Arbitration & Mediation

A dispute resolution quote of note

By Diane Levin

Here’s something for all of us, regardless of political persuasion, to think about as America debates the big issues:

…when any government measure, no matter how carefully crafted or beneficial, is subject to scorn; when any efforts to help people in need are attacked as un-American; when facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom, and we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter ? that at that point we don’t merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges. We lose something essential about ourselves.

From Obama’s September 8, 2009,  speech on health care.

Full post as published by Online Guide to Mediation on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).