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…
Over recent years I have been fortunate to be able to travel widely for work, and everywhere I go I find time to visit places of worship and sit quietly or attend services – in mosques, churches,…
Picture: Derek Gavey / Creative Commons
A man walks into a bar ……
I have to work quickly now because I can visualise readers reaching for the delete button. That’s because my six words have…
In the house of a poor man, a lizard was accustomed to come to the table and thereby kept himself alive on crumbs. During this time, everything went well with both the animal and the host whose…
There are many well-known arguments for and against mandatory mediation. Neither of the two camps of its proponents and opponents appear willing to surrender. However, some recent developments signal…
In October, we reported on a recent case from the Singapore High Court: Chan Gek Yong v Violet Netto. In that post, we examined the High Court’s attitude towards parties who have had a change of…
