Dispute Resolution: The Fourth R

What will be the consequences of a public skilled in dealing creatively with conflicts? Will universities and law schools be ready when these students enter their classrooms? Will community violence, particularly juvenile crime, decrease? Will suits cease to be the answer? Will lawyers change their style or go out of style? Will the foundations of our legal system be challenged? Will people who feel confident in handling their personal amd community disputes in a non-adversarial manner demand that governments solve international disputes without violence? We do not know the answers to these questions, but the impact of teaching dispute resolution skills to children certainly will be profound

Ethics: No One Ever Said It Would Be Easy: Bush\u27s Contribution to Mediation Practice

The beauty of Robert Baruch Bush\u27s research on ethics is that his conclusions grow out of the real life experiences of mediators.\u27 Yes, his interpretation is influenced by his own biases, and yes, the Florida mediation scene, where he made his observations, is not a microcosm of the rest of the nation or the world; nevertheless, in spite of these limitations, he did a remarkable job of capturing the dilemmas that most mediators face

L’essentielle Mary Parker Follett : des réponses pour s’organiser et vivre ensemble

Traduit de : The Essential Mary Parker Follett: Ideas We Need Today par François Héon et Sébastien DamartNational audienceL’Essentielle Mary Parker Follett: Des réponses pour s’organiser et vivre ensemble est une sélection de textes de l’intellectuelle et pionnière du 20ème siècle Mary Parker Follett. Ses idées avant-gardistes sur le leadership, la diversité, la médiation, le management et la démocratie demeurent des plus contemporaines et pertinentes pour notre monde actuel. Pour la première fois, des citations qui englobent l’ensemble de sa philosophie et de ses oeuvres ont été sélectionnées, organisées et structurées par une équipe internationale en cinq thèmes. Ce livre présente des pensées intemporelles sur la diversité, l'organisation en groupe, le processus d'intégration, le leadership et la démocratie - des thèmes universels qui sont tout aussi importants et applicables à nos vies professionnelles et personnelles aujourd'hui qu'ils l'étaient il y a 100 ans

Call to restrict neonicotinoids

On 28 April 2018 the European Parliament voted for a complete and permanent ban on all outdoor uses of the three most commonly used neonicotinoid pesticides. With the partial exception of the state of Ontario, Canada, governments elsewhere have failed to take action. Below is a letter, signed by 232 scientists from around the world, urgently calling for global action by policy makers to address this issue