Susan Carpenter talks first about how a structured approach to dispute is good for volunteer mediation programs and how this is different than mediation for public policy issues. Public policy including environmental disputes require the mediator to work with the parties in designing the process.
In an information-saturated global society, many people assume that communication is a common sense process. Any modern court room or mediation process reveals the absurdity of such a statement. With...
By Zachary A. SchaeferIn its Smarter Living section on April 29, 2018, the New York Times posted an interesting article about how our unconscious biases can play tricks on us when it comes...
By Phyllis PollackIntroduction Having changed its socio-political-economic system in favor of democracy fourteen years ago, Hungary joined the European Union in May 2004, enacted the first Act on Mediation in December 2002...
By Judit Revesz
