Collaborative Scotland
Core Solutions Group Scotland is having a referendum on its constitutional future. As I write this, it is exactly six months until we vote. Whatever the outcome in September’s referendum about...
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‘Is that, like, a mediation fight?’ Catch 22 for Mediators
Charlie Irvine Mediation Lots of talk about ADR competitions on this blog, so I’ll throw my hat in the ring. Last month I took a team of students to the INADR International Law Student Mediation...
View ArticleFalling Upward?
Core Solutions Group I have been reflecting recently on the individual and collective professional journeys we all undertake – and on the different stages we reach. My reading has taken me to a...
View ArticleContrasting mediations….richness awaits…..
Core Solutions Group I write here about two contrasting experiences which have, for me, underscored the richness of the mediation process. In one mediation, involving business partners with an ongoing...
View ArticleLessons in Life for Mediators?
Core Solutions Group I am interested in convergence – of ideas, of behaviour, of trends, of different disciplines. The more I read, the more common themes I discern in the arts, science, spirituality,...
View ArticleIt only takes a few moments……
Core Solutions Group It was just a few moments. “You can’t play on our course without proper golf shoes.” “But we played here two days ago in these shoes.” “My colleague must have made a mistake”. “But...
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The Physical Dimension of Mediation: lessons from Africa
Charlie Irvine Mediation I have written before on this blog about ‘mediating from the neck up’: my conviction that I was taught (and teach) a rationalistic, even cerebral, process that privileges...
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The Scottish Referendum: Torture for a Mediator
Charlie Irvine Mediation Five days from now Scotland may be on its way to becoming the world’s newest country. Or it may not. Just over four million of us will vote on September 18th to determine...
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The Scottish Referendum: Torture for a Mediator
Charlie Irvine Mediation Five days from now Scotland may be on its way to becoming the world’s newest country. Or it may not. Just over four million of us will vote on September 18th to determine...
View ArticleReflections from Scotland on a momentous day
Core Solutions Group Friends On this referendum day in Scotland, I am writing this piece without knowing the outcome. By the time most of you read this, our future will be clearer. And by then,...
View ArticleScotland: The Final Word?
Core Solutions Group “The key to doing well lies not in overcoming others, but in eliciting their co-operation.” Robert Axelrod “Although negotiation takes place every day, it is not easy to do well....
View ArticleMediator’s Proposals? A Story…
Core Solutions Group I have never been a great fan of mediator’s proposals. I took the view that the mediator’s job, done well, was to help the parties to come to a solution themselves. Party autonomy...
View ArticleReflecting on mediation as a new year beckons…..
Core Solutions Group As 2014 comes to an end, it is good to reflect. How privileged many of us are. I often remark to others that my “job” is better than “real work”. What do I mean when I say that? As...
View ArticleMediation Mastery
Core Solutions Group I was all set to write about climate change and, more particularly, to reflect on some excellent writing on that subject which addresses so-called climate change sceptics or...
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“The Past Need Not Dictate the Future”: What Mediators Know (or Can’t Help...
Charlie Irvine Mediation (This is the final part of a keynote address to the YMCA Conference “From Reactions to Relations” in Burton on Trent on 20 November 2014.) Having considered what we can’t help...
View ArticleReflections on the Current Climate – A Role for Third Siders?
Core Solutions Group This follows my blog last month about mediation and sustainability. In the run up to the vital COP meeting in Paris in December, what role for mediators and other third siders?...
View ArticleReading for Mediators…..
Core Solutions Group It’s funny how one thing leads to another. Regular Kluwer blogger Ian Macduff posted a great blog earlier this week on the importance of asking questions. That reminded me that I...
View ArticleMediation Games
Core Solutions Group John Nash died this week, in a tragic car accident. John Nash was the Nobel-prize winning mathematician whose theory of non-cooperative games published in 1950 has been described...
View ArticleLawyers of the future on mediation: threat or a promise?
Charlie Irvine Mediation We have just reached the end of the annual marking season (grading for North Americans). The verbal joust of examinations is almost over. Students get their blows in first;...
View ArticleMore Questions for Mediators
Core Solutions Group This week, I have had the genuine privilege of contributing one of the key note addresses at the Annual Conference of the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ)...
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