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Exploring Mediation in Netflix's Tiger King
Netflix's ubiquitous documentary, Tiger King, is a real-life lesson in the value of mediation over litigation. Whether you're Joe Exotic battling with Carole Baskin, an employee frustrated with a co-worker, or a spouse leaving a marriage, mediation can work efficiently while preserving your sanity, saving you time, and reducing your costs.
Tips for Divorcing Couples - Videos 2 through 5
We decided to bring experts together who can provide some tips on how to deal with the stress of not only COVID-19 but the stress of going through a divorce or separation during these unprecedented times.
In Zoom We Trust
My first real-life experience with pandemic-forced online dispute resolution was in early April — a baptism by fire.
The Kindness of Strangers During a Pandemic
Amidst all the pandemic grief and fear, people step up in big ways to help each other.
What Mediators Must Consider as They Work
This article highlights the impact of COVID-19 on face to face mediation as social distancing is encouraged. It also discusses other instances when mediators need to stay away from the mediation process such as when they are physically tired or when they face psychological or mental issues.
To Mediate (out of) Corona
What can be learnt from mediation practices, towards handling the Corona challenges?
ODR Tips and Tricks
With the COVID-19 pandemic and everybody home, Internet becomes the highway of contact with the world. And, in mediation, mass transmigration to ODR.
The Death of Traditional Mediation - An Obituary
Traditional mediation was not a "one size fits all."
4 Things You Definitely Need to Become an Accomplished Online Mediator
The success of online mediation depends 95% on your mediation experience and skills.
Divorce & Managing Anxiety during COVID-19 - Video
We decided to bring experts together who can provide some tips on how to deal with the stress of not only COVID-19 but the stress of going through a divorce or separation during these unprecedented times.
Lessons from Teaching Facilitation Online
What a dispute resolution teacher has learned about connecting online.
Violence Against Women and Girls Pandemic and Gendered Dimension of COVID-19
Imagine there was a pandemic that globally impacted close to 1.3 billion women and girls at some point in their lives.
Will Your Relationship Survive the Coronavirus Lockdown?
6 Tips to Strengthen your Relationship during Covid-19 Lockdowns
Post Coronavirus Dispute Resolution: To Sue or to Survive
The Coronavirus will be followed by a plague of lawsuits due to the inability of individuals and companies to honor contractual obligations.
The Coronavirus Crisis Provides an Opportunity to Adopt Better Systems for Licensing Lawyers than the Bar Exam
At one point, 34 states had diploma privilege rules but then the “ABA Code of Recommended Standards for Bar Examiners stated individuals should not be admitted to practice without passing a written bar exam.”
Impatience, Conflict, and Covid-19
Impatience can be a big contributor to conflict, and an obstacle to effective conflict resolution.
The Space Between Unpeace and Peace
Honor the space between no longer and not yet, Nancy Levin.
Research Shows We Can Work Toward Peace Through Understanding
This article addresses how our brain reacts when we feel understood versus when we don’t feel understood.
You Can Lead Trainings
Do you want to help a team or group improve patterns of dealing with conflict? This article includes resources to help you lead a rich learning experience on conflict styles.
Helping Not Hoarding
The uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has hit us all like a ton of bricks, particularly over the past week, as each day brings a new development.
Verbal Self-Defense Begins with a Mindset of Compassion and Empathy
What does it mean to learn the art of verbal self-defense? First, it means understanding the purpose and establishing a mindset behind this approach.
The Next New Normal in Law, Dispute Resolution, and Legal Education
A recent post anticipates that as we go through the current crisis, we will develop a “crisis new normal” and, after we recover from the crisis, a “normal new normal” (NNN).
Why?
I just finished reading a book entitled, Start With Why? By Simon Sinek (Penguin Group, New York, 2009) which posits a simple thesis on why some organizations are very successful and others are not.
It's Time to Talk....
Talking about end of life wishes is never fun, and seldom easy.
Be Kind
We need to keep in mind that everyone is having a tough time and treat them with kindness.
Expedited Arbitration and Party Autonomy Are Key Solutions to Resolving COVID-19-Related Supply Chain Disruptions
The equation is immutable: disruption of supply chains + intervention by governments to manage noncommercial priorities = dramatic increase in disputes among private business entities. COVID-19 has brought much production, transport and commercial activity to a near halt.
Pulling Together
The perfect time for there to be conflicting ideas within an organization or team is when information is being processed and decisions are being made about the direction of the company or project.
Research Concludes Regional International Organizations are Critical Mediators
The author discusses the critical need of regional international organizations (RIOs) to intervene in ethnic conflicts, but notes some of the surrounding limitations to creating sustainable peace, such as the level of violence or the restrictions an organization might face in their very design.
Divorce Mediation: The Healthy Way to Break Up
There are all sorts of reasons why relationships break up, and when a couple is in crisis it’s easy to turn on the other person and point the finger of blame.
Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Career Resources
In light of the current COVID-19 crisis and adjustments that educators, universities, colleges, and employees are making to work and learning, I’ve posted lists of resources that might useful to students, professionals, and educators.
Conflict in Confined Spaces
Stay at home orders have been issued, work and schools have closed down, everyone is home together. So now what?
The Psychological Complications of Resolving Disputes Online
Online dispute resolution (ODR) can take many different forms and should be designed to take into account human psychology.