Business Conflict Blog

 The Annual Conference of the International Bar Association opened on Sunday night October 30, 2011, with an address by Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and, with the IAEA, 2005 Nobel laureate.  He focused on the dynamic state of the Middle East and addressed both the rule of law as an incentivizing influence on the creation of the society in which we want to live, and the role of the lawyer as social engineer. Read more »

Tags: conflict management, Human Rights, Lawyers

The second film on the use of facilitated dialogue to ease corporate/community tensions has been posted online.  It may be viewed by clicking here. Read more »

Tags: conflict management, Culture, Mediation

The film concerning the use of mediation to resolve generations-old disputes between communities and corporations in Luzon, Philippines, has been completed and released.  It is available for free viewing at www.BASESwiki.org.

Tags: ADR Institutions, Corporate Social Responsibility, Culture, Mediation

I had a good chuckle at an article that appears in the current issue of Dispute Resolution International, the journal of the Dispute Resolution Section of the International Bar Association.  Daniele Cutolo and Mark Alexander Shalaby discuss a case brought in Italy to test whether an Italian statute requiring mediation prior to certain consumer court proceedings violates Article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, ensuring access to the courts.  The lower court found that it did.

Ya gotta smile.

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Tags: Human Rights, Mediation, Public Policy