At the IBA in Dubai last week, a three-hour session was held on "The Rise of Multiculturalism and Resulting Challenges of Managing Diversity in the Workplace." While the subjects discussed were fascinating, the subjects not discussed might have been even more so. ...
The Annual Conference of the International Bar Association opened on Sunday night October 30, 2011, with an address by Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and, with the IAEA, 2005 Nobel laureate. He focused on the dynamic state of the Middle East and addressed both the...
The second film on the use of facilitated dialogue to ease corporate/community tensions has been posted online. It may be viewed by clicking here....
Juris Publishing has issued a wonderful, concise and revelatory volume edited by arbitration gurus Larry Newman and Ben Shepard. Take the Witness is a collection of do's, don'ts, and real-life examples that thread the fine needle of cross-examination before a panel of international arbitrators -- many of whom are unfamiliar with,...
The first of three short films on community/corporate relationships, on the Ambuklao/Binga dams in Luzon, is about to be premiered at the United Nations, in Geneva, on June 16. We are also just about finished the second one, concerning the Tintaya mine in Peru. An interesting coincidence has arisen in...
At the recent meeting of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section in Denver, Dai Kato of the University of Colorado and Jay Folberg of the JAMS Foundation offered stimulating -- even inspirational -- examples of modern-day practices of dispute resolution in Japan and Bali. These insights test our assumptions of how...
Continuing with the series on models of conflict resolution that are not based on the parties' interests, below is reproduced another chapter in a proposed book on alternatives to Western mediation methods. This one -- the Arab practice of sulha -- is centuries old, pre-dating even the Prophet, and its motivating considerations are an...