Dear all, 

I'd like to invite you to join my special guests and me.

I've just started a new blog, "Caucus On Mediation" (caucusonmediation.com).

Best wishes,

Corrado Mora

JAMS, the largest private provider of mediation and arbitration services worldwide, announced that it has launched a new blog to discuss trends, news and issues within Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Some of the topics that will be covered include discussions about legal processes affecting ADR, articles from specific practice areas, posts that highlight organizations supporting ADR in the United States and abroad and more.

“This is another…

Transparent Mediation: Giving Away Our Strategies

Alan E. Gross- When mediators act as trainers, they often offer classes designed to improve conflict management and to convert disputes into…

This week I watched an interesting TED talk about extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. And it made me wonder if this could help conflict resolution in businesses. [As a side note, TED is an outlet that posts talks on a variety of topics. I have yet to find one that isn't incredibly interesting and practical. If you haven't checked it out, you should - www.ted.com]. I've posted the talk below, and I highly recommend you watch at least the first…

(originally published on http://dialogicmediation.com)

I'm pleased to note that mediate.com has published my review of the latest addition to the transformative mediation literature, Transformative Mediation - A Sourcebook  Resources for Conflict Intervention Practitioners and…

(Originally posted at Absolution Mediation)

Where did you come from?  Where are you now? Where are you heading?



This weekend I had the privilege to read over the story of my great-grandparents journey as they lived in the Netherlands and later moved to Canada.  Amazing people!  Such courage and determination they showed!







Then I read about my Opa (who is one of the role…

(Originally posted at Absolution Mediation)

This past week I had the pleasure of being a speaker at Tweetstock in Brantford, Ontario where we talked about the Art of Community.  There I talked about how to engage with conflict, both online and offline.  I'll get more into what I talked about possibly in the next few weeks, but one thing I did talk about is Intent.…

• EU leaders agreed on Friday to tighten migration safeguards, in a controversial response to an influx of migrants fleeing North Africa's upheaval. The refugee crisis sparked a debate over the extent that EU governments should share the responsibility for immigrants arriving elsewhere in the bloc.
• Poland…

OK, I love art. I think it should be conserved, supported, used, observed, etc. So when stories pop up about museums deaccessioning pieces (i.e. selling off pieces in their collections), it's concerning. What if the object disappears into a private collection never to be seen again? What if the buyer sticks it in storage? Loses it? Rips it? Lets dust settle into the centuries-old paint? Obviously, the chances of this happening are slim, but I tend to be one of those worse-case-scenario type…

Soliya, a non-profit organization using a custom-made web-conferencing application to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe, is now recruiting skilled volunteers to facilitate its Connect Program for Spring 2012 semester.

As always our volunteer facilitation position includes a free-of-charge online facilitation and conflict resolution training. If you are interested in facilitating during the Spring 2012 Connect Program, you…

• A court in Oman sentenced 55 people to prison on Tuesday for taking part in protests demanding jobs. The accused were found guilty of offences including robbery, unlawful gathering, and vanalising government departments. The protests happened between March and May.
• Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon…

Special thanks to Michael Southcott for his submissions.

• President Hugo Chavez of Venezuelaspent nearly two weeks  recovering from surgery in Cuba after swelling in his pelvis and has been out of public sight since, causing much speculation  that he may be seriously…

• On Friday, suspected insurgents killed two civilians  and wounded another four in a triple bombing attack in Thailand, near the Malaysian border. Thailand faces an election July 3rd, in a vote that the opposition…

Defying The Rules of Conflict Resolution (Israel & Palestine)

By ALON BEN-MEIR 

The study of conflict resolution is prefaced on the notion that two parties in conflict desire a mutually acceptable resolution to their dispute, however intractable it…

Sad you can’t make it to Portland for the ACR EPP conference 6/28-29/2011?

Don’t fret – Just join us online!

This will be the most wired ACR EPP conference ever, and as such, we have a ton of internet enabled participation options for you to take advantage of:

The online conference homepage is http://acresolution.net …

• The meeting of religious leaders from Armenia and Georgiadid not result in any concrete agreements on disputes between the quasi-official churches after nearly one week of talks.
• Thousands of people marched on Parliament in Athens,…