Making Peace and Making Money (Urška Velikonja)
“The vast majority of people who enter the mediation market drop out within two years. Of those who persist, about ten thousand earn $50,000 or more per year from mediation”
Herbert Smith’s The inside track – how blue-chips are using ADR
There has been a sea-change in the dispute resolution landscape in England and Wales since the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules in 1999. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes, particularlymediation, are no longer “alternative”. They are firmly established in the range of mainstream dispute resolution techniques in addition to the traditional processes of litigation and arbitration.Whilstmany organisations have become both familiar with and sophisticated in using ADR techniques, we wanted to understand just how leadingmultinational organisations were using ADR in 2007
Skill Is Not Enough: Seeking Connectedness and Authority in Mediation (Chris Honeyman & Ors)
Christopher Honeyman was struck by the flagging “marketability” of mainstream professionally trained mediators in the U.S. More and more parties were choosing retired judges and other practitioners who were not classically trained mediators to help them resolve their disputes. Searching for an explanation of this phenomenon, Honeyman found a possible answer in Melbourne, Australia, where he listened with a Western ear to the presentations of coauthors Loretta Kelly and Bee Chen Goh about the importance of connectedness and individual perceptions of authority to the parties in the mediation of indigenous disputes. In this article, the authors present case histories from Australia and Malaysia to illustrate these concepts. They contend the same concepts are behind the shifting of the market for mediation in the United States.
