Arbitration & Mediation

Mediation channel surfing: in a round-up of links, some tasty ideas to snack on

By Diane Levin

From time to time for my non-Twittering readers, I round up the articles and news stories I’ve microblogged about on Twitter. Here’s the latest batch of tasty thought-snacks:

• Georgia court “deregisters” mediator for serious ethical lapses, including violation of confidentiality, thanks to mediator and blogger Chris Annunziata.
• Browsing the disputed web - Firefox extensions to uncover alternative viewpoints via Campus-ADR Weblog.
• A useful collection of video clips for trainers and teachers for lessons about communication, conflict resolution, negotiation, or leadership, thanks to Daniel Horsey.
• Superb PDF download: “The One Minute Manager Prepares for Mediation: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Negotiation Preparation” by Donald R. Philbin, Jr., with a hat tip to Geoff Sharp.
• Food industry’s answer to Big Tobacco - controlling America’s brain to influence food consumption.
• Stressed men but not stressed women more likely to gamble, take risks, according to study.
• Estate planning in a digital age - When you’re dead, how will your loved ones break your passwords?
• If you purchased the original edition of Predictably Irrational, the publisher will email you subsequent new material in PDF.
• For anyone interested in participatory democracy, here’s an outstanding post on John Folk-Williams’s blog Cross Collaborate on success in deliberative democracy
• Honoring collaboration: community-based work and the importance of being integrative, on Neuroanthropology.
• Evidence of gender bias against women…by women? A dramatic study from the theatre world, via Work Matters.
• The legalese hall of shame: a collection of impenetrable legal prose, thanks to Set in Style.
• Even with the familiar, we’re hopeless at noticing change - test yourself with these images of a U.S. dime, on Cognitive Daily.
• Put conflict resolution on United Nations climate change conference agenda, a masterfully written post by Victoria Pynchon.
• Walk a mile in my shoes: understanding empathy through spatial metaphors, via Science Daily.
• Rhythms of conversation - how do different cultures take turns to talk?, on Not Exactly Rocket Science.

Full post as published by Online Guide to Mediation on July 03, 2009 (boomark / email).