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"[A]n offbeat online confessional in pursuit of reflective mediation."

Author: Geoff Sharp is a commercial mediator in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Justices seek justice, not peace*
Just 3 years after Fisher & Ury's Getting to Yes started us on a journey most readers of this blog are yet to complete, Yale University's Owen Fiss delivered his powerful 1984 polemic Against Settlement…
The Future of Civil Mediation
Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls on The Future of Civil Mediation -keynote speech at last week's Civil Mediation Council National Conference, Birmingham, UK."... what can perhaps be said is that a horse…
The Power of Mediation
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 - Former UK Foreign Secretary Douglas - now Lord - Hurd on the power of mediation in political and diplomatic conflicts[click on the title of this post to read more...]
Two new videos on negotiation
1. Negotiation & The Art of War Strategies by Osama El-Kadi, who specialises in applying Sun Tzu Art of War strategies in advanced strategic negotiation training.It's a bit sales'ee but see what you think.Watch the…
Delegates at AAA Annual Meeting use electronic voting to express their views on mediator competency certification
Washington DC, May 9th 2008 - Participants at the American Arbitration Association's 2008 Annual Meeting spent two hours focusing on mediator competency certification.Presentations by Wolf Von Kumberg of Northrop Grumman Corporation, Nancy Lesser of PAX…
What UK Mediators Charge
In a kiss and tell article in the latest issue of The Mediator Magazine all is revealed about UK mediators' charge out rates in The Price is Wrong"... Setting charge-out rates for mediators is a…
Spying on Big Law
My view? We ignore what's happening within our client base at our peril - so law firms are fair game - we mediators need to spy.Take a look at this crystal gazing trends in corporate…
Diversity in the conflict resolution business
Bob Creo, a Pittsburgh attorney-neutral, has just completed a one-year mentor fellowship he designed and funded.He is now readying a diversity plan he hopes will be replicated by conflict resolution practitioners coast to coast.The goal,…
Dinner with a theorist?
Back in 2006 11 dinners were arranged at 11 of Boston's finest restaurants by the organizers of the Environmental and Public Policy section meeting of the Association of Conflict Resolution.At each of these dinners two…
Mediator as juror
Massachusetts mediator Patrick Field got called up for jury service at the Middlesex County Superior Court in January.'As a mediator and citizen, I asked myself: how could two professionals - not to mention the judicial…