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The Best People For The Worst Places (11/17/08)
Richard Barron From the end of World War II through the end of the 20th Century approximately 3.3 million people were killed in intrastate conflicts and over 16.2 million were killed in intrastate civil wars! Most people read those numbers, shake their heads, and move on to the next item. A very few people stop and decide that they must devote their lives to modify this proclivity of our species to kill each other on an incomprehensible scale for generally indefensible reasons.
An Unprecedented Mediation In Poland (10/20/08)
Anna M. Wróbel A few days ago the Polish media were savouring the news that the court had appointed a “professional mediator” in a lawsuit between Janusz Kaczmarek, former Minister of the Interior and Administration versus Jaroslaw Kaczynski former Prime Minister, now the chairman of the political party Law and Justice (PiS). Kaczmarek sued Kaczynski (civil case on infringement of personal goods) after being called „a sleeping agent” (communist agent, I presume). Such a statement is an insult in Poland.
Martti Ahtisaari Wins The 2008 Nobel Peace Prize (10/14/08)
Jeffrey Krivis, Mariam Zadeh Finland’s ex-president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his long career of peace mediation work including a 2005 accord between Indonesia and rebels in its Aceh province and his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East.
Litigios colectivos de trabajo en Polonia y los métodos para resolverlos (10/12/08)
Anna M. Wróbel En la República Popular de Polonia los sindicatos estaban controlados por las autoridades. Los sindicatos libres emergentes eran ilegales en el sistema legal vigente, y no será hasta 1980 cuando tras numerosas huelgas laborales las autoridades concedieron legalizar a unos sindicatos.
Armed Conflict and Sexual Assault (10/06/08)
Victoria Pynchon Women, who hold civil society together in the course of armed conflict, are rarely at the table when peace is being negotiated. As this lengthy piece asserts, we cannot ignore the sexual assaults that continue after "peace" has been achieved.
Lee Hamilton Receives Peacemaker Award from ACR (10/05/08)
Lee H. Hamilton, director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and the director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University, has been awarded the Association for Conflict Resolution’s (ACR) Peacemaker Award.
Russian Peacemaker Receives ACR International Leadership Award (10/01/08)
In recognition of his leadership promoting creative processes that help people across the globe find peaceful solutions to conflicts, Shamil Fattakhov from Kazan, Russia, received the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) International Development Committee 2008 Outstanding Leadership Award.
Fortalecimiento de la justicia laboral (9/22/08)
Ángela del Carmen Torres de Alberto Fortalecer es hacer fuerte, esto como es sinónimo de eficiente, el sistema; en el caso particular nuestro significa hacer cierta y eficiente y por tal efectiva la Justicia Laboral, dando cumplimiento sustantivo y procedimental a los principios contenidos en el CAPITULO II Derechos Sociales SECCION SEGUNDA de la Constitución de la Republica de El Salvador, Trabajo y Seguridad Social, por medio de la justa aplicación de las disposiciones del Código de Trabajo y de otros instrumentos legales sean estos de creación Legislativa o Ejecutiva y de aquellos de Derecho Internacional.
Mediators on a Mission (9/09/08)
Anne Parys Two Pittsburgh attorneys use their skills as mediators to help Liberian refugees and former child soldiers.
Negotiating Armed Conflict (8/11/08)
Victoria Pynchon Thanks to the Daily Kos for citing us to A Possible Mediation/Peace Proposal for Georgian Conflict from Mirror on America.Here are the first four suggestions, click on the highlighted article for the full discussion.Efforts Should Focus on the Following:
1. Establishing a ceasefire to allow for the treatment & evacuation of the wounded and to establish a safe humanitarian corridor for civilians to evacuate. Establish access for Red Cross & other NGO’s.
2. Get all military...
La construcción de la paz com proyecto pedagógico (8/06/08)
Alba Aiello de Almeida Un ejemplo vivo de la aplicación de esta propuesta es el trabajo pedagógico que se desarrolla en el Colegio San Luis Gonzaga de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, en el cual se trabaja con estas pautas, obteniéndose resultados muy positivos.
The World is Looking to Obama — and America (7/16/08)
Anna Spain Despite all the media coverage of the national election campaign, most Americans probably don't realize how captivated foreigners are by Barack Obama, let alone understand why.
To Talk Or Not To Talk With The Enemy, That Is The Question (6/09/08)
Noa Zanolli President Bush and his secretary of state, Senators McCain, Clinton and Obama, and President Carter as well, have been embroiled in a debate about the level-headedness of talking to the enemy. The outcome of this debate will be decisive for the two remaining presidential candidates.
Invitación a nuestros colegas y lectores para publicar (6/08/08)
Dena Marshall Hemos cumplido casi un año de Mediate.com/español y con mucha apreciación les agradecimos a todos nuestros prolíficos autores que nos habían proveído la fuerte base del proyecto. Ahora seguimos buscando artículos para seguir el crecimiento para adelante.
Appeasement and Diplomacy: When There is a Tempest in a Teapot, Keep Your Eye on the Teapot! (5/27/08)
Peter Adler George Bush recently visited Israel on the occasion of its 60th birthday and, in a speech to the Knesset, put forward thinly veiled criticisms of Barack Obama suggesting that his willingness to negotiate with Iran and Syria is the “false comfort of appeasement.” Out on the campaign trail, John McCain chimed right in. “The President is exactly right.” Various Democrats instantly fired back. Joe Bidden called the president’s comments “bullshit.” Hillary Clinton (rising to Obama’s defense) said Bush and McCain failed to understand the distinction between appeasement and diplomacy. Well, what is the difference between appeasement and diplomacy?
Thoughts on Mediation, Barack Obama, and Our Political Future (5/27/08)
Kenneth Cloke The emergence of Barack Obama as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, and thus for the Presidency of the United States, presents us with unprecedented opportunities to influence global dispute resolution strategies and shift the prevailing paradigm of adversarial politics and diplomacy.
Video clips from Belfast 2008 European Mediation Conference (5/26/08)
Geoff Sharp Peace building – John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding, on three ways think about peace building.Women, gender and mediation in peacemaking – Antonia Potter, author of We the Women: why conflict mediation is not just a job for men, why women should contribute to resolution of armed conflict at the highest levels.[both these take a while to download]
(5/21/08)
Keith Seat
After many years of effort, a Mediation Directive for cross-border civil and commercial disputes was approved by the European Parliament on April 23, 2008. The new Directive (i) requires member states to encourage training of mediators and development of codes of conduct and other quality control measures for mediation services, (ii) gives all judges the right to invite parties to mediate, (iii) requires member states to provide judgment-like status for mediated agreements, (iv) requires mediation confidentiality and protects mediators from compulsion to give evidence, and (v) ensures that statutes of limitations and prescription periods will be suspended during mediation. Member states have three years to implement the Directive for most issues, and may chose to apply the Directive to internal as well as cross-border disputes.
European Parliament (Brussels) (April 23, 2008)
The Power of Mediation (5/19/08)
Geoff Sharp Wednesday, 14 May 2008 - Former UK Foreign Secretary Douglas - now Lord - Hurd on the power of mediation in political and diplomatic conflicts.
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