Don't make me swear to it, but I believe it was Karl Slaikeu who first presented to me the four stages -- or, better, "declensions" -- of ending a conflict. If it was somebody else, my apology. Which, by the way, is the first stage....
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I am spending this week in beautiful Silver Bay, New York, on the western side of Lake George. There, at a grand old historic YMCA summer camp, the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) holds its annual summer conference. Quakers are a "peculiar people"...
Frederic Luskin, Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, reminded a packed house at the ABA Dispute Resolution meeting in San Francisco that a 2-yr old who is told "no" screams and yells when she doesn't get what she wants, but then eventually stops and moves on to the next thing. ...
In his keynote address to the Section of Dispute Resolution of the American Bar Association, MIT Professor Lawrence Susskind urged that it was time for ADR professionals to get involved in the failure of meaningful discourse in American public life, and to assist people to talk to each other about deeply...
The third and final student paper I intend to share addresses the emergence of Islamic law in countries that are, or promise to be, important trade partners with western businesses. ...
Part I of this post summarized reports from Spain, South Africa, Bahrain, Pakistan and the Balkans. This second and concluding part presents reports from Argentina, the United States and Europe broadly....
A panel of eight speakers at the Madrid IBA Conference spoke on "Projects, Practices and Policies: Developments from the World of Mediation." This is the first of a two-part report on the presentations offered....