This Week in Mediation #1,144
June 24, 2026 | Our 31st Year
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In This Issue
Making Dispute Resolution Accessible – ODR Forum 2026 • ODR in the Courts • Can Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Change the World? • Guidance for AI Usage – from the ODR Forum 2026 • Anonymizing Case Data for Safe AI Use • Integrating AI into Family Mediation – New 2 Hour Video Now Available • Canada’s Proposed Privacy Bill C-36 • The Intersection of DEI and Mediation • The Hidden Power Dynamics Inside Everyday Conflict: Leaders, Educators and • A Primer on Remedies in Arbitration • Navigating the Fog of Indirect Conflict: Practical Tools for Clarity and Prevention • This Week’s Mediation News • Training Calendar
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Making Dispute Resolution Accessible – ODR Forum 2026
with Jennifer Shack and Nick White
“Making Dispute Resolution Accessible” from the 2026 ODR Forum at Harvard University, is presented by Jennifer Shack, Director of Research at Resolution Systems Institute, and Nick White, Research & Evaluations Director at the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office. The entire RSI Report on Making ODR More Accessible to Self-Represented Parties (PDF) is also posted here.
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ODR in the Courts – from ODR Forum 2026
Video recording of the session “ODR in the Courts” from the 2026 ODR Forum at Harvard University. Speakers include Nicolas Lozada and Juan Camilo Girón, Redek.co; Ayelet Sela, Professor, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law, and Fellow, Stanford Law School; and Judge Thian Yee Sze, Principal District Judge in the State Courts of Singapore.
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 Can Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Change the World?
Video by Mac-Arthur Pierre-Louis; Review by Dan Glover
Can Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) change the world? That’s the question Mac Pierre-Louis, J.D., M.Ed. asks us to consider in his new documentary of the same name. |
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Colin Rule Documentary Interview
with Mac-Arthur Pierre-Louis
This is the video recording of Colin Rule, CEO of Mediate.com and ODR.com, for the “Can ODR Change the World Documentary” developed by Mac Pierre-Louis. Learn more at LMIPodcast.com/film/odr.
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Guidance for AI Usage – from the ODR Forum 2026
with Daniel Rainey and Leah Wing
This session from the 2026 Global ODR Forum is entited “Applying ODR Standards: Guidance for AI Usage for Human Third Parties“ with speakers Leah Wing, Executive Director, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution; and Daniel Rainey, Principal, Holistic Solutions, and Emeritus Chair of ICODR.org.
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 Dive into AI
Dive into AI (2025) is a powerful seven-hour video training series at Mediate University focused on integrating AI into every stage of the mediation process — from intake and scheduling to invoicing, communication, and document management. The price is only $100, with a 20% discount for Mediate Members!
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Dive into AI 2026
Register for the Dive into AI 2026 Consultation Group: Here.
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What Are We Learning About the Effects of AI in Mediation – 3 Tips for Protecting Our Parties
with Dr. Clare Fowler
Dr. Clare Fowler, Exec VP at ODR.com and Mediate.com, here presents on: “What Are We Learning About the Effects of AI in Mediation: 3 Tips for Protecting Our Parties.” This session focuses on our mental health in mediation and how AI can harm and help.
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Anonymizing Case Data for Safe AI Use
By Colin Rule
During our June 3, 2026 “Dive Into AI” (see video) consultation group, ODR innovator Bob Bergman showed off his amazing new Personal Information Anomalyzer Platform (See: https://www.piianomalyzer.ai). You owe it to yourself to check out the PII Anomalyzer!
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 Integrating AI into Family Mediation – New 2 Hour Video Now Available!
with Jim Melamed
This video and slide presentation is from Jim’s May 2026 2-hour workshop “A Brave New World: Integrating AI into Family Mediation” presented to the Massachusetts Council for Family Mediation (MCFM). See the sample video and order here.Introductory price of only $49, plus Mediate Members save 20%. Also see Jim’s new Agreement to Mediate That Incorporates Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use.
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Canada’s Proposed Privacy Bill C-36
By Robert Bergman
Canada’s proposed Bill C-36 represents one of the most significant privacy law reforms the country has considered in over two decades. At its heart, the legislation aims to replace major portions of PIPEDA with a new framework called the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act (PPCDA). The government says the goal is simple, although maybe not simple in practice: giving individuals stronger control over their personal information while still allowing businesses to innovate and compete in a data-driven economy.
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AAA Magazine Featured Articles
The Intersection of DEI and Mediation
By Kenneth Sharperson
This article outlines why DEI matters to mediation, identifies ethical tensions, and provides practical strategies—intake design, mediator selection, process tools, and metrics—to make mediation more equitable and effective.
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 Mediate.com Membership
Would you like to get more mediation cases by being in the world’s most used mediator directory and also be able to access all Mediate.com resources? Mediate.com Membership Benefits now include access to MediatorDojo, the Dive into AI Consultation Group, the Great Reads Book Club, and 20% off at MediateUniversity.com! See: www.mediate.com/Membership!
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The Hidden Power Dynamics Inside Everyday Conflict: Leaders, Educators and
By Rahel Tesfaye
Power dynamics rarely announce themselves directly in conflict. Instead, they quietly shape who speaks, who withdraws, who apologizes first, and whose reality becomes accepted as truth.
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A Primer on Remedies in Arbitration
By Earlene Baggett-Hayes
Arbitrators may fashion creative and customized remedies based on the outcome of an arbitration. While arbitrators have broad authority, there may be provisions in a contract or legal tenets that narrow the scope of their authority in fashioning remedies. Ultimately, remedies imposed by arbitrators should be fashioned to ensure outcomes are fair, enforceable, and consistent with legal standards.
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Navigating the Fog of Indirect Conflict: Practical Tools for Clarity and Prevention
By Alessandra Sgubini
The earlier we recognize the hidden tension created by what I call the fog of indirect conflict, the easier it becomes to prevent escalation. When you are trained to see what others sense but cannot name — and when you use tools that anyone could use but often don’t — you become a source of clarity and when there is clarity there is a resolution.
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THIS WEEK’S MEDIATION NEWS
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TRAINING CALENDAR
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• July 10-18 – 40-hour Family and Divorce Mediation Training
• July 13-30 – NYSCDM 60-hour Divorce Mediation Training
• July 23 – IACP Webinar: Psychological Dimensions of Impasse Breaking in Collaborative Cases (2 sessions)
• August 4-14 – 16th International Summer Academy on Peacebuilding, Conflicts Solution, Mediation, Justice, Leadership & Intercultural Dialogue
• August 10 – 10-hr. Basic Arbitration Training
• August 24 – 10-hr. Advanced Arbitration Training
• August 31 – September 4 – Mediate to Settle – 40 Hour Training – Dr. Sukhsimranjit Singh
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Editors: Jim Melamed and Clare Fowler
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