NPR's Invisibilia podcast of July 25 featured a case study of the psychological concept of complementarity. In Aarhus, Denmark, two crime prevention police officers 'flipped the script' on responses to jihadi youth returning home after having travelled to Syria More

’m just back from attending the 2016 international conference on transformative practice held in Dayton, Ohio, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, and hosted, planned, organized, and managed by the Dayton Mediation Center. It’s been eight years since I attended a transformative mediation conference. In the intervening period,…

(First published on my blog at mediationinottawa.ca)

Geoff Sharp of New Zealand has pointed me to a very well-made short film, The Mediator, that has been shown in a number of American regional film festivals. In the post on Geoff's mediation firm's blog, the writer states, "it's so good you could even chalk it up to CPD [continuing professional…

(First published on March 16, 2015 at Mediation in Ottawa)

This infographic illustrates why alternative processes of dispute resolution (ADR) such as mediation may be a wiser choice (Read more)

(Originally published in the blog of conflictconversations.org)

Mediation, including family mediation, is not regulated in Ontario. There are, however, a number of voluntary associations that can attest to the credentials or the skills of their members. Nonetheless, it’s crucial then that couples in search of…

(First published in Conflict Conversations Blog)

As I understand it as a layperson, child support in Ontario is payable until the child reaches the age of 18 or until the child is awarded their first diploma from a postsecondary educational…

(First published in Conflict Conversations blog)

A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision, Union Carbide Canada Inc. v. Bombardier Inc., 2014 SCC…

(First published on Conflict Conversations Blog)

An incarceration order was one of the outcomes of a final default proceeding heard over two days in February 2014 by the Ontario Court of…

(First published in conflictconversations.org)

When Tammy Lenski posted on her blog yesterday the Chinese…

On February 20, 2014, the National Assembly of Quebec unanimously approved An Act to establish the new Code of Civil Procedure. Bertrand St-Arnaud, Quebec's Minister of Justice, noted that these reforms …

Musician Daryl Davis is, by his own admission, obsessed with understanding extreme racism: how can he be hated for the colour of his skin by someone who doesn't know him.

In the Love +…

(Originally published in the conflict conversations blog)

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(First published in Conflictconversations.org)

Dr. Athena Staik has imagined what a child might say to warring parents to mitigate the harm done by their conflict. Click …

(First published on conflictconversations.org)…

Sure, it's Valentine's Day, but it's also V-Day, which since 2008 has been a day of action to end violence against women and girls.

Watch this video, and if you're a man, become part of the solution!

Transformative practitioners characterize the nature of conflict as a crisis in human interaction. One of the many features of this crisis is a breakdown in our capacity to recognize or respond to others. We call it 'self-absorption'. Another way of thinking about our capacity for openness to others, which is wounded in conflict, is empathy.…

(Originally published at conflictconversations.org/blog)

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(First published on Dialogic Mediation Services)

This quotation is taken from a recent post on Dr. Julie Macfarlane's blog on the National Self-Represented Litigants Project that takes its mandate from the National Self-Represented Litigants (SRL’s) Research…

(First published on Dialogic Mediation Services)

One way of looking at the mediation process is as a means by which disputants can explore the possibilities for resolving their differences, it being understood that the outcome of the process is entirely up to them. It's often said, 'the disputants own their differences while the mediator owns the process', or something to that effect.  But if mediation is predicated on…

(Originally published on Dialogic Mediation Services)

In the video below, Emma Seppala, Associate Director at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University reviews some of the latest scientific research on compassion at the…