Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age - #7KeysMediate
Mobilizing Mediatively
Recently, Mediate.com serialised a jigsaw of 23 pieces by 40 authors in 16 countries, in the form of both articles and author interviews, all part of the over-arching theme Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age. This articles summarizes those 23 pieces.
Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation's Golden Age - Table of Contents
Mediate.com is proud to publish "Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age" and to offer this convenient Table of Contents for accessing all 25 original "Keys" articles and accompanying videos. Special thanks to Michael Leathes, Manon Schonewille and Clare Fowler for leading this important project!
Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age - The Introduction
Mediate.com has published a series of peer reviewed articles and videos under the collective title Seven Keys to Unlock Mediation’s Golden Age. The objective of the Seven Keys is to encourage discussion among all stakeholders on navigating mediation’s best future.
1st Key-Leadership: Establish Strong, Collaborative, Mediative Leadership
Leadership is a skill. It is something everyone does at multiple points throughout their lives, whether they consider themselves leaders or not.
1st Key-Leadership: The Youth Shall Lead Us
Humbling as it may be for adults to admit, the sages who can unlock the Golden Age of mediation may actually be the youth.
1st Key-Leadership: Adopt The Edinburgh Declaration
At the conclusion of a recent conference, following superb presentations emphasizing the value of principled and interest-based negotiation by William Ury and Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, almost 100 mediators signed the "Edinburgh Declaration," an inspirational expression of belief and commitment. The Edinburgh Declaration explains why we mediate, something that is rarely publicly expressed.
2nd Key-Data: Bring Objective Science to Mediation
After 47 empirical studies, the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section’s Task Force report, “Research on Mediator Techniques,” was perplexing.
2nd Key-Data: Run the Global Pound Conference (GPC) Series Every 5-7 Years
As insights and priorities continue to emerge from the data from the 2016-17 Global Pound Conference, its unique value becomes increasingly apparent.
2nd Key-Data: Develop a Negotiation Index
Folklore was the class at university that fundamentally altered how I view the world.
3rd Key - Education: Teach Mediation as a Core Subject Aligned to Real World Needs
Mediation is rarely taught as a core subject in business schools, law schools and other professional curricula, despite the fact that an increasing number of jurisdictions now provide for some form of court sponsored mediation.
3rd Key-Education: Ensure the Future Through Mentoring and Practice Programs for New Mediators
Practicing mediators with advanced knowledge, skills and experience need to support the next generations of mediators to ensure a positive and vibrant future of mediation.
3rd Key-Education: Include Learning in Psychology & Brain Science to Enhance Mediator Practice
Fundamentally, mediators work with people’s psychologies and identities, their worldviews and self-views - everything that makes up what it is to be a human being.
3rd Key-Education: Train Mediators to be Culture-wise, not Culture-blind
Perplexed by the slow uptake of mediation in many places, is it time to wonder whether the mediation field has taken sufficient account of the centrality of culture?
4th Key-Professionalism: Act to Ensure Mediation is Respected as a True Professional Practice
This article discusses the importance of professionalism to ensure that mediation is being taken seriously.
4th Key-Professionalism: Modernize the Culture Driving Legal Practice
This article discusses professionalism and the need to modernize our mediation culture.
4th Key-Professionalism: Encourage Mediation and Arbitration Integration
This article discusses the importance of bridging mediation and arbitration.
4th Key-Professionalism: Create a Universal Code of Disclosure
Universal mediation standards have been a controversial issue ever since the rise of mediation as a dispute resolution process.
5th Key-Technology: Take Advantage of ODR’s Full Potential
Online Dispute Resolution (“ODR”) is now universal, especially since the Coronavirus pandemic began.
5th Key-Technology: Embrace and Integrate Relevant New Technologies
Much ink has been spilled on the future of mediation, and how robots may someday take over from humans. However, mediation is not an empirical science that can be reduced to algorithms.
6th Key-Government: Make Mediation a Prerequisite to Civil Litigation
Buckminster’s Law derives from the futurist and inventor, R. Buckminster Fuller, who dedicated his life to “making the world work”.
6th Key-Government: Sign, Ratify, and Implement the Singapore Convention on Mediation
The Singapore Convention on Mediation can have a significant influence on the international appetite for mediation.
6th Key-Government: Actively Support UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, & Security
Resolution 1325 marks the first time that the UNSC affirmed the critical role of women in conflict resolution and peace building.
6th Key-Government: Help Governments Lead Mediation into the Mainstream
Governments play a vital role in the advent of a Golden Age of mediation in three critical areas: generating robust data; mobilizing public and professional engagement; and, most visibly of all, inspiring uptake and demonstrating that they “walk the talk”.
7th Key-Usage: Invest to Generate Instinctive User Recognition and Demand
How can an appreciation of mediation be developed in the marketplace?
7th Key-Usage: Expand the Value of Mediation Into Deal-Making
Mediation is a malleable process that parties and neutrals adapt to different areas of practice, cultures, and practitioner demands.
7th Key-Usage: Forge a User-driven Vision for Mediation; Then Fund It
Today the mediation field needs to go further. It needs to articulate a new, mature, vision. One that unlocks its Golden Age.
The Seven Keys Conclusion: Many Paths, One Way
The likelihood of conflict and conflicting ideologies makes effective resolution of disputes and the negotiation of sustainable deals crucially important.
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