At present, the project called “Mediation-Effective Public Policy in the Civil Dialogue” aims to explore options for a public policy in Romania in the field of mediation. The project is funded by the…
Online negotiators are often faced with the challenge of how to overcome barriers on communication. When in real life (or better, when in non digital life) body language, voice tone and appearance…
Let me climb off my usual soap box this month and focus on more mundane matters primarily of interest to mediators (and lawyers) in my jurisdiction. A recent decision of the Ontario Superior…
Many of us are mourning the recent death of David Richbell, a UK-based mediator and mediation trainer widely known and loved around the world.
I was lucky enough to count David as a close…
Pollyanna/pɒlɪˈanə/
noun/an excessively cheerful or optimistic person.
"what I am saying makes me sound like some ageing Pollyanna who just wants to pretend that all is sweetness and light"
Every…
This is the third post about the recent exciting event held at the European University Viadrina on the 7th of October – International “Mediation Moves” Conference (see the posts by Greg Bond and John…
At a recent excellent conference hosted by Professor Ulla Glaesser at Viadrina University in Frankfurt (Oder), one of the workshop sessions focussed on the extent to which mediators can or should…
This blog entry has its origins in two threads of conversation. First, as I write, we are just three weeks out from the 2018 Forum on Online Dispute Resolution, to be hosted by the NZ Centre for ICT…
I would like to begin this blog with a big thank you to Prof. Dr. Ulla Glässer and the European Viadrina University of Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany (the “other” Frankfurt, the one on the German-…
Recent blogs by Haris Meidanis on compulsory mediation in Greece prompt me to consider how lucky we are in Australia. Compulsion into mediation is common here. Outcomes are similar to voluntary…
