Last year I had occasion to show a mediation video to a group of senior claims executives of European insurance companies who had assembled in Zurich. They loved it, and I was reminded just how powerful this video is to introduce the process of cross-border, cross-cultural interest-based facilitated negotiation to business...
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If ever there were a "poster child" for commercial dispute resolution on the basis of shared interest, it is in the ongoing relationship between franchisors and franchisees. The franchisor makes money only if the franchisee sells, and the franchisee sells only if the franchisor supports. What better example of the mutual benefits...
In her excellent blog (linked on the home page of this blog), Diane Levin does us a great service by cutting to the quick of the debate on certification. Her post is an essential read....
Over the past 18 months I have been getting more and more involved with the "Conflict Transformation Committee" of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. That's like Quakers. Like the oatmeal. And it's going to get worse before it gets better....
Victoria Pynchon's "Settle It Now Negotiation Blog" is always worth reading, and a recent post struck paydirt: A link to an article by Donald R. Philbin, Jr., on the use of decision tree analysis -- and other tools -- in assisting parties to intelligently negotiate claims and defenses. It is...
This article was first published in Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The 2008 Fordham Papers (2009) The rise of China as a trade partner to the United States, and the legal and commercial ramifications of this phenomenon, have been widely observed and commented upon. This article relates some experiences...
This article appears in the April 2009 edition of the Mediation Newsletter of the International Bar Association. An entire day of the 2008 IBA Conference in Buenos Aires was devoted to the topic of the interrelationship among Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights. Organized by James E. Brumm, A....