Roger Fisher recounts how a former student who became the president of Ecuador asked Fisher for advice on how to relate with the Peruvian president, as the two countries have a history of warfare. Fisher said to his former student to ask the Peruvian president for advice on how he thinks they could solve their problems together.
Only a few years ago, mediation was regularly confused with meditation, medication, or arbitration, another mode of conflict management, but a distant cousin. The confusion was not limited to the...
By Robert BenjaminMany feel unprepared for financial decision making and are unhappy with settlements. Divorce is as popular as ever in America, with over 50% of first marriages and 70% of second...
By J Anthony LicciardelloAbstract The landscape of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is currently traversing a foundational paradigm shift. Moving away from a reliance on the subjective intuition of the practitioner, the field is...
By Ed Timken