War Stories

This blog entry will take a more personal tone than have earlier ones - though it’s in the nature of blogs and the more informal style that they have all said something of the experience of the…

Hockey is a deeply ingrained part of the Canadian identity so it's not surprising that the Country has been abuzz this week around the question: "Has a high profile 10-year old case been settled…

    Many years ago I was an avid downhill skier. Nothing took my mind off the pressures of practice like a sun-filled cobalt blue morning sky and a virgin white blanket of new fallen snow to carve my…

Recently my good friend Canon Andrew White (aka “the Vicar of Baghdad”, as he is the Anglican priest at St George’s Church, Baghdad) convened a meeting of religious certain leaders from Iraq and…

  Having last week returned to New Zealand from Singapore where I was honoured take part in the launch of the ICC Mediation Rules, I saw first hand the support for mediation in Singapore from…

 This is where I did my best work in Christmas week – in the twilight zone between the joint session room to the right of the water cooler and the private caucus room off to the left by the green…

I am indebted to my friend and fellow mediator Mark Lomas QC for sending me the following email recently: ‘I have come across what I think may be one of the earliest recorded mediations in England,…

Its interesting to me that when you Google "lying" and "mediation" you are redirected to "lying" (as in lying down) and "meditation". Recently my attention was drawn back to the old issue of…

Sorry (as we Canadians tend to say a lot). I'm A few days late with this post as I've been vacationing in London U.K. with my wife and 14-year old daughter. (Wonderful time, thanks). Today is my…