Facilitation Articles
Deescalating Verbal Attacks
After 28 years of marriage, you wouldn’t be surprised to hear me say my husband I and get into arguments, at times.
Texting Your Way To Resolution!
Perhaps in our lives we need to take a cue from hostage negotiators.
An Academic Journal on Hispanic America Online Dispute Resolution
The inaugural ODR journal: Opening Ways of Knowledge for Hispano America.
What Is E-Mediation?
The internet has become an indispensable business resource as more companies rely on online tools.
Review Analyzes Impact of Conflict and Stress on the Workplace
With the advent of COVID-19, workplace conflict and stress have become front of mind problems for many organizations.
Group Decision-Making on Complex Public Issues: An experiment with structure.
This article is a comparison of two facilitation approaches to group decision-making.
Mediation In Greece
This article discusses mediation in Greece, how the “Journey” started and the current situation.
Mediators Green Pledge
Promoting the Mediators Green Pledge is now the purpose of a new WoMACC site. It seems to be one way to commit to our future. I invite you to sign up to the Green Pledge and to promote it to those you know and work with.
Una Revista Academia Sobre ODR
Abriendo Caminos de Conocimiento para LatinoAmerica
Because Mediators Deserve a Personality Test Too
This is a personality test, just for those in the dispute resolution field. Because mediators deserve a personality test too.
The Singapore Convention and the JAMS/SCMC Joint Mediation Panel
This article discusses new opportunities for cross-border mediation, collaboration and dialogue.
A Transformative Mediator Intervening in a Commercial Would-Be Dispute
On September 15th, 2020 IDI, the International Distribution Institute organized a webinar focused on possible solutions for re-starting distribution and retail/franchising relationships which have suffered difficulties during lock- down, and which are still suffering difficulties in order to adapt to the restrictive measures imposed by the COVID pandemic.
Evaluating Mediation’s Future
In her journal article, Professor Archerd advocates for using facilitative techniques to distinguish mediation from other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
Mediating Conflict in the Time of Covid-19
This article addresses internal and external skills for mediators to use during this time of Covid-19, to raise awareness of internal biases, and shift those biases in order to skillfully mediate for our clients.
Mediation in Dollars and Sense
Conflicts impose many concealed costs in businesses, which can compound over time and damage an organization’s bottom line. While a manager or business leader may be uninterested in the good feelings that mediation can generate, they should care about mediation as a highly effective tool for improving their organization’s conflict resolution structure - and balance sheet.
Envisioning Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) for Internet Service Provider Outages
Before the pandemic, losing your internet connectivity was frustrating; now, losing connectivity can truly be detrimental to your health and safety. This article proposes a new model for redress where independent ombudspersons help consumers get fair redress for lost connections, enabling equitable outcomes and leveling the playing field.
Mediated Settlement Agreements in India - To Enforce or Not ?
Article 30 of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration encourages resolution of disputes through a settlement between parties by way of mediation.
A Beginners Guide to Mediation - If you Aren't Doing Empathy or Curiosity, You Probably Aren't Mediating ...
Learning to mediate has been likened to learning to speak another language. Personally, I think it’s more difficult than that.
Fight or Flight & Other So-So Responses to Conflict
Fight, Flight, Freeze—that what neurobiologists say are our ancestral (and current) unconscious response choices in a threatening or conflict situation.
Creating Accessible Mediation
This paper summarizes legal and ethical reasons for accessible meditations and provides a summary of how to accomplish this goal.
October Month of Conflict Resolution Week 2: Featuring 4 Peacebuilding Think-Tanks Across the World
As part of our special series for Conflict Resolution Month this October, this is our second article where we have highlighted the following research institutes and think tanks across the world.
Use Silence in Facilitating
What can a facilitator do with an extremely persistent person, who refuses to stop interrupting others in mediating or facilitating?
ODR in India: Opportunity, Challenges, and the Obvious
This article will provide a brief overview of the current status of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) in India by examining the opportunity and challenges the ODR brings and faces receptively in India.
Mediation: Movement, Business, or Racket?
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Will mediation fall into this trap?