Category: Community

PRESS RELEASE: August 24, 2010 Eugene, OR USA Mesa, AZ USA NAFCM and Mediate.com Announce Agreement to Bring Community Mediation...

Linda Singer shares her thoughts on why mediation is not as popular a service and field as it should be:...

Glenn Sigurdson believes mediation is a field. He says mediators build processes for problems not the other way around which...

This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Terry Wheeler, former President of the Association for Conflict Resolution, filmed...

The San Francisco Police Department's Chief of Police, George Gascon, recently met with the local Community Board to praise their...

The most widely used mediation model places an emphasis on helping people find common ground. His model is different. Transformative...

Randy Lowry describes the growth and integration of mediation and negotiation into the court system to where judges want to...

David Hoffman emphasizes the need for more racial/ethnic diversity in the field in order to have the widest reach, broadening...

Larry Susskind speaks of the importance of being transparent and honest with participants and the elected officials in a public...

Linda Singer explains that the most critical element of her mediation approach is having patience. This tends to be difficult...

See all DVD Previews at www.mediate.com/Previews. Access all Nina Meierding videos here.This is a preview of "Cultural & Gender Issues...

Appeared in CONFLICT RESOLUTION QUARTERLY, vol. 27, no. 1, Fall 2009 © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. and the Association for Conflict...

From John Folk-Williams's blog Cross Collaborate Increasingly, leaders and managers are looking to collaborative methods for dealing with contentious policy...

Jay Folberg describes his start in the field, which came from himself and others trying to resolve conflicts and divorces between people...

Howard Bellman describes his early days mediating strikes in Wisconsin. He felt he was providing an important service for the...

Often when I speak about conflict and dispute resolution I mention three words that I consider to be my mantra...

First published in Oregon Mediation Association Newsletter, Spring 2009.The other day I was having breakfast and was about to open...

Richard Salem describes his time serving as an intermediary between police and the black panthers in Richmond, California.

Chip Rose compares mediation with collaborative law and notes that in mediation he is able to meet with parties in...

Linda Singer talks about two kinds of justice: a rights-based justice, which the courts enforce, and an interest-based justice, which...

Hugh McIssac discusses the transformative approach and how it is closer to a therapeutic process than one where the main...

Ken Cloke describes how the goal of training is to provide the student with structure and steps, enabling them to...

From the Mediation Matters Blog of Steve Mehta.A city in Arizona is reintroducing a mediation program to help people resolve...

Marvin Johnson speaks of his earlier years before he practiced mediation professionally. He recognizes that he had a tendency to...

Michelle LeBaron explains her work as interrupting people's dance within a conflict.

John Paul Lederach explains how mediators need to shift their focus from mediating a person to mediating a space in...

Restorative justice is the criminal version of civil mediation.  It stresses accountability, admission of guilt, forgiveness and reconciliation.  It is...

The term ‘constructive ambiguity’ is often attributed to Henry Kissinger and is a negotiating tactic used to cover up areas...

Reprinted from The Pennsylvania Lawyer, September/October 2008Louis Kushner has done an extensive amount of traveling. From China to Poland to...

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