Cross-cultural

Nadja Alexander (Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy)

The mediation export explosion and the ‘hidden’ drive towards harmonisation

January 10, 2012

As I write these lines, I am working on a commercial mediation project in the Pacific nation of Samoa – yes the one that has just jumped across the international dateline. My blog post today is a…

Nadja Alexander (Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy)

Try as you may, you can’t hide behind the label

November 10, 2011

Hong Kong is the global city of designer ‘labels’ as even the most reluctant of shoppers cannot fail to observe. It is also the city of fakes – fakes with labels and fakes without labels – and the…

Sabine Walsh (Sabine Walsh Mediation)

New Frontiers in Cross Border Family Mediation

November 5, 2011

As globalisation progresses and migration increases, the number of bi-national and bi-cultural relationships and marriages is increasing. This brings a new richness and diversity to our society, but…

Nadja Alexander (Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy)

It’s a Question of Design: BYO Mediation

October 10, 2011

They say that you can take the girl out of Australia but that you can’t take Australia out of the girl. So as an Australian living in Hong Kong, let me leave the east-meets-west stories for another…

Joel Lee (National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law)

Confessions (and ramblings) of a Recovering Universalist…

September 14, 2011

I just returned from (mostly) sunny Brisbane, Australia running a pilot program (5 to 6 September 2011) on intercultural mediation competencies for the International Mediation Institute before…