"Recall that 'ethics' and 'morals' have different meanings. Morality is part of ethics, but ethics is a larger and more inclusive notion. Ethics is a response to the question, 'What sort of a person…
Within this blog, we would like to familiarise you with the procedure of drafting and creating a complex mediation curriculum both from the inside and outside. Martin Svatos is one of the founders of…
In April 1976, an event now known as the Pound Conference ignited modern ADR in the USA, launching discussion of what may have become the “greatest reform in the history of the country’s judicial…
I’d like to take this month’s entry to briefly review a book that was launched in Singapore in March 2015.
The book is Mediation in Singapore: A Practical Guide published by Sweet & Maxwell. The…
'Justice', an "all-party law reform and human rights organisation working to strengthen the justice system" launched a new report on April 23rd entitled 'DELIVERING JUSTICE IN AN AGE OF…
Is it true that as we get older, we tend to forget things more easily? Or is it that some things are just less important?
As negotiators and mediators, we often deal with complex layers of…
I was twenty-five years old when I joined Young Mediators' Initiative (YMI) and first participated at the Andalusian System for Labour Conflict Resolution (S.E.R.C.L.A) as an official mediator. At…
In the late 90’s in Brazil, a sudden interest in Mediation started to develop under the influence of the newly enacted Argentinean legislation (1995). Unfortunately, just until a few years ago,…
It’s funny how one thing leads to another. Regular Kluwer blogger Ian Macduff posted a great blog earlier this week on the importance of asking questions. That reminded me that I had intended to get…
This blog entry arises not so much from any mediation, but from one aspect of regular social encounters that is all too normal a part of negotiation and mediation. As the title suggests, it’s about…
