Category: Public Policy

From Larry Susskind's blog on the Consensus Building Approach There are a great many companies, public agencies and not-for-profit organizations...

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

Michelle LeBaron discusses one of the challenges she sees in the field as not having the willingness to implement values...

From Larry Susskind's blog on the Consensus Building Approach We care about environmental justice because it doesn't seem fair that...

From John DeGroote's Larry Susskind's blog: The Consensus Building ApproachIt doesn't seem to matter whether we are talking about energy...

What are the odds of Barack Obama becoming our President? His story is now our story. Obama’s election represents what...

A lo largo del desarrollo del campo de la resolución alternativa de disputas, tanto los mismos profesionales, el público, como...

From Arnold W. Zeman's blogEarlier this week there was news of the controversy at Carleton University here in Ottawa about...

I.          Antecedentes.             La Comisión Norteamericana para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo (CNIOE)[1] hace cumplir varias leyes federales...

Christopher Honeyman, Managing Partner, CONVENOR Conflict Management, based in Madison, WI and Washington, DC. He has led a fifteen-year series...

First published online by UCLA Today Online, on July 15, 2008.Despite all the media coverage of the national election campaign,...

Abstract: Collaborative processes have been called the new "dominant paradigm" (Gillingham, 2001; Lubell, 2004) in watershed management, and government agencies...

Fighting has the edge over negotiation as the first inclination of most people when faced with conflict. Our human brain...

Este articulo fue previamente publicado por EL ACUERDO, la revista del Equipo IMCA?. Gracias a los editores del Equipo IMCA...

The Tempest “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.” - Harlan Ellison On May 16,...

Full Abstract: Through the 1990s, with the ending of the Cold War, there has been increasing research into methods of...

Originally published in the LEADR Update April 2008If you want a thought-provoking, engaging and at times inspirational read then this...

Chapter One of Eye of the Storm Leadership: Guerilla Bridge Building.

Gracias a los editores de eMediacion por compartir este artículoIntroducción Los años dedicados a la práctica de la mediación en...

The U.S. presidential run-up is a time to think about politics, conflict and leadership. The collective challenges we face --...

The following is the text as prepared for delivery of Senator Barack Obama’s speech on race in Philadelphia, as provided...

Introduction If you are a “leader” in any sense of the word, the ideas, stories, quotes, and exercises that follow...

The current U.S. presidential election is a great time to think about the relationship of politics, conflict and leadership. The...

A recent article, “Attack Iran,With Words,” by Reuel Marc Gerecht, appeared in the New York Times (OP-ED page, Feb. 20,...

Presidential candidate Barack Obama's main political message represents the absorption of the mediation movement's essential themes at the highest level...

History may record the current presidential campaign as a turning point in how we think about leadership, choose a leader,...

Unresolved public discontent has the potentials to graduate into a major dispute. And no democratic government will like to have...

I. Introduction Mediation has been shown to be effective in thousands of domestic environmental dispute cases in the US, Israel...

No han sido pocos los e-mail recibidos de colegas interesándose por la situación de La Mediación y la salida laboral...

“When big things are at stake, the danger of error is great. Therefore, many should discuss and clarify the matter...