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Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators (update – survey)

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The ABA Dispute Resolution Section, AAA and ACR are exploring potential updates to the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators (“Model Standards”) (2005). They invite your input to help identify areas that may need clarification, modernization, or further guidance based on today’s mediation practices. Your responses will remain confidential and will directly inform the review … Continue reading Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators (update – survey) →

Negotiation and Mediation Theory After 30+ Years:  A Practice-Based Framework

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Colleagues recently had a lively discussion on the DRLE listserv about negotiation and mediation theory.  This post summarizes my perspective and includes my posts in that discussion. I hadn’t planned to write the series of posts, but comments in this thread prompted me to summarize my perspective.  Many of the comments raise broad questions about … Continue reading Negotiation and Mediation Theory After 30+ Years:  A Practice-Based Framework →

Will AI Destroy Institutions?

Here’s a debate about whether generative AI threatens the survival of key civic institutions – followed by a conversation with RPS Coach about these issues that may surprise you. Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica M. Silbey wrote How AI Destroys Institutions.  Here’s the abstract. Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone … Continue reading Will AI Destroy Institutions? →

Habermas, AI, and more: post by Andrew Mamo

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From FOI Professor Andrew Mamo: Hiro is pointing us toward a broader set of conversations that directly implicate our field, including but not limited to Gadamer-Habermas, and I agree that these debates should be far better known within the dispute resolution field. The distinction between strategic and communicative action, for example, poses hard questions for … Continue reading Habermas, AI, and more: post by Andrew Mamo →