Africa Section
Mediation in Africa
Mediation: The Human Face of Conflict
The therapeutic value of a private one-on-one session means that participants are more likely to confide in the mediator.
The Growth of Mediation in Nigeria
This paper seeks to draw upon the experiences of Nigeria as a growing mediation movement to serve as a blueprint for emerging mediation movements.
Race and Caste, Gender and Patriarchy, Wealth and Class: Mediating the Systems, Structures, and Sources of Prejudice
As a society, we have not resolved many enduring disputes, or convinced each other, or even discussed them intelligently, but ended up instead screaming at one another, clashing violently, and being prepared to manipulate, and even jettison the entire democratic process if it doesn’t back the candidates and policies we support.
New Mediators' Guidance from Youth Conference
This article summarizes the Young Minds, Global Voices Conference. This conference was sponsored by Mediate.com in an effort to hear from newer mediators. These 6 sessions comprised up and coming thought leaders from around the globe, forming a brain trust for how to create peace in ourselves, our community and our world.
Full Video Posted of Forum on the Global Growth of Mediation
How do we best support the growth of mediation around the world? This Forum shared the perspectives of panelists from Nigeria, Argentina, Russia and India who compared and contrasted their experiences with online mediation and online training in developing mediation cultures.
The Singapore Convention on Mediation - Where’s Europe?
International commercial mediation - what a settlement agreement can do.
A Process for the Formulation of a School's Change Strategy
Many South African Schools are facing demands to change and even to radically transform themselves. Some of these demands relate to the ‘isms’ such as racism, and other identity related issues.
Racial Justice Conflict: How “Historical” Racial Symbols Shape Perception, Practices, and Policy
As the world continues to grapple with racial injustice and unrest as masses of people from all ethnicities protest in the streets, this article examines the subliminal influence of historical racial symbols and practices namely, statues and monuments, slave plantation sites and tours, market houses where slaves were sold, and street names that bear the scars of slavery.
Conflict During COVID--Combined Voices from all Seven Continents
This article combines voices from all 7 continents as they discuss how COVID has affected the conflict resolution field around them.
Behind the Legal Frustration
This paper focuses on the problems with litigation, the effectiveness of Arbitration in comparison with litigation and concludes by addressing the issue raised in the question.
The Enugu State Multi-Door Courthouse (ESMDC)
The journey taken by the Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse (LMDC) from when it first started till now is a clear indication that there is a buy-in from all stakeholders and disputants that ADR through the LMDC works because of its success story -with access to justice as some literature has revealed.
Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): A Viable Solution to Speed and Efficiency Issues in ADR
Disputes generally are an integral part of human interactions arising from different human transactions
Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19--Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Africa
Arbitral Community Mobilizes to Adapt to the COVID-19 Crisis through Increased Use of Electronic Proceedings
Interview with Richard Salem
This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Richard Salem, a pioneer in the field of mediation and dispute resolution, filmed as part of Mediate.com's ' Views from the Eye of the Storm' Video Series.
Behind the Legal Frustration
This paper focuses on the problems with litigation, the effectiveness of Arbitration in comparison with litigation and concludes by addressing the issue raised in the question relating to the effectiveness of arbitration in comparison to litigation.
Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): The Great Tool in Times of Pandemic
Those of us who have been working for many years, not only in the academic field, but also in a practical way in On Line Dispute Resolution (ODR), that we call on line or electronic, feel that in these times "the future is here ”
Fostering Mediation in the Middle East Construction Industry
Whilst the construction industry worldwide is plagued by disputes, construction disputes in the Middle East have two distinct characteristics.
What Mediators Must Consider as They Work
This article highlights the impact of COVID-19 on face to face mediation as social distancing is encouraged. It also discusses other instances when mediators need to stay away from the mediation process such as when they are physically tired or when they face psychological or mental issues.
Courts Mediating Online with Zoom
It is hard to imagine for many, especially for the baby boomer generation, what a digital court is, because most of us are unfamiliar and resistant to the digital world of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
ODR in Africa: The Emergent Face of Dispute Resolution Post COVID 19
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore what most people in emerging economies particularly in some countries in sub-Africa have never really given a thought to - working from home.
Crisis Communication & Covid-19: Did our politicians test positive for ‘empathy’?
This article is an opinion piece by one reader and examines if our world leaders responded to the COVID-19 crisis with empathy.
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law
This article discusses the facts of divorce as it stands today.
New Horizon for International Commercial Mediation: The Singapore Convention
The fundamental concept of the Convention began in 1958 with the signing of the New York Convention. That concept is the obligation of contracting nation states to give effect to private agreements emerging from alternative dispute resolution.
Have Faith in Another’s Honesty!
In any given mediation, I am often asked whether I think the other party is telling the “truth”, can she be “trusted”?
A Dent in the Universe
What have we learned from the mediators working tirelessly to promote the institutional and cultural changes necessary to implement mediation within their home countries?