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In the “spirit of full disclosure”, I have known Aaron Wolf, the author of The Spirit of Dialogue, since 2002....

Consensus Building Approach by Larry SusskindImagine you had all the data you could possibly want about a city. I’m talking...

"Where has the fun around water gone? What happened to the joy that brought us into the sector in the...

Joint fact-finding (JFF) rests on devising a deliberative process to investigate critical technical issues in a format that is jointly...

The entirety of this article was originally published in the Negotiation Journal.Marine Protected Areas are frequently developed in consultation with...

[Drawn in part from Conflict Revolution: Designing Preventative Systems for Chronic Social, Economic and Political Conflicts, 2nd Edition, goodmedia press,...

Consensus Building Approach by Larry SusskindI worry a lot about how to evaluate the success or failure of consensus building...

Disputing Blog by Karl Bayer, Victoria VanBuren, and Holly HayesS.I. Strong, Associate Professor at the University of Missouri School of...

For years, there have been many who settle their divorces quietly and easily, without the stresses and costs of the...

Just Court ADR by Susan M. Yates,Jennifer Shack, Heather Scheiwe Kulp, and Jessica Glowinski.Like a lot of ADR researchers, I’m...

Electronico Resolucion Blog by Alberto ElisavetskyEstamos inaugurando con este número una nueva propuesta: compartir experiencias provenientes del otro lado del...

This article is from Mr. Alm's keynote presentation at the first ever Joint Fact Finding Conference coordinated by Peter Adler...

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

ADR Prof Blog by Andrea Schneider, Michael Moffitt, Sarah Cole,Art Hinshaw, Jill Gross and Cynthia Alkon.For those law school ADR...

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

If you had a choice in how to set up your mediation or negotiation room, how would it look? I...

Consensus Building Approach by Larry SusskindOur team has spent the last two weeks in Malaysia, moving from city to city,...

BACKGROUND I am an experienced mediator (over 500 cases to date) with 15 years mediation experience and a general practice...

The Reasonable Person Model blog here.Many people have experienced how a walk in the woods on a beautiful Fall day...

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

JAMS ADR Blog by Chris PooleUtility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will pay out $565 million in legal settlements...

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

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

Consensus Building Approach by Larry SusskindChile is now relying on hydropower to support its amazing economic growth. It is a...

In December 2009, representatives from 193 nations gathered in Copenhagen at the Conference of the Parties (COP) 15 round of...

Mediation in its best form found its glory every day at 7pm in Occupy (Portland, Oregon) as the voiceless (99%)...

From Larry Susskind's blog on the Consensus Building Approach Thirty-one senior water professionals from 17 countries attended the recent Water...

From Larry Susskind's blog on the Consensus Building Approach The Public Policy Institute of California recently released a report on...

From Larry Susskind's blog on the Consensus Building Approach Managing the flow of water, as a river moves through several...

In the yin and yang universe of problem solving and decision-making, collaboration strategies have great appeal. They are friendlier, often...