I recently watched a Sainsbury advertisement on YouTube that made me reflect on peace. Readers can view this video at Christmas Truce video. It's under 4mins. You might wish to do that before reading…
(This is the first of three parts of a keynote address to the YMCA Conference “From Reactions to Relations” in Burton on Trent on 20 November 2014)
Here's an interesting phenomenon. When asked to…
This post is unlikely to win me friends on America's West Coast and it may even see my US mediation teaching visa withdrawn, however when the issue even has its own Facebook group called Save …
Global Legal Post recently carried an article intriguingly entitled “Lawyers find Eureka moments in the shower". Sadly the article itself lacked the slightly salacious promise of its title.…
I have never been a great fan of mediator's proposals. I took the view that the mediator's job, done well, was to help the parties to come to a solution themselves. Party autonomy and all that.…
In a previous post, I shared Professor Stacie Strong's call for blog readers to respond to her survey on international commercial mediation practice. Thank you to everyone you did.
While the final…
Some 20 years ago, as part of a nostalgia trip (for me) and introductory trip (for my wife) to my childhood haunts in Malaysia, we visited the coastal town of Lumut and the offshore island, Pangkor.…
On 24th September Kluwer and the International Academy of Mediators (IAM) hosted their inaugural mediation webinar – ‘7 Ways to Make Your Next Mediation Successful’. Attendees joined from all over…
Author's Note: I would like to thank Ms. Eunice Chua, Deputy Chief Executive Officer for her contribution to this entry.
5 November 2014 was a momentous day for mediation in Singapore. It saw the…
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
(Nelson Mandela)
The inspiration for this piece has come from a two very different sources. First…
