplace Behavior Summit
• A Clear Description of Confidentiality in Mediation
• 7 Traits of the Modern Sociopath and Psychopath
• Forget the “Carrot and Stick” Approach!
• Zealous Advocacy Can Kill
• Mr. Rogers and the Power of Persuasion – Video
• Family Feud? Use Eldercaring Coordination for High Conflict in Eldercare
• Mediator as Judge
• What Should You Ask Your Mediator at the Initial Session?
• Dishonesty
• Denialism and Conflict
• The Power of Trying in Conflict Management
• Satisfying Our Clients’ Emotional Due Process Needs
• Heartbroken in Pittsburgh
• Don’t Dread Divorces this December
• Bringing Down a Giraffe
• Conflict in the 21st century- a revised look at our biology
• Two Points: Detrimental to any Mediation Process
• Another Wrong Arbitration Decision in New Jersey
• What is Child-Inclusive Mediation?
• Jim Melamed Selected For First APFM Outstanding Mediator Award
• The Mediation Advocate’s Alphabet
• 10 Do’s and Don’ts of Successful Co-Parenting After Divorce
• How Can We Fix Legal System Failures to Properly Handle Sexual Offenses?
• The Next Level of Impartiality
• Powerful Words on Inclusion and the Impact to Follow
• Ethical Fading
• Why Wouldn’t You Work Together to Solve Your Legal Problem?
• Blind Justice: Can Individuals Be Bound to Arbitration Clauses They Can’t Read?
• The Type of Problem That Makes Conflict Resolution Harder
• Concerns on the New Singapore Convention
• APFM: The Dream, Progress to Date, and New Goals
• Weapons and Sports Agents
• Mediation Power Imbalances: Weighing the Arguments
• What Do Marriage Counselors and Mediators Do?
• Interview with Chip Rose – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Book Review: The Master Agreement by Jay Bultz
• Mediation – Engaging the Rhythm of Polyvagal Regulation
• Like the Fireflies Generating Light
• Como Las Luciernagas Generando Luz – en espanol
• Family Mediation and Domestic Abuse
• Call for Community Mediation Surveys
• Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen!
• How to Break Free of An Addictive Relationship
• My Favorite Resource Featuring Catherine Geyer
• Why Do I Want You to Stay in the Room?
• Interview with Maxine Baker-Jackson – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Making Referrals to Divorce Mediation or Family Mediation
• Reality-Testing Questions for Real Life and Simulations – and Ideas for Stone Soup Assignments
• Never Make Assumptions About Colleagues
• Conflict Assumptions
• Interview with Margaret Shaw – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• R-E-S-P-E-C-T — Find Out What it Means to Me!
• Mandatory Pre-institution Commercial Mediation in India
• The Science of Negotiation
• Generating Multiple Options!
• The Mediation Miracle
• ODR as an Effective Method to Ensure Access to Justice: The Worrying, But Promising Brazilian Case
• Las Medidas Autosatisfactivas, en la Justicia Peruana
• Building Coalitions and Story Telling
• Peacemakers of All Faiths Gather at Ismaili Jamatkhana Plano for Restoring Community Day
• If I Had To Do It Again…
• Mediation Summit in Changsha, China
• Affirming the Good in Workplace Conflict—the positive role of affirmations
• Justice
• New Mediation Confidentiality Law
• Interview with Randy Lowry – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Why Don’t We Mediate the “Big” Disputes?
• Do We Need to Raise Our Voice?
• What Do Litigants Really Want?
• 3 Ways to Turn Adversaries into Problem-Solving Partners
• People-Pleasing
• Stop Giving Others Insult Power
• Sample Agreement To Mediate
• Team Diversity, Conflict and the Need for Robust Discussion – Part 1
• The Importance of Trust in the Mediator
• Co-Parenting Tips During a Divorce
• 5 Common Misconceptions Surrounding Family Mediation
• How Avoidance Can Help You with Workplace Conflict
• Paying Forward Conflict Lessons
• How to Express a Concern Without Making Things Worse
• 10 things to think about BEFORE you decide whether to litigate and which lawyer to hire
• Mediation and Conciliation in UAE
• Finale of Birbrower
• The Tax Reform Law Impacts Families
• Evaluative Mediation—Curriculum modules
• Revenge as a Learning Experience
• Feel The Earth Move – Shifts In The International Dispute Resolution Landscape
• Addressing Your Child’s Repressed Anger
• Meditate, Mediate, Medicate: Is there a Difference?
• Construction Mediation: Ten Tips for Success
• Children Find Peace in the Forest
• Italian Mediation Model – Video
• Dissing of Civil Discourse pt. 3
• Values Conflict
• International Arbitration-Federal Jurisdiction & Provisional Remedies
• How to Write an Effective Mediation Summary in 6 Steps
• Morality and Mediation: Can We Reunite the Children?
• Families Belong Together
• Construction – Early Completion, Who Owns the “Float”?
• A Case Study of Murphy’s Law in Missouri
• Past the Time Is the Right Time!
• Interview with Carrie Menkel-Meadow – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Sample Mediation Ground Rules
• Reconsidering How to Honor a Father’s Wishes
• Mediation in Juvenile Dependency Court: Multiple Perspectives – Part 2
• Conflicts over groundwater and aquifers profiled in recently-published book: Advances in Groundwater Governance
• Crisis Counselor Skills: Helping People In Crisis… in 160 Characters or Less
• In Praise of a Trial
• What Could be the Source of Modern Polarization?
• When Conflict In The Workplace Escalates To Emotional Abuse
• Interview with Don Saposnek – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• The Roots of Mediation in Florida and its Worldwide Influence
• Mediation in Juvenile Dependency Court: Multiple Perspectives
• An Alien Perspective
• The Narrative Arc of Conflict
• Career in Conflict Resolution?
• The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease
• The Exceptional Power of Vision
• Reframing
• Interview with Lisa Parkinson – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Prenuptial Agreements and the New Tax Law: Is There a Problem on the Horizon?
• Spiritual Journeys in a Material World: Thoughts about Spirituality for Divorce Professionals
• Nonverbal Communication, Difficult Conversations (and autonomous cars)
• Up Against a Wall
• 12 Tips for Mediating Complex Business and Government Disputes
• SOAS Arbitration in Africa Survey
• For Those Feeling Generous: A Gift for Clients, Friends – Book Review
• Lean into Liminality
• Ask Yourself This Kind of Question When an Argument Rattles You
• Being Grateful for Some Conflicts
• When Teachers, Parents, and Students are Victims of Stockholm Syndrome
• Establishing Rapport in Mediation
• Lessons from the Iroquois
• Leaving Facebook
• Lest We Forget
• Mediators Should Have Strategies and Skills to Break Impasses
• Doing Nothin’!
• Thinking About Using Mediation to Resolve Your Employment Dispute Without Going Through Litigation First?
• Bee in Your Bonnet
• Turning Ideas Into Action; Thoughts from Edinburgh
• Child Dependency Mediation Update
• Expectations and Self-Determination
• Keep Your Enemies Closer
• Exciting ADR Developments in China and Hong Kong
• In Isolation Together
• SCOTUS to Consider Delegation of “Wholly Groundless” Arbitrability Claims
• Dispute Resolution 101!
• Ten Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age
• Employment Arbitration Agreements Reach Epic Status
• I’m Not Neutral About Neutrality: I’m Partial to Multi-Partiality
• Building a Golden Bridge and Other Lessons from Dr. William Ury
• People Pleasers in Conflict
• Bullied or Mobbed? The Dangerous Search for Vindication
• Not Just Another Set of Lamb Chops!
• 7 Reasons Why You Should Keep Communicating
• Interview with Thomas Stipanowich – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• A Toddler’s Wisdom on Conflict Resolution
• Responsibility in Mediation: Who has it? – Part 2
• Getting a Divorce? Mediate, Don’t Litigate.
• Disability Mediation : An Overview
• Two Converging Trends
• The Conflict Iceberg
• ADR Forms, Methods and Practices
• Why Is Conflict Such a Big Deal?
• Interview with Andrew Schepard – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Measuring Progress on Team Agreements Worth Keeping
• Norms and Nonviolence
• “Trusting” the Expert
• Planners are No Long Generalists with a Specialty
• Responsibility in Mediation: Who has it?
• Top Ten Ways To Protect Your Kids From The Fallout Of A High Conflict Break-Up
• Interview with Larry Fong – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Mediation as a Modern Alternative Dispute Resolution Device – part 2
• Mediator Ethics: The Quest for Justice LEP Litigants and Bilingual Mediation
• BATNAs: A Practical Tool for Mediators and a Risk
• Never Underestimate the Importance of Emotional Intelligence
• The Edinburgh Declaration of International Mediators
• See That Lake Over There? Fancy a Swim?
• The Gang of Fourteen
• Interview with John Paul Lederach
• Everything Is Important, Still Nothing Is Important
• Mediation as a Modern Alternative Dispute Resolution Device – part 1
• A Modest Proposal
• Transformative Dialogue – The Salvation of Democracy?
• The Time for Dispute Resolution Alternatives (DRA) has come
• Being Good to Ourselves When in Conflict
• The Dissing of Civil Discourse pt. 2
• Interview with Michael Lang – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Why Everyone at Work Needs Conflict Management Skills (and how you can get them)
• The Cracks are Where the Light Gets In
• How to Take a Scientific Approach to Improving Employee Productivity
• DR Clauses in Contract
• Online Dispute Resolution: the “New Normal”
• Reflections on North and South Korea
• Adult Kids of Divorcees Should Be Spared from the Drama
• The Mann Gulch Fire
• Five Huge Benefits of Choosing Mediation
• 3 Reasons Agreements Get Derailed: Tales of Team Conflict
• Dissing of Civil Discourse pt. 1
• The Need For Preparation!
• Two-Step to Prioritize Relationship
• The New Handshake: Using ODR to Create Value for Consumers and Businesses
• Interview with Leonard Riskin – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• This Common (but faulty) Reasoning Leads to Bad Decisions
• Managing a Resentment Relapse at Work
• A New Anagram from Michael Leathes
• ADR Pilot Schemes and Programs
• How to Tank a Mediation Without Even Trying
• Two Simple Steps For A More Successful Mediation
• Meaning of Space and its Use in the Mediation Procedure
• Why I wrote “The Generous Prenup: How to Support Your Marriage and Avoid the Pitfalls”
• Interview with Jay Folberg – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• 3 Reasons Why You Want to Mediate Guardianship Disputes
• Listen to Your Heart, Not Your Friends & Family
• How Teams Can Work Together Despite Opposing Views
• People with Depression Use Language Differently – Here’s How to Spot it
• How to Lead with Less Anger
• An Update on Prior Disclosure
• Figuring Out George Mitchell’s Real Contribution to the Good Friday Agreement
• Interview with Howard Gadlin – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Want to Know the “Secret” to Managing Confrontational and Aggressive Behaviors?
• Does Your Practice Include Church and Synagogue Mediation?
• Amplifying Ombuds Trends with Data
• Team or Organizational Commitment?
• Recognizing The Signs Of A Conflict Storm
• Over Confidence Can Kill!
• Neutral Analysis: A Powerful and Effective Tool
• Backhanded Compliments
• The Ghosts of Melos
• Interview with Howard Bellman – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Restorative Practices in Juvenile Criminal Proceedings
• The Intractability Barrier in Child Dependency
• Start Protecting The Public Before Raising State Bar Fees
• Spaces for Peace
• If You Are Not Willing to Do the Unusual, You Will Have to Settle for the Ordinary
• Optimizing the Use of Joint Sessions in Mediation
• Why Are You And Your Sibling Fighting Over Your Parent’s House?
• Actualization and Transfiguration
• More FAQ’s from Mediators
• Ten Tips Toward Client Arbitration Satisfaction
• Social Media-tion: A Bridge for Young Mediators to Enter–and Re-Define–The Profession?
• What I Learned About Conflict From Cheetahs
• Healthy Disagreements Can Actually Bring You and Your Spouse Closer Together
• A Modest Proposal to Mitigate Sexual Harassment and Misconduct in the Workplace
• Conflict at Work—the Power of Envisioning Harmony
• Is the Overconfidence Effect Sabotaging Your Communication?
• Settlement Ethics 101
• Strategies for Giving Feedback That People Can Hear
• New Hope in Dealing With an Abusive Supervisor
• Conflict in Context
• Be a Glass Half-full Mediator
• Caucus: An Aid in Mediation
• Problem Solvers: New Profession
• Interview with Doug Yarn – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Splitting America Redux: Implications for Keeping our Kids Safe
• Healing Effects of Mediation on Kids to Achieve and Spread Infinite Positive Outcomes
• Playing the Blame Game the Right Way
• How to Understand Bad Feedback at Competitions and How to Tell What’s Good
• Mini-Grant Deadline Approaching for Community Mediation
• Working with Challenging Family Situations: A Mediator’s Perspective
• Why Ego Management is Key to Effective Mediation
• Interview with John Helie – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Negotiating Like a Woman – How Gender Impacts Communication between the Sexes
• The Joy Of Impasse: The Neuroscience Of ‘Insight’ And Creative Problem Solving
• Small Claims Courts 2.0 – Online Dispute Resolution in Action at Franklin County Municipal Court
• Damage Quantification in Delaware for Breaches of Contract in Post-Merger Litigation
• The Medium Makes the Difference!
• What it Takes to be Conflict Masterful
• Dispute Management Plans and ADR
• Supreme Court’s Grant of Cert Will Examine Difference Between “Arbitrability” and “Jurisdiction”
• Interview with Michael Lewis – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Miscellany: A Free Negotiation Teaching Package, Using Decision Trees in Mediation, and the Legality of BATNAs
• In Memorium: Perri Ellen Mayes, Leading Milwaukee Mediator – 1960 – 2018
• Mediators and Interpreters: A Team Approach
• Teaching Social Justice on Campus for Self Awareness, Community Sustainability, and Systems Change
• Change Is Coming: Tax Reform Act Punishes Divorcing Couples
• Difficult Conversations in the Modern Era of (Anti-) Social Media
• Conflict Styles: Digital vs Paper
• SCOTX Holds Payday Lender Did Not Waive Right to Arbitration
• How to Backpedal After Saying the Wrong Thing
• Eye of the Storm Leadership: Closure at Appomattox
• In Memoriam: Frank E.A. Sander, pioneer in ADR (1927-2018)
• Norwegian Legislature to Consider Mandating Student Ombuds for All Universities
• Video Presentation: 50 Ways to Break an Impasse: Tips, Tricks, Traps and Tools
• Styles of Mediation: Facilitative, Evaluative, and Transformative Mediation
• A Conversation With Antonio Piazza
• How to Get Rid of 80% of Your Unhappiness in Relationships
• How Turkey Went from Virtually Zero to 30,828 Mediations in Just One Month
• Reflections on Parkland, from a Broward County Parent / Conflict Resolution Practitioner
• You Look Like Someone I Can Trust!
• Spirituality of Conflict Transformation
• Letting Conflict Define Us
• Managing Conflict with your Inner Critic
• The Force Present in a Truly Transformative Mediation
• ADR in the Spirit of the Season
• Court-based Dispute Resolution
• Being Sorry
• Setting Boundaries with a Workplace Bully
• Can this Key Ingredient Protect Your Marriage from Relationship Conflict?
• 4 Game-Changing Tips to Build Your Divorce Mediation Practice
• Interview with Joseph Stulberg – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Stone Soup: Do the Best Trainings, Continuing Education, Programs, and Conference Sessions You Can
• FAQ’s from Mediators
• Do Android Mediators Dream of Electric Agreements?
• Educating the Dispute Resolvers of the Future
• Talking Stick Breaks Impasse
• Make Mediation a Life Skill and a Core Value
• Mediating With Sharks Is No Walk In The Park
• Gone, But Not Forgotten
• World Health Organization Ombuds Says Dysfunctional Management is Impacting Mission
• The NFL Can Make a Difference by Choosing Mediation
• Conflicting Negotiation Styles and Strategies: Comparing Perspectives from Saudi Arabia & USA
• Ask the Judge – Do I need an Attorney’s Help to Create a Parenting Plan?
• Three Quotations from Lincoln on Conflict Resolution
• What Does the 2017 Tax Law Mean for Divorcing Couples?
• I Like You!
• Listening to Your Triggers – How to Suspend Judgment When You Are Angry
• Mediating Family Property and Estate Conflicts: Keeping the Peace and Preserving Family Wealth
• Eye of the Storm Leadership: The Quirky Art of Mugwumps
• California Legislature Hears Testimony on Role of Ombuds in Sexual Misconduct Matters
• Three Easy Pieces
• Spark a Shift in Perspective with this Question
• Criminal Justice and ADR
• Shift Dynamics with One Word
• In Memoriam: Joseph Markowitz
• Mediation Models: What is Best?
• Chipping Away at Self-determination
• Language Patterns and Mediation
• Accommodator? No, How About “Invisible”?
• Hiring a Divorce Attorney? Buyer Beware
• Making Peace Our Business
• Stone Soup: Takeaways from New Hampshire Mediation Training
• In Memoriam: CPR Chairman Emeritus Charles Renfrew
• Is an Adversarial Process Our Best and Highest Good? The Case for Early Mediation
• Interview with Larry Susskind – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Mediating Blood Feuds in the Cretan Mountains
• Champions of Peace
• When the Day is Done
• The Picasso Trick for Better Problem Solving
• Three Surprising Leadership Skills
• Objections to Joint Sessions
• Interview with Marvin Johnson – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• ACCUO Publishes Study of Ombuds’ Impact
• On the Road to Solutions that Work for All
• Why Gray is My Favorite Color
• Overcoming Clients’ Road Blocks in Conflict Management Coaching
• The Role of the Apology in Abuse Redress Schemes
• Confusing Dispute Resolution Jargon
• Conflict Resolutions for 2018!
• Arbitration of Criminal Plea Bargains? A Step Too Far Says Ninth Circuit
• Children and ADR
• Letter to Kelly
• End of the Year: The Kids are Alright
• Plan Teambuilding Now
• Mediating Minimally
• Addressing Inequality and Systemic Oppression: How to Interrupt the Increasing Gap Between the Haves and Have-Nots?
• The Arbitration from Hell and How the New York Courts Got It Wrong
• Eye of the Storm Leadership: Guerilla Bridge Building
• Mediation Advocacy Beyond the Norm
• ISO Strong Mediator
• Tips for Keeping the Kids out of the Conflict
• When it Seems Trivial, Pay Close Attention
• When Your Boss Is A Bully
• I Would Never …
• Interview with Peter Adler – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• IOA to Offer International Scholarships to 2018 Conference
• Do You Use “BATNA” Wrong?
• The Four Questions Of Anger
• Dear Self-Represented Client
• Inner Tools to Survive Workplace Bullying (part 2)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and ADR
• Do colleges and universities in America do more harm than good? Of course not!
• Family Business Succession: The Joys and Challenges
• Restoring Autonomy to the Clients – A Mediator’s True Calling?
• Dividing the Marital Home
• It’s Not Just the Romantic Stuff That Makes a Marriage Special
• Getting Woke: How Do We Awaken A Sense Of Injustice?
• Embracing ADR
• Mind Mapping and the Transformative Framework
• Interview with Jim Coben – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Lawyer-Mediators: Time to Update your Mediation Agreement?
• Attention Mediators in the State of Texas: Mandatory Training Required for Family Neutrals by January 2018
• Anger Has Its Benefits !!
• Conflict Audit: How Much Is Conflict Costing Your Organization?
• Take Five! – How Adults Can Benefit From A Time Out
• Mind Your Own Beeswax
• Interview with Michelle LeBaron – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• The NFL Should Try Mediation First
• Lessons From the ABA’s Excellent Report on Mediator Techniques
• Argue For Your Limitations
• 4 Quick Techniques to Help You Think Straight in an Argument
• Inner Tools to Survive Workplace Bullying
• SCOTUS to Hear Oral Argument Over Constitutionality of Review of Patents
• An Overview of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct in the Context of Mediation
• In Praise of (Good) Disagreements
• Divorce Mediation: A Prototype for Positive Co-Parenting
• How Will the Way We Resolve Our Workplace and Family Business Disputes Impact our Thanksgiving Meal?
• Universities are Underinvesting in Efforts to Improve the Quality of Teaching
• Roundup: Legislation with Mediation or Arbitration…Maybe for the future?
• Bringing Your Best Self to a Conflict
• Conciliation
• Interview with Robert Mnookin – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Lawyer Negotiation: Theory, Practice & Law – Book Review
• The Case for a Fresh Approach to Commercial Cross-Border Mediation
• It Happened in Mediation – Believe It or Not
• The Question That Brings Hamster Wheel Debates to a Standstill
• Crying Your Eyes Out
• I Apologize For Suggesting It !
• Courts and Attorneys Aren’t Doing Enough to Inform Litigants about Their ADR Options
• Article Profiles Role of Higher Ed Ombuds as Workplace Conflict Experts
• Addressing Injustice: Why and How Do People Seek Justice?
• ‘Think Like a Mediator’ Conflict Resolution Program at Rikers Island
• Singapore: The Hub of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
• ADR in the Regulation of Aged Care
• The Only Impartial Direction is Up
• Go Back to the Future to Discover How Your Agreement Could Fail
• The One That Got Away
• Mediation Creates and Spreads Infinite Love
• Negotiation – Part 7
• What Not to Say After Violence
• Bidding Against Yourself
• Which Mediator Techniques Are Most Effective? Report Points to Some with Potential
• A Grand Theory of Personality and Environment
• Realizing Our Professional Goals
• The Kindness of Strangers—Wildfires, Empathy, and Conflict
• Legal Battle Continues After Arbitrator Upholds Suspension of Dallas Cowboys Running Back
• Family Counseling to Resolve Conflict?
• Micro-Inequities
• Interview with Nina Meierding – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• What ADR Professionals Can Learn from Litigating Divorce Lawyers
• Bio-physiology and DR
• Prevalence of Employment Arbitration is Measured
• Difficult Conversations Deplete the Brain’s “Processing Power”
• Changing Your Direction in Conflict
• How Conflict Is Like Sex
• Consumer Mediation in the European Union: A Beginner’s Guide to Mediation Under Directive 2013/11/EU
• The Larger Room
• Sunk Costs and the California Law Revision Commission
• When in Conflict, Ask Yourself, “What are the unmet needs?”
• From Litigation to Conflict Resolution
• Teambuilding Exercises
• “Costs Follow Conduct” – A Musical Altercation
• Character Traits Of Working Dogs And Conflict Mediators: ‘Systematic Intuition’ And Tenacity
• Traits of a ‘Mediator’
• Interview with Zena Zumeta – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• All for One … One for All: Collaborative Process Or Collaborative Lifestyle
• Ten Reasons Why Mediation Creates a Holistic Approach in Generating More Love & Compassion in Family Conflicts
• ADR Clusters and Hotspots
• Conflict Chat: Challenges In Working In A Gig Economy – Audio
• Expanding The Benefits of An Apology!
• Moving Workplace Conflict from Dysfunctional to Functional
• How Does Your Mediator Add Value?
• What Leads to Cooperation and Competition?
• Bite My Tongue
• Disagreeing
• Why You Should Avoid Trial and Mediate Instead!
• Your Rules/Their Rules in Conflict Management
• 10 Things to Consider Before Signing a Prenuptial Agreement
• What are the Fundamental Dimensions of Social Relationships?
• Gerry Spence, Marshall McLuhan, and What Lawyers Do In Mediation
• A Fat Bias: Implicit or Explict?
• Joint Session: A Tale of Two Mediations
• What Is Wrong With My Good Intentions?
• ADR and Religion
• What is Your Goal? Winning or Fixing?
• Join the Resistance
• How Can We Build Common Ground Between Bubbles? – Revisited
• How ADR Can Help Keep Confidential Agreements Confidential
• Educating the Next Generation in Conflict Resolution: A Review of “Trouble at the Watering Hole: The Adventures of Emo and Chickie” – Book Review
• When Does Conflict Move in a Good or Bad Direction?
• Private Dispute Resolution in International Business; Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration – Book Review
• Mastering the Art of Negotiation – Book Review
• Spirit of Dialogue – Book Review
• The Role of Emotional Intelligence in HealthCare: Bridging the Gaps of Communication
• Using ADR Ideas to Negotiate Divorce Agreements
• When a Dispute “Win” May Prove Shortsighted
• Accountability of ADR Practitioners
• Arbitration: Third Party Funding Developments in Asia
• I Hear You
• Why Case Consultation/Reflective Practice Groups Matter for Mediators
• Med/Arb in Business Cases: Dispute Resolution Whose Time Has Come
• Doing Your Homework Before Mediation: Increasing the Likelihood of Success
• Big Data, Urban Science and the Search for New Ways of Improving Life in the City
• Civil Conversations with “the Enemy”—A Tool for Working through Conflict
• Online Arbitration as a Remedy for Crowdfunding Fraud
• Dealing with Causes as Well as Symptoms of Law Students’ and Lawyers’ Lack of Well-Being
• IBA-VIAC CDRC Vienna 2017 – Where Mediation and Negotiation Cross Borders
• Commenting on Tentative Recommendation
• World Peace: How Do We Keep Nations from Thermonuclear War?
• Do Not Let Your CEO Even Read This!
• Access to Justice and ADR
• Litigation vs ADR – Different Strokes for Different Folks
• Negotiation – Part 6
• Into the Mediator’s Gray Zone
• Mediate.com Helps Divorcing Couples Resolve and Learn From Conflicts
• The Psychology and Neurobiology of Mediation
• How to Talk About Mental Health Without Offending Everyone – TEDx
• Living the Dream of ADR: Reflections on Four Decades of the Quiet Revolution in Dispute Resolution (Symposium Keynote)
• Master the 7 Steps to Conflict Transformation
• Misclassification in the Sharing Economy: It’s the Arbitration Agreements
• Mediators, Can We Shift Perspectives on the “Blind Men and the Elephant” Story?
• Elementary, My Dear Watson!
• Why Don’t Transformative Mediations Get Violent?
• Time, Money, and Happiness
• Interview with Bernie Mayer – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Soft Skills Are Back in Style
• Prenup? That’s Good News!
• The Need to Dance; the Fear of Failure
• Knowing our Neighbours – a Mediator’s Reflection
• Access to Information and Justice: Where does ODR lead us to?
• Formula for Success
• What “The Blind Men and the Elephant” Can Teach Us About Perspective at the Mediation Table
• Children, Divorce, and Dating
• Bargaining in the Light of the Law: The Case of Divorce
• Increased Complexity of Commercial Disputes Requires a New Approach
• 5 Tips for Adding Video to your Mediation Practice
• Student Welfare at the University of Cambridge Received a Funding Boost
• Bill Richardson: America’s hostage negotiation strategy is broken
• Contemplating the Need for more Peacebuilders
• If You Want Your “Day in Court”, Don’t Go to Court
• Cooperation with a Competitor
• Peacemaking, Justice, Restoration, and Forgiveness
• 5 Reasons to Choose Mediation to Solve A Dispute
• Serious Gaming in Water
• Why Do I Love What I Do?
• Interesting China Conference
• A Lovely Story That Explains How We Manage Our Feelings …
• How Yes/And Defuses Workplace Conflict
• A California Correction? Legislature Will Consider Allowing Attorney Malpractice Proof from Mediation
• Co-Parenting
• Mediation.com Refuses Refund to Family of Mediator Who Died
• California Mediation Confidentiality Will End, Unless…
• Culturally Competent Compassion in Mediation
• Let It Go? You’re Kidding!
• Introduction to the Stone Soup Project Mini-Course
• Ten Duel Commandments
• If Only…?
• Why Bother with Yellow Flowers When You Really Want a Turtle?
• When Change Happens: Embracing The End First Before Starting Anew
• The CLRC’s Tentative Recommendation on Mediation Confidentiality!
• The Global Pound Conference Reaches Its Conclusion: User Focus Is Now Mainstream
• The ADR Imperative to Ensure Access to Justice
• Conscious and Unconscious Thinking in Mediators
• California Supreme Court Sets Up Showdown at U.S. Supreme Court over Arbitration Agreements
• Massachusetts Divorce: How Long Does it Take?
• Mediating Disputes for Effective Healthcare Relationship Firefighting
• Did They Teach You This In Law School?
• Is It Time?
• How Mediation Works: Theory, Research, and Practice – Book Review
• California Law Revision Commission Recommendations
• When the Empty ADR Chair Is Occupied by a Litigation Funder
• WIN-WIN in Practice: Mediation Helping with Sports Disputes and Sports Disputes Helping Mediation
• Co-Mediation: When Two Heads Are Better Than One
• The New SHRM Competency Guidelines
• Why Should I Mediate?
• Divine Listening and Managing Conflict
• 5 Counter-intuitive Conflict Resolution Habits Worth Developing
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• DOJ Flips on Class Waivers Issue
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• The International Evolution of Mediation: A Call for Dialogue and Deliberation
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• Get Out Of MY Parking Spot! What To Do When You Get Triggered?
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• Conversation with Heather Kulp About ADR Careers
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• Interview with Bill Hartgering – Views from the Eye of the Storm
• Listening to a Different Voice
• An Australian and a Canadian Walk into a California Law Revision Commission Meeting… And Listen.
• Serendipity
• Whatever You Do, Don’t Buy a Discount Baboon
• Control Addict – My Life As A Recovering Micromanager
• SCOTUS Denies Cert in Nursing Home Arbitration Case
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• Tips for Mediators Feeling the Heat of Hysteria
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• How Do We Achieve Racial Equality Within Mediation? More Questions than Answers
• Are You Letting This Common Habit Get in the Way of Effective Mediating?
• Is Proportionality of Discovery Good or Bad?
• Of Oysters and Unfortunate Injuries
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• Changing Our Habits !
• Mediation: Staying Culturally Relevant In A Multicultural World
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• Is Revertigo Fueling Conflict at Your Workplace?
• Oregon Supreme Court on Mediation Confidentiality
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• An Update on Dilts v. Penske Logistics
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• How You Can Triumph in the Race of Life
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• e-Mediation: A New Stage of Ethics
• E-Mediacion: ¿Un Nuevo Escenario Deontologico?
• Get More from Workplace Mediation, It’s Not a 1 Trick Pony!
• Talk the Talk: Negotiation with Somali Pirates
• The Importance of Silence in Conflict Conversations
• People Like Me Now!
• Technological Advances Help Resolve Disputes
• How to Truly Advance the Needs of the Child between Separated Parents
• Neuquén, apuesta a la Mediación
• Promoting Online Dispute Resolution in Africa – A Simple, Pragmatic Approach
• Just Listen
• Are You Safe From Mixed Messages?
• Which System Would the Jury Use?
• The Conflict Pivot: Turning Conflict into Peace of Mind
• When a Former Boyfriend Gets Added into the Mix
• Do You Have a Conflict Habit?
• Invisibility: My New Super-Power
• Going Natural– to Resolve Conflict?
• Is It “Culture Versus Law”? – Learning about Cultural Sensitivity in Family Disputes
• Intercultura Y Resolucion de Conflictos
• How to Use ‘Nudge’ to Encourage More Parties into Mediation
• Do You Have Your Primary Care Lawyer?
• “¿Es posible vivir de la mediación?” ¡Último online del año por Alberto Elisavetsky! Evento no arancelado
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• To Vent or Not to Vent, That is the Question!
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• Interview with Joe Folger – Views from the Eye of the Storm
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• BATNA, MLATNA – No Big Difference, Right?
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• 7 Simple Practices for Staying Calm in an Argument
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• Asking the Tough But Necessary Questions!
• Want Better Work Team Conflict Management? Begin By Assessing “Conflict Climate” Online
• Mediate.com Offers New Responsive Site
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• The 7 Strategies for Determining Your Parenting Plan
• Who Says That Mediation Needs Reclaiming?
• What’s the Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy?
• In Many Respects, Women are People Too…
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• To Be Effective, Mediators Should Learn to be More . . . Stupid?
• COA Orders Employment Discrimination Case to Arbitration
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• The Hague Convention, Seven Characteristics, and Mediation
• Dispute Resolution Systems and the Future of Our Field
• Death and Conflict are Part of Life
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• 5 Common Beliefs About Conflict That are Dead Wrong
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• Quartet
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• Why Do We Do These Things?
• Bad Day at JAMS, Part 2
• Divorce Mediation: The Best Forum for Families with Special Needs Children
• Why Caseload Manager?
• Tom Brady: “We have all lost”
• Deflategate: A Win for Arbitration
• Negotiating with the Dangerous at Fordham Law School
• HR’s Role in Investigations Should Be Restricted, Finds Appeal Tribunal
• Yes, it Does Matter What Others Think of You
• Survey Says: Institutions Could Do A Lot To Improve
• The Upside of Anger
• Update on Mediate.com Mediator Certification Program
• Getting “the Good Stuff” from Feedback
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• HR’s Role in Investigations Should Be Restricted
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• What is Court ADR? Clearing Up Some Misconceptions
• Stop and Think … Before Suing!
• Police Negotiators Who Helped Rock Hill Woman in Bell Tower: Peaceful Resolution is Bottom Line
• So What is a Meitheal Anyway?
• European Commission publishes Draft Establishment of an International Investment Court
• Being Creative with Child Support
• Do You Fall Prey to the Einstellung Effect in Problem Solving?
• Ride Sharing Arbitration Agreement is Socially Unconscionable
• What Makes Lawyers Happy? – And How Can You Help?
• California Confidentiality Will End Unless You Take Action Now!
• Staying Present: What Couples and Mediators Long For
• Officers Join the Peace Party
• Restorative Justice to Handle Sexual Assault Cases at Universities?
• How Likely Am I to Win? Risk, Uncertainty & the Turkey Illusion
• Sawubona: I See You
• Keep it Simple. Keep it Interesting.
• Legal Costs and ‘Mediation Receptivity’
• Arbitrating Antitrust Claims From Suspicion to Trust
• Teamwork
• Second Thoughts on Mediation Confidentiality
• Book Review Policy
• New Impasse-Busting Techniques – Part 2
• Arbitrating Antitrust Claims: From Suspicion to Trust
• Yes, Make them Negotiate
• Some Food for Thought Over Labor Day Weekend
• “Perversion of Law” in Chinese Criminal Law – An Indiscriminate Legal Weapon Against Arbitrators
• Rudeness Begets Rudeness!
• Mediation in Turkey
• Facilitating Disagreement
• Scientific Mediation
• Keep Mediation and Arbitration Separate?
• Tips for Lawyers Who Want to Get Good Results for Clients and Make Money
• Reasoned Awards in International Commercial Arbitration
• Cyberweek en Espanol
• The Transformative Lawyer
• Whistleblower Cases are Custom Tailored for ADR
• What’s Next? – Practical Ponderings on Arbitrators and Overturned Jurisdictional Awards
• Straight Outta Compton
• What if Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Reacted to Simon & Rhoades on Imperati on Bush and Folger!
• Unravelling Cultural Diversity in Mediation
• Mediation as a “Disruptive Innovation”
• Transforming Disputes into Transactions via Collaborative Law
• Crisis Negotiation: From Suicide to Terrorism Intervention
• Update on Mediation Confidentiality
• Openings, Part 2
• 3 Things Your Mediator Probably Won’t Tell You
• Laying the Table
• The Downside of Arb-Med-Arb Procedures
• On the Question of a Party’s Capacity to Use Mediation
• There’s Never Been A More Important Time To Learn About Effect
• Patent Arbitration: It Still Makes Good Sense
• No Sour Grapes in this Conflict
• Are You Seeing the Benefit of Soft Skills?
• Conversation with Peter Benner About PEDR, Part 6
• You Can Observe a Lot Just By Watching
• Melvin Alvin Max Rubin
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• The Effects of Climate Change Are All Local: Here’s What You Can Do to Help Manage the Risks
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• Labels are for Cans, Not for People
• An Action Plan for Family Business Conflicts
• Some Valuable Learning Points From Recent Mediations
• What Mediation and Marathon Running Have in Common
• Managing Difficult Behavior: Lowest Level of Intervention First
• Empathy – Part 2
• Obama Announces Change in Hostage Policy
• Sometimes You Need to Give Them Reasons to Mediate
• Colin J. Wall Memorial
• Problem-solving Effectiveness of Sports Mediation
• Embracing “Cultural Diversity” in Mediation
• Empathy – Part 1
• Openings
• The UNCITRAL Convention on Enforceability of Settlement Agreements Resulting from International Commercial Mediation
• Litigation vs. Mediation – “Child’s Play” for Understanding Your Options
• Just to be clear: Family Court Doesn’t Resolve Conflict
• Legal Informed Consent Includes Knowing Your Legal Process Options
• Seeing the World Through Others’ Eyes
• Make the Most of Your Mediation: The Single-Family Construction Defect Case
• Comparing Arbitration and Mediation as ADR tool for Workplace Conflict
• How to Become a Successful Mediator
• The Future of Mediation: Changing the Default of Fault
• Counting the Cost of Conflict
• The Long Path to Immediate Forgiveness
• Mediation Marathon
• On Civility: Mediation and Ethics Part 2
• Finding a Maryland Divorce Mediator
• Book Review: Handbook of Positive Supervision for Supervisors, Facilitators, and Peer Groups
• What is Integrative Law? The Emergence of a New Legal System
• Dear Futures Project: What I Think I Know
• In An Interdependent World There Is No Them And Us, Only Us
• “Justice” Report for England and Wales: A Missed Opportunity for Radical Change
• Solving the Growing Never Married Parent Dilemma for Courts and Divorce Professionals
• Roommate Negotiations
• Avoiding the Uncertainty of a Medical Malpractice Trial
• The Cincinnati Police-Community Relations Collaborative as a National Model for Improving Police-Community Relations Today
• Making Better Use of Mediation to Resolve Disputes and Manage Difficult Issues
• Researchers Identify Useful Negotiation Strategies for ‘Honor Cultures’
• Why Taking the High Road to Deflate “Deflategate” is Important
• “Bags of Trouble”
• Consolidation and Conflict in the Health Care Industry
• The Surprising Way to Ask Better Questions in Conflict
• Lawyers of the Future on Mediation: Threat or a Promise?
• Trade Negotiations
• Designing a Successful Parenting Plan
• E-MARC 2015 – Reseña y Contenidos Generales
• Say it Ain’t So, Marge and Homer!
• Missourri Declares it Unconscionable for NFL Commissioner to Arbitrate Employment Dispute
• So You Think You Don’t Need Dispute Resolution in Your Organisation?
• Planning is Critically Important for Early Dispute Resolution
• Walk it Out to Work it Out
• Compliance Success with Mediated Settlements in Small Claims
• Overcoming Reluctance to Engage in Mediation
• Dissolution- Don’t let the Resolve Dissolve
• Separated Parents and the Continuum of Conflict
• A Maddening Nevada Supreme Court Case
• The Little Things in Our Relationship Won’t Ruin Us
• A Pregnant Pause: Using ADR to Resolve Pregnancy-Related Workplace Issues
• Intent…Action….Effect!
• The 2016 Global Pound Conference Series
• Mediating Early and Late
• Seeking “Justice”
• Musings of a Long Time Arbitrator
• Beyond “Divorce American Style”: The Search for a More Responsive Process
• Why Mediation Would Benefit In The Adrian Peterson Saga
• Presenting Your Presentation: A Few Words
• Let’s Talk: Charlie Hebdo, Immigration, Terror and Prejudice — Notes Toward a Proposal for Dialogue over Difficult and Dangerous Issues
• Settle Your Personal Injury Claim Before A Lawsuit Is Filed
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• Competition to Cooperation
• In This Corner: The Antisocial Personality Disorder (It’s all about me!) Hostage-taker
• Workplace Systemic Issues: Do Your Leaders Really Want to Know?
• Bearing Witness to Suffering: Mediating in the Shadow of Pain
• Asking Tough Questions About Mandatory Arbitration and Article III
• The Good Divorce
• Outwitting Cognitive Dissonance
• Recipes for Success
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• Waiving the Right to Arbitrate in the United States: Should the Prejudice Requirement be Discarded?
• Control Your Emotions Better by Labeling Them
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• Where We Have Been, Where We Are, and the Road That Lies Ahead
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• Help! I Need Somebody. Help! Not Just Anybody
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• Instead of Eliminating Negotiation, How About Eliminating Backlash?
• Federal Arbitration Case Update | Bound and Determined
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• Just Be Reasonable
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• A Top Ten List of Keys to Success in Court-Ordered Mediation
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• Whisper, “Here’s My Contact Information; Don’t Accept Anything Until We’ve Talked.”
• Use and Perception of International Commercial Mediation and Conciliation: An Empirical Study
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• And What is Your Biggest Achievement in Mediation?
• To Build Rapport- Laugh Together!
• Getting on the Same Page Regarding Mediation in the Future
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• Always Expect the Unexpected
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• Federal Employment Case Update: Pizza and Beer
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• Good Practice Framework
• Ellen Pao: Reddit has Stopped Negotiating Initial Salaries
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• The Medici Effect of Mediation
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• Both Textbook and Handbook – Lisa Parkinson’s “Family Mediation” – Book Review
• Moving from the Shadows into the Sunlight
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• Bodies at Work: Moving Toward Alchemy
• Expanding Mediation’s Future: Integrating Party Self-Determination with other Mediation Principles that can Aid Party Understanding and Truly Informed Decision Making
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• How to Be a Problem-solving Superhero Without Fixing it Yourself
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• Is This the Best Dispute Resolution We Can Do?
• Mediation Confidentiality Strikes Again
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• Musings on Mediators, Pizza-Makers, and Humanity
• The Future of Mediation: Teens and Technology
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• 5 Tips to Prepare for Mediation
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• Our Narratives Reflect Who We Are
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• The Mediator’s Log: A Mediation Story – Section 3
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• Why I Said “HR Should Be Ashamed of Itself”
• When Your Boss Won’t Change
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• Why Our Practice Areas Include Special Education Cases
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• After the Conflict is Resolved
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• What Happens to Temporary Loan Modifications Reached in Foreclosure Mediation?
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• Looking to the Future of Mediation
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• Mediation Advocacy – Countdown to a Successful Mediation
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• Beyond “Half Full or Half Empty” – Getting the Right Glass
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• I Hate When He . . .
• Amarillo COA Holds Arbitration is Required in Construction Fee Dispute
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• Great Workplaces
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• New AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules are Now in Effect
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• Mediators, Transformed and Untransformed
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• Preventing Conflict in the Workplace by Taking Time for Yourself
• Texas Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Whether Construction Dispute Should be Arbitrated
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• Law Professor Transformed
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• Philosophy
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• Is Adjudication a Public Good?
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