Unless you have been living on Mars, you know that this year's ABA Dispute Resolution Section Conference will take place in Denver in two weeks -- April 13-16. I have been busy preparing the panel I am conducting with Jay Folberg and Dai Kato, and this morning was looking over the many...
As the next installment in a series of essays on alternatives to interest-based negotiation, the Hawaiian practice of ho'oponopono is discussed. In this spiritually-influenced ritual, secular conflicts are identified, brought to the table, admitted, and forgiven, and the family group achieves reconciliation and forgiveness....
Harvard Prof. John Ruggie, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for business and human rights, has released the final report of his work and presented it to the UN Human Rights Council. The Final Report is the definitive statement of principles for stakeholders in disputes implicating violations of human rights as a...
Over the transom from our good friends at the International Mediation Institute comes this announcement: The Inter-Cultural Taskforce of the IMI Independent Standards Commission (ISC), after a year of meetings and consultation, is publishing for comment Draft Criteria for the planned IMI Inter-Cultural Competency Certification of Mediators. Organisations approved by the ISC as an...
A recent post noted that Wang Cheng Jie, Secretary General of the Mediation Centers of the China Center for Promotion of International Trade, delivered an insightful and provocative presentation at the World Mediation Forum in Athens on March 12. Mr. Wang has kindly given permission for his remarks to appear on...
The 15th meeting of the UIA World Forum of Mediation Centers was held March 11-12 in Athens. About 130 people attended, many of them Greek attorneys, by far the largest assembly in this group's history. The meeting took place about a month after the enactment in Greece of a mediation law...
For the past two years, Lawrence Newman has chaired a Working Group at the CPR Institute studying determination of damages in arbitration, and he advises that the group's end product, a Protocol on Determination of Damages in Arbitration, has now been released. Its full text appears below....