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 International Bar Association opens its Annual Meeting on Sunday October 30, 2011, in Dubai with an eagerly anticipated address by Nobel laureate Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei.  During the week, the IBA Mediation Committee, under the confident leadership of Babak Barin of Montreal, will offer some robust and discriminating panels.

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Tags: ADR, Mediation, systems design

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

Juris Publishing has issued a wonderful, concise and revelatory volume edited by arbitration gurus Larry Newman and Ben Shepard.  Take the Witness is a collection of do’s, don’ts, and real-life examples that thread the fine needle of cross-examination before a panel of international arbitrators — many of whom are unfamiliar with, and perhaps even skeptical of, this common-law tradition. 

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Tags: Arbitration