“As they sometimes say around Kyoto, 'Don’t just do something. Sit there.'" The Art of Stillness, Pico Iyer
Recently I had the good fortune of watching fellow blogger, John Sturrock QC, mediate. In…
This article has been inspired by Greg Bond’s recent article “Mediation Moves – A Conference, a Workshop, a Movement” and by the thought it has triggered: where have we moved in terms of mediation in…
In this blog I discuss the rise of ODR (online dispute resolution). I review recent developments including a live, online Brexit negotiation, which point to a mainstream future. I conclude that ODR…
In 1999, I had just returned to Brazil from the United States with a Ph.D. thesis on ADR when a mediator colleague invited me to attend and appraise a mediation session. I was eager to do that and…
This entry is an ongoing series focused on using Neuro-Linguistic Programming in our practice of amicable dispute resolution. For ease of reference and the convenience of readers, I will list in this…
Julian Baggini's recently published book "How the world thinks" is a history of global philosophy, looking at how thinking has developed in different places and times. In the introduction he…
While The Kluwer Mediation Blog is aimed at an international audience and often deals with issues of transcendent import to those interested in the mediation process (like Bill Marsh’s recent…
One of the privileges of mediating is to watch leaders at work.
Every party, every team, has its leader(s). And as any mediator will tell you, the way in which they choose to lead during a…
(This post is being republished due to technical issues when it was first published.)
“I see contemporary patterns of disputing as an adaptive (but not necessarily optimal) response to a set of…
My last blog reflected on an excellent mediation conference in Frankfurt on the Oder where the strength which comes from working together was clear. I started this present blog on the day that the EU…
