Chris Moore talks about the increase of specializations in the mediation field and how there are positives and negatives that go along with it. Also shares how it is important to start out doing interpersonal mediation to gain understanding of the psychology of parties, then one is able to bring some of those skills into larger-scale mediations.
Howard Gadlin talks about how United States culture and society often represses ideological change and how the ombudsmen field has not changed in the last 20 years.
By Howard GadlinRecently I mediated a conflict involving an organization and two of its members. At stake was the continuation or severance of their long-standing relationship. After full and frank negotiation around...
By Nancy ShugerBernard Mayer, Staying with Conflict: A Strategic Approach to Ongoing Disputes (Jossey-Bass 2009)In his newest book, Staying with Conflict, Bernie Mayer urges “conflict professionals” to think of ourselves as specialists...
By Jan Frankel Schau