Category: Diversity & Inclusion

ADR Prof BlogAs the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend comes to an end, and as a new semester is beginning,...

The new movie Selma depicts the events that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. There has...

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” (Nelson...

Mediation has long been a matter of contention in Italy. First introduced by a government decree in 2011, mandatory mediation...

A. Background Occupy Central (“OC”) has been promoted as a peaceful civil disobedience movement in Hong Kong where the leaders...

Have a look at the following. It reminds me firstly of Bernie Mayer's Beyond Neutrality- if we as conflict resolution...

Hace 17 años en Costa Rica se promulgó la Ley Sobre Resolución Alterna de Conflictos y Promoción de la Paz...

What a remarkable turnaround we witnessed today in Ferguson, Missouri, where five days of protests in the wake of the...

Internationally prominent trainer Nina Meierding shares with her class how to be culturally sensitive during mediation with non-verbal cues.

Kluwer Mediation BlogIn February 2014, the Litigation and Arbitration Practice of international law firm Hogan Lovells announced the findings of...

Courts in the UK impose cost sanctions on parties who unreasonably refuse or fail to mediate. In the US, mediation...

The second portion of this study is available here. This study was authored by: Zeno Daniel SUSTAC, Romania Dr. Jamie...

Mediators are fond of pointing out the transformative effects of successful mediation in the world of peacebuilding and so it...

Please view Part 1 here. Must a Bilingual Mediator possess a native language skill?   There are no mentioned levels...

Building on the success of an international partnership with the Athens based Hellenic Mediation and Arbitration Centre, members of the...

Intercultural Mediation Abstract Throughout times, Intercultural Mediation in China has become the preferred method for Dispute Resolution, besides preserving social...

As a Mediator, we have the role to steer clients to reconcile their differences in an arena where they mutually...

As mediators we have been taught that disputes are more likely to be people-problems than legal-problems. Instead of listening only...

Latino America Blog by Alberto ElisavetskyLos mecanismos en línea que se vienen implementando en todo el mundo para la resolución...

JAMS ADR Blog by Chris Poole Mediation, as a form of dispute resolution, relies heavily on the mediator’s ability to...

ADR Prof Blog by Andrea Schneider, Michael Moffitt, Sarah Cole,Art Hinshaw, Jill Gross and Cynthia Alkon.With the death of Nelson...

In 1964, George Bizos, a young lawyer, probably saved his client and good friend Nelson Mandela’s life by persuading him...

JAMS ADR Blog by Chris PooleJAMS had the honor of supporting the 2013 ABA Mediation Week in October. The theme...

The Problem with the Transformative Model of Mediation When I first became aware of the Transformative Model of Mediation I...

As the largest Arab country in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region, Egypt will play a significant role in the...

JAMS ADR Blog by Chris PooleRecently the United States Supreme Court issued long anticipated rulings in the first marriage cases...

International Center for Cooperation and Conflict ResolutionDoes our admiration for powerful and dominant groups maintain the social hierarchy? This is...

Business Conflict Blog by Peter Phillips There seems to be a presumption that being a mediator implicates public policy, and...

ICT for PeacebuildingAngelo Fernando, in addition to being a long-standing columnist in the Lanka Monthly Digest (LMD) is also the...

Movements for social change are products, producers and resolvers of conflict.  By joining together to bring about change, their members...