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xxKeith Seat
Texas Legislation Proposes Pretrial Victim-Offender Mediation Programs (4/29/09)
Keith Seat

The Texas House of Representatives passed, without any opposition, legislation that would authorize cities and counties to establish pretrial victim-offender mediation programs for misdemeanors and certain felonies. Under H.B. 2139, mediation would only occur with the consent of both victim and defendant, and would result in charges being dismissed against the defendant if an agreement was reached which included an apology along with restitution or community service by the defendant. The mediators need not be trained and the programs may charge defendants up to $500 in fees. The legislation was amended before passage to also include a juvenile victim-offender pilot program.

Texas H.B. 2139; Amendment for Juvenile Pilot (April 24, 2009) 0

xxSteve Mehta
Barking Dogs Need Mediators – Mediation Helps In Neighbor Disputes (4/27/09)
Steve Mehta
A city in Arizona is reintroducing a mediation program to help people resolve neighbor to neighbor disputes. In particular, the city of Scottsdale, Arizona is primarily introducing this program to assist neighbors resolve their barking dog problems. 2009 4

xxKeith Seat
States Using Mediation to Provide Consumer Restitution (2/17/09)
Keith Seat

The Consumer Affairs Mediation Center of the Nebraska attorney general’s office handled over 4,100 complaints and recovered almost $1 million for consumers in 2008. With fifteen full-time staff members, the Nebraska Mediation Center also helps consumers avoid scams and sends consumers on to counsel in the attorney general’s office if the circumstances warrant litigation. Similarly, in Iowa, the Consumer Protection Division of the Iowa attorney general’s office obtained benefits of over $1.3 million for consumers in 2008.

Lincoln Journal Star(January 4, 2009) (Subscription Required); Omaha World-Herald (January 23, 2009) (Subscription Required) 0

xxKeith Seat
Peer Mediation Useful to Reduce School Bullying and Even Liability (2/17/09)
Keith Seat

Peer mediation of schoolyard disputes by trained student mediators is a helpful solution to reduce or prevent acts of bullying and other forms of conflict and lack of respect among students. Society increasingly is finding schoolyard bullying and violence unacceptable, and schools increasingly are being held legally liable. Peer mediation helps address minor disputes before they escalate and boasts success rates of 65 to 75 percent. Further, peer mediation programs help reduce potential liability by showing that school districts are doing what they can to prevent problems among students.

New Jersey Law Journal (January 5, 2008) (Subscription Only) 0

xxKeith Seat
'Street' Mediation Works to Curb Homicides (1/07/09)
Keith Seat

CeaseFire, an anti-violence program in Chicago, has been successfully using mediation to reduce homicides since 2000. When shootings occur, trained mediators reach out to try to break the cycle of violence and prevent retaliation. Many of the paid mediators were former gang members who have access to and credibility with current gang members. The CeaseFire program has expanded to 15 Chicago neighborhoods and five other Illinois cities, and has been replicated in Baltimore, Cincinnati and Newark, New Jersey. Kansas City, Missouri has been working to develop a similar anti-violence program with a mediation component to address increasing homicide rates, but daunting organizational and funding challenges have thus far hampered the pilot project.

Pitch Weekly (November 20, 2008); CeaseFire Website 0

xxVictoria Pynchon
Small Lessons for Lawyers and Business People in Building Community (12/01/08)
Victoria Pynchon
Restorative justice is the criminal version of civil mediation. It stresses accountability, admission of guilt, forgiveness and reconciliation. It is the basis for Truth & Reconciliation Commissions that address harm done by one group of people to another that is rarely redressable by a criminal justice remedy. 2008 12

xxBrendan Donaghy
Constructive Ambiguity In Neighbour – Neighbour Mediation (10/06/08)
Brendan Donaghy
The term ‘constructive ambiguity’ is often attributed to Henry Kissinger and is a negotiating tactic used to cover up areas of disagreement or to save face of those taking part in negotiations. It is a technique most often seen in the context of international affairs, but can the same tactic be used in the less exalted surrounds of a neighbour – neighbour dispute? And if it can, is its use an example of good practice or superficiality in mediation? 2008 10

xxAnne Parys
Mediators on a Mission (9/09/08)
Anne Parys
Two Pittsburgh attorneys use their skills as mediators to help Liberian refugees and former child soldiers. 2008 9


Rompiendo paradigmas del sistema juridico guatamalteco (9/07/08)
Waldemar Zetina Castellanos
La disyuntiva existente en el ámbito jurídico guatemalteco consiste en asumir, si todo conflicto donde exista litis deba con exclusividad ser tratado en un proceso judicial o si por el contrario se permita la posibilidad de utilizar el procedimiento de la mediación como alternativa para la resolución de conflictos, instancia que permite economía de tiempo, voluntad manifiesta de las partes, entendimiento y uso del diálogo para llegar a acuerdos... 2008 9

xxAlba Aiello de Almeida
La construcción de la paz com proyecto pedagógico (8/06/08)
Alba Aiello de Almeida
Un ejemplo vivo de la aplicación de esta propuesta es el trabajo pedagógico que se desarrolla en el Colegio San Luis Gonzaga de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, en el cual se trabaja con estas pautas, obteniéndose resultados muy positivos. 0

xxKeith Seat
Virginia County’s Mediation Swap Receives Achievement Award (7/30/08)
Keith Seat

In order to efficiently satisfy new requirements by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for a firewall between mediation and charge investigations, the Human Rights Commissions in a Virginia county and city began offering mediation services to the other Commission, avoiding overlap without the cost of establishing stand-alone mediation programs in each group. The achievement award for the innovative program was given by the National Association of Counties.

Inside NoVA (June 22, 2008) 0

xxFranco Conforti
Promoción de Derechos Sociales, Resolución Pacífica de Conflictos y el proceso de Resiliencia en Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes. Experiencias para compartir (7/02/08)
Franco Conforti
Es de relevancia dirigir, a la hora de poner en marcha un programa preventivo, todos los esfuerzos para que el mismo sea hecho con la comunidad y no para la comunidad; vale decir, es vital (al éxito que buscamos) que se comprendan los códigos y mecanismos que actúan a niveles individuales y comunitarios. 0

xxSandy Bacharach
Consideraciones para hacer mediación comunitaria con latinos en los EE.UU (6/25/08)
Sandy Bacharach
En este ensayo, escribo sobre mis experiencias trabajando con mi agencia en el desarrollo y aumento de un programa de mediación y resolución de conflictos exitoso para latinos en los EE.UU. 2008 6

xxGeoff Sharp
Winners of the Make Talk Work International Video Competition (6/17/08)
Geoff Sharp
View the winning videos (funded by JAMS) on the City University of New York Dispute Resolution Consortium website here (they seem slow to load) 0


Guanajuato a la vanguardia en medios alternativos de resolución de conflictos (6/08/08)
Juan Carlos González Garcia
San Miguel de Allende, uno de los destinos turísticos más visitado en México, cuenta ya con un centro de mediación, adscrito a Poder Judicial de Guanajuato 2008 6

xxVictoria Pynchon
Negotiating Justice in Community Mediation (5/19/08)
Victoria Pynchon
Nearly every condominium complex harbors an outlaw -- the man, woman, couple or family who refuse to follow the rules. Offended and outraged, other homeowners make demands on their volunteer board who contact the (often unresponsive) management company. Many of these disputes ultimately make their way to the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Center in West Hollywood. And some of them make their way to me. Welcome to community mediation -- the non-zero sum, value-based, rights-seeking, joint session transformative dispute resolution process. We're well-trained and we're free. But can we deliver justice? 2008 5


Mediación: un aporte a la transformación de las relaciones sociales (5/08/08)
Liliana María Carbajal, Alejandro M. Nató, María Gabriela Rodríguez Querejazu
Esta nota enuncia algunas de las ideas desarrolladas en el libro: Mediación Comunitaria. Conflictos en el escenario social urbano (México, Universidad de Sonora-Centro Internacional de Estudios Sobre Democracia y Paz Social, 2005); Alejandro Nató, María Gabriela Rodríguez Querejazu y Liliana Carbajal. 0

xxPeter Adler
Eye of the Storm Leadership - Chapter One (4/01/08)
Peter Adler
Peter Adler is pleased to here provide Chapter One of his new book "Eye of the Storm Leadership." This chapter is entitled: Guerilla Bridge Building and includes free access to the accompanying video. 2008 4

xxJuan Carlos Vezzulla
La mediación para una comunidad participativa (3/31/08)
Juan Carlos Vezzulla
Los años dedicados a la práctica de la mediación en diversos contextos y, fundamentalmente, las exigencias enfrentadas en la formación de mediadores en diferentes países (nada mejor que enseñar para aprender) me llevaron a reconocer la necesidad de construir un marco teórico referencial que sustentase la mediación, su filosofía y práctica, y que marcase principios básicos que permitiesen diferenciarla de la conciliación y de todo un abanico de prácticas extendidas por el mundo bajo el nombre de mediación sin respeto a su base científica, filosófica, ética y profesional.  2008 3   1 Comment

xxJosefina Rendon
Mediación entre víctima y ofensor (2/11/08)
Josefina Rendon
La mediación entre víctima y ofensor es el proceso por el cual la víctima de un crimen enfrenta al causante de éste en la presencia de un tercero quien ayuda a las partes a dialogar sobre los hechos y sus consecuencias. En dicho enfrentamiento, la víctima tiene la oportunidad de expresarle al ofensor su coraje o su temor, de echarle en cara el impacto de su conducta criminal, de preguntarle las razones de esta conducta, o simplemente, de satisfacer su propia curiosidad sobre que tipo de persona es el acusado. Por su lado, el ofensor tiene la oportunidad de explicar los hechos, explicar la razón de su conducta, comprender el punto de vista de la víctima, y hasta pedirle perdón. 0

xxKeith Seat
Jamaican Foundation Seeks Funding to Establish Dispute Resolution Centers (12/20/07)
Keith Seat

The Dispute Resolution Foundation in Jamaica is seeking to raise funds for at least 30 peace and justice centers, which will be the focal point for dispute resolution efforts across the island. In addition to Jamaican government agencies, the Foundation is looking to the United Nations and other partners for sustained funding for the centers, which will train and rely on volunteers. Jamaica Gleaner (December 11, 2007) 0

xxKeith Seat
Japan Upgrading Consumer Mediation Services (9/19/07)
Keith Seat

Japan’s Cabinet Office plans to improve mediation services for consumers harmed by illegal business practices and defective products by creating a new Alternative Dispute Resolution system at the National Consumer Affairs Center. After submission of a final report in September, legislation will likely be introduced to give the Center greater authority to conduct mediations and resolve matters, including authority to request companies to participate, present materials and execute agreements with consumers. Sufficient resources are also needed to ensure success, as the Center’s workload is already heavy. This proposal reflects the gradual change in Japan’s approach to consumer protection, which is moving from reliance on extensive regulation to greater enforcement by consumers through the legal system.

Daily Yomiuri (August 8, 2007) (Subscription Required) 0


A Stage Model of Social Movement Cooptation: Community Mediation in the United States (1/15/07)
Patrick G Coy, Tim Hedeen
The community mediation movement in the United States arose in the late 1970s as an alternative to a formalized justice system which was perceived to be costly, time consuming, and unresponsive to individual and community needs. Community mediation advocates also valued community training, social justice, volunteerism, empowerment and local control over conflict resolution mechanisms. But over the past quarter century, community mediation has become increasingly institutionalized and undergone various degrees of cooptation in its evolving relationship with the court system. Drawing on the literatures of dispute resolution, cooptation, and social movements, we analyze the evolution of community mediation and identify the degrees and dimensions of its cooptation. 2007 1   1 Comment

xxElizabeth Moreno
Lost In Translation: Legislature’s Revision Necessary To Restore Funds To Community Based Dispute Resolution Programs (12/04/06)
Elizabeth Moreno
In 1986, the California legislature enacted a statute to fund a Dispute Resolution Program. The legislature intended for the funds to be directed to the community to develop an informal resolution of disputes in a non-coercive dispute resolution forum, outside of the court system. However,the intent of the legislature has been lost and the funds are being directed toward court programs that favor the economically well off who have the financial resources to maintain costly and protracted litigation. 2006 12


A Perspective on the Growth and Evolution of the Field of Mediation (7/10/06)
Mark Kleiman
As someone who was present at and an active participant in the beginning of the modern development of mediation in the early 80’s I would urge that we maintain a perspective on the growth and evolution of this field in the past 25 years. This does not in any way mean we should be any less committed and active in our promotion of this paradigm for conflict resolution. We should be careful to channel our passion into strategic action rather than anger. 2006 7   5 Comments

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