A good friend of mine was recently surprised to see a robot cutting the grass around a well-known landmark in Edinburgh. Coincidentally this was around the same time as I came across a speech given…
Bloomberg (not my usual reading fodder, I confess) carried an interesting piece a couple of months ago, entitled “Meet the Real Force Behind the Brexit Talks”. Yes, it was about Brexit (yawn) but it…
It’s August and I’m cooking up some Stone Soup.
What I'm actually doing is finalizing the syllabus, lesson plans, lecture notes, readings, guest speaker list and slide decks. The materials…
Mediators need to remember stuff – lots of stuff.
Sure, it helps to have a flush mentality - as my very first, and now long gone, boss used to tell me. Mr. Dalgety would come back to the office…
(This post is being republished because of technical problems when it was first published).
Studying and teaching with Professor Frank E.A. Sander at Harvard in the late 80’s was life changing…
The Kashmir valley in India is a stressed region and though older generations have ‘lived’ through some tense winters, this generation is not ready to ‘survive’ through the silence and indifference.…
“I’ve been trying to tell you, but you didn’t listen. You’ve got to go down more deeply and take more time, you’re rushing it and it’s too superficial. You’re hardly disturbing the surface. You’ll…
“Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.” (Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, (2011: 390)
This blog arises from my…
The forthcoming Singapore Convention on Mediation will be the first UN Treaty named after Singapore.
At the 51st Session of the United Nations (UN) Commission on International Trade Law (…
James Bond enters a casino where a beautiful girl is sitting at the bar. He approaches her, buys her a drink and makes his obligatory introduction: “Bond, James Bond…” After brief chatting, she asks…
