‘Not long ago, I was visiting my alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, during the traditional Friday afternoon free-beer happy hour. I noticed a group of students unloading a mass quantity of Legos from boxes. The Legos were set around a clear area in the middle of the room. It was obvious that they were ready to engage in a communal and improvisational building project.
It stuck me how appropriate the Legos analogy is for not only for training mediators, but in the conduct of the mediation process itself…
A comment to one of my columns, “War and Negotiation: Lessons From the Europeans” drew the apparent anger and animus of at least one European, Christiana from the Netherlands (12/13/07)....
By Robert Benjamin"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them." —Adlai Stevenson In the course of a negotiation, when one side or the...
By Edward P. AhrensThis chapter is from "Online Dispute Resolution Theory and Practice," Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Ethan Katsh & Daniel Rainey ( Eds.), published, sold and distributed by Eleven International Publishing. The Hague,...
By Noam Ebner