Public Policy Section
According to brand new 5/22/19 data from Alexa.com, Mediate.com is most visited and most linked mediation website, by far! The APFM, NAFCM, MBB & ACR have joined Mediate.com's groundbreaking efforts to set America on a better path by sponsoring the "National Mediation Policy Act" (NMPA). The Act declares a national policy favoring voluntary mediation over disputes being litigated, remaining unresolved or resulting in violence. A change manager candidly discusses her experience in a company. This is a new interview with Doug Yarn, a leading academic in the fields of racial injustice and dispute resolution, by Robert Benjamin as part of Mediate's "The Future of Mediation and Negotiation in Our Culture, Politics and Society" video series. Mediation should become more prominent than arbitration in the approach to investor-State disputes. Christopher Reeves explains the process, the potential benefits – and how construction companies should prepare for a mediation. Working with the FBI, I had access to the Hostage Barricade Database System (HOBAS) and put out what I believe to be is the most current up-to-date information on law enforcement negotiation statistics. This article by Ken Rasmussen and Milan Slama is the second part to discuss the current political divide. This is a new interview of mediation leader and author Ken Cloke by Robert Benjamin as part of Mediate's new "The Future of Mediation and Negotiation in Our Culture, Politics and Society" video series. This is a new interview with public policy mediation leader Peter Adler by Robert Benjamin as part of Mediate's new "The Future of Mediation and Negotiation in Our Culture, Politics and Society" video series. This article discusses a family law approach called “systemic human-centered design”. This is a new interview of Howard Gadlin, long-time leading Ombudsman at UCLA and the National Institute of Health (NIH), by Robert Benjamin as part of Mediate's video series "The Future of Mediation and Negotiation in Our Culture, Politics and Society." In this article, Arjun Pal discusses the impact of mediation in India. This chapter focuses on areas of ODR that are likely to involve attorneys, Attorney involvement in ODR tends to be for more complex and substantial disputes, such as resolving all divorce issues or settling an estate or resolving ongoing business issues. These are areas of “integrative” ODR practice, where there are multiple issues and, commonly, a continuing relationship. Mediation, like other forums where leadership is called for, can be a hard business, not for the faint of heart. On the other hand, every once in a great while, something magical, unplanned, and unexpected happens and the room is suddenly filled with hope and light. One great benefit of evaluating eight programs with different approaches to resolving the same cases is that it allowed me to uncover program design factors and other variables that promote program success. I finally found the right phrase to describe what city planning is, and what city planners do. Planners provide ideas, analyses and organized settings in which governance (i.e. collaborative problem-solving) can take place. I thought that teaching the Kavanaugh hearings in a careful and respectful manner a few weeks ago would be the biggest teaching challenge of the semester. I was wrong. Each of the described four impulses gives rise to tensions in negotiation: the need to compete and claim, the impulse to cooperate and find common ground, the drive for pragmatic and technically competent solutions, and the push for a moral basis in solution-making. Thanks to the 2017 federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, (“TCAJA”), divorce lawyers and mediators know that December will be a busy time and some of us may be working right up to the close of the courthouse on Monday, December 31st. It does seem, as we move comfortably into the 21st century, that the earth and the inhabitants within are in constant process of adaption. As a non-lawyer who teaches in law schools, I have been brought into the “justice” conversation many times. I am asked: How can you be sure your online systems will deliver justice? This article discusses how cooperation can be enhanced through a transdisciplinary approach to water negotiations, refusing to accept tired cliches and really talking. There are many keys to reaching possible agreement. The list includes, among others, discovering not incompatible interests, soothing a hurt relationship, or finding a common enemy. Uncovering a transcending vision can accelerate and amplify the coming together of contending parties. Vision helps achieve agreement. I was a fan of Facebook from my first login. I registered right after it opened to the public in 2006, and I led most of my friends onto the platform. I am now choosing to leave Facebook.
Public Policy & Environmental Articles
Comparing Mediation Websites
APFM, NAFCM, MBB & ACR Sponsor National Mediation Policy Act!
Cognitive Bias' in the Workplace
New Interview with Douglas Yarn: The Future of Mediation and Negotiation in Our Culture, Politics and Society
The Role of Mediation in Investor-State Disputes
Preparing for Mediation: Six Need-to-Knows for UK clients
HOBAS: Understanding the Data Behind U.S. Crisis Hostage Negotiation
The Fault Lines of the Contemporary Political Divide - Part 2
New Interview with Ken Cloke - The Future of Mediation and Negotiation in Our Culture, Politics and Society
New Interview with Peter Adler - The Future of Mediation and Negotiation in Our Culture, Politics and Society
BC Justice: Through the Eye of a Fish
New Interview with Howard Gadlin - The Future of Mediation and Negotiation in Our Culture, Politics and Society
The Impact of Mediation in India
Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) for Lawyers
Beyond Solutions
Findings from an Evaluation of Eight Foreclosure Mediation Programs
Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What It Is?
Heartbroken in Pittsburgh
Bringing Down a Giraffe
Don’t Dread Divorces this December
Conflict in the 21st century- a revised look at our biology
Justice
Conflicts over groundwater and aquifers profiled in recently-published book: Advances in Groundwater Governance
The Exceptional Power of Vision
Leaving Facebook