Registration for the 2021 COFO Annual Conference, “Rising Up With Resilience”, is now open! This year’s conference will be held virtually from 9 AM – 5 PM Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, October 15^th, 2021, and you can register for it now at …

Here is the compilation of resources harvested at the 2021 Legal Educators’ Resource Share which this year was held during the virtual ABA DR Section Conference.

Sharon Press and I appreciated seeing so many colleagues attend the session, and their continued generosity in sharing their experience.

This is the…

Community Mediation Phase Four

Measuring Community Mediation Success: A Realistic Approach

            The success, or failure, of the community mediation project is subjective. Small wins for one stakeholder may be a monumental accomplishment for another. Mediation participants may even see their original resolution objective evolve during the process.  This is good news because it demonstrates the ability to learn and develop one’s opinions and beliefs. The efficacy of…

“The progress of the law relating to unfair labour practices has been torturous and rendered a body of jurisprudence that is complex and confusing. Recent developments have rendered it unnecessary to rehearse that in this article”…

The Community Mediation Process

Phase Three – The Mediation

            Phase Three of the community mediation process examines the “mediation table” essentials. We have laid the groundwork in Phase One and Phase Two – Planning and Preparation.  Those who have, or who are, involved in community dispute resolution will testify that the heavy lifting involved in community mediation really begins with these stages. Once fully planned and…

Design for Justice: Community Mediation

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research (NCMR)

Special Issue Call for Papers

Lessons from Practice: Extensions of Current Negotiation Theory and Research

Submission Deadline: January 15,…

Community conflict is a fact of life. This year has created new and critical challenges that fuel social and cultural unrest. Many communities are turning to mediation as a way to achieve understanding, resolve conflict and create a better future for their citizens. This article is part one of a four part series addressing the four important steps in the community mediation process: planning, preparation and design, process, evaluation and monitoring.

            Mediation is unique…

Tuesday, September 1st, 12 noon US Central Time

Experiencing systemic injustice such as racism, misogyny, and colonialism can be hard to name. And even after seeing and naming this kind of injustice, people struggle with how it is normalized and hidden. Why and how is systemic injustice normalized? How can we stop the perpetuation of injustice within our…

At the point when a couple chooses to end off their relationship, it's generally the situation that they wish to separate their lives when practicably conceivable. This can demonstrate hard to do in the event that you claimed property together during the relationship.

Settling property matters is a…

Here is the compilation of resources harvested at the 2020 Legal Educators’ Resource Share which this year was held during the virtual ABA DR Section Conference.

Sharon and I appreciated seeing so many colleagues attend the session, and their continued generosity in sharing their experience.

This is the…

During this Free event, online mediators and mediators interested in online mediation will learn:

• How to plan, set up, and manage Zoom Breakout Rooms in an online mediation of a multi-party dispute

• How their parties/clients experience being inside a…

Sharon Press and I gave a webinar last week on conducting simulations in courses transitioning to Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms. The video is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hdz-NI6Xr4&

Feel very welcome to view and to share. Our…

It is one of the oldest lawyer jokes in the book, and its punchline is about to change.

Remember the New Yorker cartoon, in which a lawyer and their client sit at a table, and the lawyer assesses the client’s legal problem? “You have a pretty good case,” the lawyer informs him, “How much justice can you afford?”

The client’s response is unvoiced in the cartoon, but moving beyond the punchline, one can imagine the client’s heart sinking,…

When John Lande gave me a preview of his new book (written with Michaela Keet and Heather Heavin)  Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment, I read it in one gulp. It was everything they never taught me in law school, and many of the mistakes I’ve seen lawyers make while counseling their clients in mediation, all rolled into one.

The book explains how lawyers, mediators, and settlement…

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Introducing the concept of Resource-based Dispute Management. The focus is on the limitation of natural resources.

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Only four years ago, John Zeleznikow and I wrote an article on field-wide governance for the field of Online Dispute Resolution. Published in Negotiation Journal, it was called  …

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