Facilitation Articles
(9/20/21)Patricia Thompson Large-scale global construction disputes often present a complicated mix of factors, such as publicity-associated risks, government oversight, huge project size, a large number of implicated parties and momentous damage issues.
(9/20/21)Irma Gonzalez Judge Irma Gonzalez has spent the last eight years at JAMS as a mediator, arbitrator, special master/referee and neutral evaluator. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we spoke with Judge Gonzalez about how she started in ADR, her accomplishments, the challenges that she’s faced and her advice to younger generations.
(9/17/21)Mary Salisbury The responsibilities of a plan administrator include reviewing QDROs or DROs and then distributing the funds to the non-plan participant spouse once they have approved the order--which become difficult in a separation.
(9/17/21)Naveed Khan Conflict in the workplace is inevitable when people with different values and opinions come together.
(9/13/21)Kenneth Cloke It is difficult to understand anything fully until we recognize its limits -- the places where it falls apart, or miraculously comes together -- where it begins and ends, or transforms into something entirely different.
(9/13/21)Phyllis Pollack This discussion exemplifies one of those very few circumstances in which mediation may not be appropriate because a public policy is at stake.
(9/13/21)Beth Graham In this scholarly work, the authors examine the intersection of online dispute resolution and psychology.
(9/13/21)Kathleen Kauth What do helicopter parents do best? They hover.
(9/10/21)Sarah Peyton Yes and No are powerful words. What impact does saying each of them have on your body and nervous system?
(9/10/21)Yvette Durazo Many leaders are unable to de-escalate conflict themselves, let alone train their employees to do the same.
(9/08/21)Patrick Mastronardo Providing Florida LEP Individuals Meaningful Access to Mediation: Bilingual Mediator Guidance on Standards of Conduct.
(9/07/21)Cinnie Noble Adlai Stevenson once said, “Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”
(9/07/21)Phyllis Pollack "For centuries, we have shared common expectations of how we behave ethically in society, based largely on a mutual understanding of the reality in which our decisions play out. These underlying expectations have come to be guided by three pillars."
(9/07/21)John Peterson As the international business environment is quickly expanding, companies are merging and are therefore helping create a global workplace setting.
(9/07/21)Rebekah Ratliff In a recent episode of Insurance Business Talk, JAMS neutral Rebekah Ratliff speaks with host Paul Lucas on her experience as a Black woman in the insurance industry and where the industry is now in terms of issues relating to gender and race.
(8/30/21)Phyllis Pollack Despite the complexity of ethical issues, Ms. Liautaud has formula for making an ethical decision quite simple.
(8/30/21)Joy Rosenthal One of the things to think about when you are looking for a divorce mediator is whether they will meet with both of you together or will meet with you each separately.
(8/27/21)Lydia Ray Vulnerability as quoted from THE vulnerability researcher Brene Brown “is not winning or losing, it’s having the courage to show up even when you can’t control the outcome”.
(8/27/21)Sinéad Coneely The Act represents a significant turning point for the Irish Civil Justice system and is very significant for mediation.
(8/26/21)Milan Slama There are certain reoccurring themes, which frequently surface and resurface during the conversations, taking place during mediation meet-ups. These themes are often deeply ingrained in the conflicts, parties have with each other.
(8/24/21)Bill Quatman I read a Mediation Agreement that struck me as odd, perhaps unenforceable, maybe even unethical
(8/20/21)John Lande People often say that dispute resolution processes aren’t “one size fits all.”
(8/20/21)Katherine Graham Recent years have seen a strong tide towards protection of employee rights in employment tribunals, a heightened awareness of any form of discrimination, the damaging effects of throwaway remarks.
(8/20/21)Sarah Peyton What happens in our brains and bodies when life -- and conflict -- feels like too much for us?
(8/20/21)Maria Victoria Marun Much has been written about the future. However, when we read about "what will come" we see it as “something far away”.
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