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Evaluating Consensus Building Efforts: According To Whom? And Based On What? author.
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Evaluating Consensus Building Efforts: According To Whom? And Based On What?

This article originally appeared in the January 1999 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...

By David Fairman
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On The Importance Of Criteria For Mediator Performance

This article originally appeared in the January 1999 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...

By Christopher Honeyman
Best Practices: A Participant Accuses You Of Taking Sides… author.
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Best Practices: A Participant Accuses You Of Taking Sides…

This article originally appeared in the January 1999 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...

By Jennifer Thomas-Larmer
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Y2K and Liability to Third Parties

Plan for the Worst. In some ways, Y2K is like a hurricane. The weather service can forecast reasonably well where...

By Gil Medeiros
Gender, Conflict and Conflict Resolution author.
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Gender, Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Gender affects and indeed permeates, conflict dynamics at the societal and individual level. Understanding the role of gender in conflict...

By Juliana E. Birkhoff Ph.D.
Medical Malpractice Disputes in the Age of Managed Care author.
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Medical Malpractice Disputes in the Age of Managed Care

I. Introduction It cannot be disputed that as the millennium approaches healthcare costs are skyrocketing. In 1965 the nation spent...

By David T. Caldon
The Space Between the Parties: A model for understanding the magic of mediation author.
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The Space Between the Parties: A model for understanding the magic of mediation

Just for a moment, let's put aside all of the talk of anger management, neutrality, opening statements, ground rules, communication...

By S. Elise Peeples
Learning To Use The Mediation Process – A Guide For Lawyers author.
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Learning To Use The Mediation Process – A Guide For Lawyers

Mediation is changing law practice. It is the cheapest, lowest risk, and most under-utilized form of alternative dispute resolution. And...

By Norm Brand
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ADR Personalities and Practice Tips

Review by: The Alternative Newsletter Editor, James Boskey Published by: American Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Section, 740 15th St. NW,...

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Conflict and Culture: A Literature Review and Bibliography (1992-1998 update) author.
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Conflict and Culture: A Literature Review and Bibliography (1992-1998 update)

Review by: The Alternative Newsletter Editor, James Boskey Published by: The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University,...

By Michelle LeBaron, Stephen Garon
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Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival

(Albany: SUNY Press, 1998) with a Foreward by the Dalai Lama Order at Amazon.comThis book builds from the proposition that...

By Gordon Fellman
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Pennsylvania Council of Mediators Ethics

1. A mediator shall recognize that mediation is based on the principle of self-determination by the parties. 2. A mediator...

By Pennsylvania Council of Mediators
Creating An Environment for Mediating Disputes On the Internet author.
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Creating An Environment for Mediating Disputes On the Internet

A Working Paper for the NCAIR Conference on On-Line Dispute Resolution Washington, DC, May 22, 1996 Table of Contents Introduction...

By Richard Granat
The Online Ombuds Office: Adapting Dispute Resolution to Cyberspace author.
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The Online Ombuds Office: Adapting Dispute Resolution to Cyberspace

The technology is there for widely separated parties to meet in cyberspace, exchange and analyze complex information on preferences and...

By Ethan Katsh
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Organizational Change and Leadership: Lessons from The Battle of Trafalgar

The process of changing organizations is as old as humanity. The study of the Battle of Trafalgar offers insight into...

By John Conbere
Turn Down the Volume When it Comes to Divorce author.
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Turn Down the Volume When it Comes to Divorce

In her most recent book, The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue, Deborah Tannen asserts that our entire society...

By Barbara Stark
Mediation as a Subversive Activity author.
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Mediation as a Subversive Activity

Republished with permission from "THE BRIEF", DuPage Co. (Illinois) Bar Journal.Remembrances of Times Past--A Brief History and The Origins of...

By Robert Benjamin
Online Dispute Resolution in the U.S. author.
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Online Dispute Resolution in the U.S.

Introduction to:  Mediate.com; Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc. (RIS); Online Resolution, Inc. and Online Mediators John Helie and Jim Melamed founded...

By James Melamed, J.D., John Helie
Building Bridges Through Negotiation author.
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Building Bridges Through Negotiation

Re-published with permission from Program for Community Problem Solving (PCPS) a division of the National Civic League.In September of this...

By William R. Potapchuk
Keep Your Workplace Team Tuned Up author.
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Keep Your Workplace Team Tuned Up

Mostly, working groups are not like cars! But there are some analogies: Both are made up of interdependent parts. The...

By Tim Hicks
Mediación Computarizada Sustituye Tribunales Civiles! author.
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Mediación Computarizada Sustituye Tribunales Civiles!

Aún cuando hasta hace pocos años parecía algo inconcebible, mañana 20 de enero de 2020 se espera la presentación de...

By Luis Miguel Diaz
Mediate Away The Millennium Bug author.
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Mediate Away The Millennium Bug

Republished with permission of Legal Times, 1730 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036.As the millennium approaches, dissatisfied-customer suits against high-tech...

By Sandra Sellers
Workplace Editorial Sept 2000 author.
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Workplace Editorial Sept 2000

The workplace continues to grow as a consumer of conflict management and dispute resolution services. A number of intiatives confirm...

By John Ford
OLD: AFM – AFCC Standards of Practice for Divorce and Family Mediation (1984) author.
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OLD: AFM – AFCC Standards of Practice for Divorce and Family Mediation (1984)

These are the standards of practice that were promulgated by two national/international associations of family and divorce mediators, the Academy...

By AFCC Salem
Building a Successful Mediation Practice author.
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Building a Successful Mediation Practice

The purpose of this article is to provide some suggestions with regard to building a successful mediation practice from a...

By James Melamed, J.D.
Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Open Door in  Large Canadian Companies author.
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Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Open Door in Large Canadian Companies

While dispute resolution skills and systems have been a hot topic of discussion in the Canadian legal community for the...

By Gary T. Furlong
Model Standards of Practice for Mediators author.
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Model Standards of Practice for Mediators

These standards of mediation practice were jointly defined by the American Bar Association (ABA), Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and...

By Managing Editor
Reasons To Consider Mediation author.
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Reasons To Consider Mediation

1. The court that is to hear the case is likely to order mediation and you would rather pick your...

By Jeffrey Krivis
Eleven Questions Most Commonly Asked About Mediation author.
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Eleven Questions Most Commonly Asked About Mediation

Most lists contain numbers of items that have a traditional context -- 7, 10, or 20. A list of twelve...

By Forrest (Woody) Mosten
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Quick Reference for Selecting a Mediator

Five Steps to Choosing a Qualified Mediator Checklist 1: What Do You Want? 1. What are your goals? 2. What...

By Alaska Judicial Council

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