Public Policy Section
In our mediation efforts, once we are in the realm of “public policy,” we are inevitably poking our noses into questions of intergenerational equity and “governance” and how authentic collaboration can be achieved or improved. This article is to give an over view of the use of disability mediation and a case study. The article will highlight some of the benefits of utilizing specialist mediators, confidentiality and why disability mediation works. There’s recent discussion in urban planning journals about the way professional city planners should be educated today. Having a conversation about planning in advance prevents many community-conflicts down the road. These are dark times, especially if you are part of the loose community of people who by virtue of nature and/or nurture, are of a mediative persuasion. Although our digital devices have certainly made life more convenient, they’ve also made it more fast-paced. I follow the choroeographies and patterns of the craft we call conflict management, but every once in a while I help people really step out of the proverbial box they are in and discover (or stumble on) a peculiar new solution that seems to fit perfectly. Those are the golden moments I live for. Intermediaries, honest brokers, and would-be peacemakers have much to learn from warfare. In fact if you want to understand mediation, learn about war. This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Howard Bellman, a long-time leader in the field of labor-management mediation and mediation in the public sector generally, filmed as part of Mediate.com's 'Views from the Eye of the Storm' Video Series. This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Doug Yarn, a leading conflict resolution academic, filmed as part of Mediate.com's 'Views from the Eye of the Storm' Video Series. After 911, our lives changed seemingly forever. No longer a safe, secure, innocent society, Americans have come to a tipping point. Frank E.A. Sander ’52, a longtime Harvard Law School professor and a pioneer in the field of alternative dispute resolution, has died. He was 90. This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Larry Susskind, a leading public policy mediator, filmed as part of Mediate.com's 'Views from the Eye of the Storm' Video Series. Guerilla warfare is unconventional. Instead of relying on large, slow moving armies and doctrines of overwhelming force, guerillas depend on invisibility, highly portable weapons, quick ambushes, booby traps, and hundreds of pressuring tactics that achieve practical offensive or defensive results. This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Peter Adler of Accord 3.0 and Past-President of The Keystone Center, filmed as part of Mediate.com's 'Views from the Eye of the Storm' Video Series. Given that universities have only two primary tasks -- teaching and research – they ought to be willing to invest as much in improving the quality of their teaching as they do in providing an elaborate infrastructure to support basic and applied research. When we’ve put in effort to solve a problem, we want our solution, decision, or agreement to have every chance at long-run success. Ten big ideas on peace and justice from the career of Morton Deutsch. This is article six, focusing on social innovation. Most of us don’t go to the symphony to watch the conductor or to a sporting event to see the referees in action, but imagine the chaos without their participation. This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with mediation pioneer Chris Moore, Founder of CDR Associates in Boulder, CO, and a long time leader in the area of public policy mediation, filmed as part of Mediate.com's 'Views from the Eye of the Storm' Series. The evidence is in. After 43 years of federal practice under Rule 408 of the Federal Rules of Evidence (1975); 19 years of New York practice under CPLR 4547 (1998); and 16 years of practice in various states under the Uniform Mediation Act (2001), we can conclude: Statutory confidentiality is not necessary for effective mediation. The use of the joint session in mediation has been a hot topic of study and debate in recent years. Joint Fact Finding (JFF) is a public engagement strategy that creates a needed safe harbor for technical and scientific discussions between all sides. Is your workplace a toxic environment? If there is more than one person per week out sick in your department, chances are it is. Social media is changing how society behaves at a pace that we just cannot fathom. We have embraced it with open arms, but have we taken three steps back to digest it and understand how societal social skills have been affected?
Public Policy & Environmental Articles
Lessons from the Iroquois
Disability Mediation : An Overview
Planners are No Long Generalists with a Specialty
The Gang of Fourteen
How to Take a Scientific Approach to Improving Employee Productivity
The Mann Gulch Fire
The Ghosts of Melos
Interview with Howard Bellman - Views from the Eye of the Storm
Interview with Doug Yarn - Views from the Eye of the Storm
Splitting America Redux: Implications for Keeping our Kids Safe
In Memoriam: Frank E.A. Sander, pioneer in ADR (1927-2018)
Interview with Larry Susskind - Views from the Eye of the Storm
Eye of the Storm Leadership: Guerilla Bridge Building
Interview with Peter Adler - Views from the Eye of the Storm
Universities are Underinvesting in Efforts to Improve the Quality of Teaching
Go Back to the Future to Discover How Your Agreement Could Fail
A Grand Theory of Personality and Environment
How Does Your Mediator Add Value?
Interview with Chris Moore - Views from the Eye of the Storm
A California Correction? Legislature Will Consider Allowing Attorney Malpractice Proof from Mediation
Study: Results Point to the Value of a Joint Session
A User's Guide to Joint Fact Finding — "JFF"
Toxic School Environments Make Teachers Sick
Conflict and the Advent of Social media in the Evolution of Society
