Cognitive Bias

The Olympics have come and gone with all of the emotion and inspiration they bring. In our recent, fully-subscribed, residential Summer School on mediation skills for leaders, we reflected on the…

"Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar" "Traveller, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk." Antonio Machado, as quoted and translated in Daring Greatly, Brene Brown Those…

There is an Internet meme that goes "Somewhere, there is a 21 year old in a 50 year old's body going 'What the hell happened?'". I try not to think about age generally; and more specifically, my age…

This post was prepared in cooperation with Bogdan Matei. Neutrality is one of the keystone concepts in the mediation process. When the mediator or the parties consider that the mediator’s neutrality…

Negotiating in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar is an experience to relish. I've recently returned from three days in that wonderful city, helping lawyers, judges and mediators to expand the use of mediation…

One week after the terrorists’ assaults in Paris, one may have witnessed a whole scale of different responds to this terrible tragedy: From the manifestation of solidarity and fraternity to the…

In 2006 Frank Sander produced his 'Mediation Receptivity Index'(22 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 599-618). The MRI would be a way of discerning the extent of 'mainstreaming' or …

It is the beginning of the school term at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, where in this semester, I teach a Negotiation Workshop. In our first class yesterday, we played a…

We have just reached the end of the annual marking season (grading for North Americans). The verbal joust of examinations is almost over. Students get their blows in first; teachers’ strike back…