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Roger Fisher, a pioneer in the field of international law and negotiation and the co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, died on August 25, 2012. A professor at Harvard Law...
June 2012 IMI is pleased to announce that two new Qualifying Assessment Programs (QAPs) have been approved by the Independent Standards Commission to qualify mediators for IMI Certification: The Mediators Institute...
Dispute Resolution Mules – article by Michael Leathes
The Inter-Cultural Taskforce of the IMI Independent Standards Commission (ISC), has completed its development work on Criteria for the IMI Inter-Cultural Competency Certification of Mediators. This follows a series of in-depth meetings and trials spanning more...
The International Mediation Institute has appointed Deborah Masucci as a full member of the IMI Board. Deborah is Vice President of Dispute Resolution in the Litigation Management Division of Chartis...
The International Mediation Institute has appointed Diana Wallis as a full member of the IMI Board with effect from 11th April 2012. For five years until January 2012, Diana Wallis...
By Ute A. Joas Quinn. Reprinted with permission of the authors and the Association of Corporate Counsel as it originally appeared: Ute A. Joas Quinn, “Lawyers as a Catalyst for...
Jan Eijsbouts Hans Peter Frick Bengt Gustafson Marina Kaldina Wolf von Kumberg Michael Leathes Deborah Masucci Erik B. Pfeiffer Philip Ray Roland Schroeder Steve Weatherley R. Bruce Whitney The future...
We are pleased to announce that the Qualifying Assessment Programs (QAPs) of: The International Institute of Conflict Engagement and Resolution (IICER) (Hong Kong) andMediation International (Spain) have been approved to...
The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature was Edith Wharton in 1921, for her novel An Age of Innocence. Addressing what is, and is not, classic, Wharton wrote: A classic...
Mediator Competency is like Truth, Beauty and Contact Lenses… Why the fifth mechanism to assure users about mediator quality really works Michael LeathesDirector – International Mediation Institute truth–beauty—contact-lenses…–article-by-michael-leathes-
The sudden death was announced in Australia on April 17, 2011 of Miryana Nešić, a leading international mediation educator, trainer, skills assessor, author, thinker and practitioner. Miryana was part Serbian, part Australian, and...
