Category: Middle East

What is the balance in business vs. values in negotiation? Watching this years World Cup has been different but the...

JAMS ADR Blog by Chris PooleIn this podcast, The JAMS Foundation managing director David Brandon introduces the recipient of The JAMS Foundation’s 13th Annual Warren...

When you hear about the word landscape of dispute resolution, the first thing that comes to the mind of the...

You know me as a peace process guy, a conflict resolution trainer, an author of peace training materials. You don’t know...

Full article including footnotes attached below. CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Voices from the Seven Continents of the...

Whilst the construction industry worldwide is plagued by disputes, construction disputes in the Middle East have two distinct characteristics. The...

RiverHouse Press Blog by Ron KraybillOn September 11, 2019, President Trump warned about what America would do if attacked again....

Mediation is a non-judicial means of dispute resolution mechanism, and it has become very prevalent because of the disadvantages or...

Introduction Conflicts are a part of life, and can arise any time. There are many types of conflicts, but everyone...

RiverHouse Press Blog by Ron KraybillAn Important Choice: What to Do and Say After Violence? Whenever violence takes place as...

Many of us remember the dramatic 1993 handshake in the White House Rose Garden between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat...

In the past years, the share of countries participating in any type of conflict has risen to be the highest...

As I write this, I am looking across the Gulf of Aqaba at the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, near the...

Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started, is also the first country to emerge from its revolution with a genuine commitment...

My rabbi's Rosh Hashanah sermon this year concerned the important topic of healing the widening rifts in the Jewish community,...

Speaking of peace in the Middle East, I've been reading the new book about the Camp David negotiations by Lawrence...

Introduction The recent film “Exodus: Gods and Kings” has sparked some renewed interest in the actual written record of those...

On my last evening in Israel, I walked on the beach and gazed at the sunset over the beautiful Mediteranean...

International Center for Cooperation and Conflict ResolutionRecent events, such as the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, questionable accounting practices...

Kluwer Mediation BlogRecent development in the Near East reminds how long and disastrous the Arabic-Israeli conflict is. Unfortunately, it has...

For more than a decade, starting with a fellowship at the National Institute of Justice and subsequently conducting research in...

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

As someone with an interest in cultural studies (as some of you know, my PhD focused on this area), I...

The recently-elected President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, is starting to sound like a mediator. Recently Rouhani published an interesting op-ed...

Author information, originally the first 4 article footnotes, is provided below. Achieving the promise of mediation in conflicts that threaten...

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

“How do you deal with someone who is passive-aggressive?” A question sure to arise when we talk about difficult people....

Arbitration News Blog by Herbert SmithThere have been three recent developments in the sphere of arbitration in the GCC. The...

"Mediation is respectful cooperation in conflict and an intelligent and human way of thinking>" In this video, Princess Inaara of...

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