Commercial Mediation Articles
(5/05/20)Jim Melamed The "digitization of mediation," now on steroids with the Covid-19 pandemic, has resulted in dramatic changes and new opportunities for mediators and the mediation field. A part of this includes new meanings for old words.
(4/13/20)Jonathan Rodrigues This article is an opinion piece by one reader and examines if our world leaders responded to the COVID-19 crisis with empathy.
(4/10/20)Natalie Davis The author discusses the critical need of regional international organizations (RIOs) to intervene in ethnic conflicts, but notes some of the surrounding limitations to creating sustainable peace, such as the level of violence or the restrictions an organization might face in their very design.
(4/10/20)Laila Ollapally This article examines the Singapore Convention: An opportunity to make mediation the default response.
(4/10/20)David Huebner The equation is immutable: disruption of supply chains + intervention by governments to manage noncommercial priorities = dramatic increase in disputes among private business entities. COVID-19 has brought much production, transport and commercial activity to a near halt.
(4/03/20)Lidia Staron As good financial management skills serve as a blueprint for success, bad money management habits may force you into bigger conflicts in the future.
(3/20/20)Yvette Durazo Nowadays, with the Corona-virus taking precedent over our businesses, professional and personal lives, leaders are facing high levels of stress.
(3/08/20)Ranse Howell When there is a disruption to any part of the supply chain, the impact is felt globally. We are seeing this now with the coronavirus (COVID-19).
(3/06/20)Ranse Howell We live in a connected world with intricate networks of supply chain and service relationships and any delay can result in multiple commercial challenges.
(2/29/20)Sahil Kanuga On July 31, 2019, the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the signing of the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (popularly referred to as the “Singapore Convention”) by the Republic of India.
(2/21/20)John Lande I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The law can be a very dangerous thing.
(2/11/20) Emma-May Litchfield and Danielle Hutchinson, Resolution Resources, Australia The International Mediation Institute is delighted to present the GPC North America Report—a comparative analysis and recommendations based on open text questions asked at GPC events in the USA and Canada.
(1/31/20)Katie Shonk Online negotiation offers negotiators and their organizations convenience, speed, and cost savings. But negotiating via email and videoconferencing, in particular, poses challenges that need to be overcome.
(1/17/20)Kathleen Kauth Conflict in the workplace is extremely costly.
(1/17/20)James Dorian For practitioners of the law, mediation is a well-known concept that became part of their lives.
(1/17/20)Mary Salisbury This article addresses an often overlooked asset in divorce, the burial plot, and the surprising negative consequences of failing to address this asset in the divorce decree.
(1/03/20)Arran Heal Between 2008 and 2009, 35 employees of France Télécom committed suicide.
(12/27/19)Kathleen Kauth Gossip in the office can be very damaging, causing hidden (and sometimes not so hidden) conflicts.
(12/12/19)Ranse Howell As part of a broader commitment to expand JAMS’ global footprint, the JAMS International Operations group recently organized an event in Beijing, China.
(12/06/19)Emma Hartman If you are, as they say, a left-brained person, you may find it difficult to manage conflict in the workplace when it springs up between employees.
(12/06/19)Stanley Santire The fundamental concept of the Convention began in 1958 with the signing of the New York Convention. That concept is the obligation of contracting nation states to give effect to private agreements emerging from alternative dispute resolution.
(11/15/19)Arran Heal By the time workplace disputes have reached the attention of Employee Relations, mediation starts to look like a last chance saloon for informal resolution.
(11/15/19)Jamie Costello As a business owner, it’s extremely important to familiarize yourself with dispute resolution and the processes you need to take depending on the severity of a case.
(11/04/19)Maria Simpson Whether you’ve just received your first team leadership assignment or have been doing this for a while, it can be helpful to remind yourself – or become aware of – some guidelines for team leaders that can make your job easier.
(10/10/19)Amy Robertson Workplace conflicts sometimes make me think of a song by the country-music duo Brothers Osborne called “It Ain’t My Fault.”
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