Mediation Ethics Articles
(10/19/20)John Sturrock 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.
(10/15/20)Josh Srago 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.
(10/09/20)Michael Jacobs Learning to mediate has been likened to learning to speak another language. Personally, I think it’s more difficult than that.
(10/09/20)Heather Kennedy This paper summarizes legal and ethical reasons for accessible meditations and provides a summary of how to accomplish this goal.
(9/15/20)Hadassah Fidler Pitt and Jolie's divorce has taken a long time, filed for in 2016, although divorced in 2019 their agreement regarding child custody and financial assets is still ongoing.
(9/03/20)Judy Rashid As the world continues to grapple with racial injustice and unrest as masses of people from all ethnicities protest in the streets, this article examines the subliminal influence of historical racial symbols and practices namely, statues and monuments, slave plantation sites and tours, market houses where slaves
were sold, and street names that bear the scars of slavery.
(8/28/20)Richard Barbieri, Bernard Mayer, Richard Susskind This work juxtaposes an announcement by AAA-ICDR with articles that promote dialogue to address racial: 1) Are We Ever Neutral? Should We Be? 2) Staying with Conflict - Election Edition: A Conflict Practitioner’s Lens on the US Election 3) What's the Right Thing to do When You are Really Angry About What's Happening in America?
(8/24/20)Andrea Maia, Gregg Relyea This article discusses the "Community Spread" of Mediation in a Post COVID-19 World.
(8/18/20)Daniel Rainey This article argues for the creation of a code of disclosure for mediators, domestically and internationally. Creating a set of categories that constitute an adequate disclosure of process and approach would help parties understand mediation and would be less daunting than trying to create a universal code of conduct or global set of mediation standards.
(8/17/20)Jim Melamed According to brand new 8/16/2020 data from Alexa.com, Mediate.com is most visited and most linked mediation website, by far!
(8/14/20)Michael Lang Is there something more I could do, as part of the human community that might make a difference?
(8/14/20)Greg Rooney The facilitative/ humanistic mediator has a more ambitious goal through the process of containing the parties in a supporting common space until the adjacent door opens to reveal a path forward.
(7/31/20)Rich Smukler, Gabriela Szlak If a person during a caucus session tells the mediator that he committed a crime which had nothing to do with the case in mediation, what does the mediator do?
(7/28/20)Lorraine Segal Being open to difficult feedback, even about racism, can help you grow.
(7/25/20)Tim Hicks, John Sturrock Fundamentally, mediators work with people’s psychologies and identities, their worldviews and self-views - everything that makes up what it is to be a human being.
(7/20/20)Ana Gonçalves, Francois Bogacz, Daniel Rainey Universal mediation standards have been a controversial issue ever since the rise of mediation as a dispute resolution process.
(7/17/20)Judy Rashid Since the untimely and senseless killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, the response from many organizations, places of work, and corporations have been to hold listening sessions specifically for African Americans to “share their story” with their peers.
(7/15/20)Francois Bogacz, Jeremy Lack Much ink has been spilled on the future of mediation, and how robots may someday take over from humans. However, mediation is not an empirical science that can be reduced to algorithms.
(7/05/20)Michael Leathes Today the mediation field needs to go further. It needs to articulate a new, mature, vision. One that unlocks its Golden Age.
(7/05/20)Veronique Fraser, Joan Stearns Johnsen Mediation is a malleable process that parties and neutrals adapt to different areas of practice, cultures, and practitioner demands.
(7/04/20)Joanna Kalowski The likelihood of conflict and conflicting ideologies makes effective resolution of disputes and the negotiation of sustainable deals crucially important.
(7/01/20) The complete compilation of all 7 Keys to Unlock Mediation's Golden Age.
(6/25/20)Michael Lang Michael Lang describes an account where he was teaching reflective practice, a practice that enables mediators to be more aware of their own methods and why they are using them.
(6/25/20)Gregg Relyea, David Bogan This article series includes viewpoints on the current state of conflict resolution from all 7 continents. This article focuses on North America.
(6/20/20)Kenneth Cloke Every officer learns to use violence and the martial arts. How many learn empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence?
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