EMA’s first EMpower grant recipient
Edwards Mediation Academy is pleased to announce its first EMpower grant recipient: African Peace Partners. Founded in 2013, African Peace Partners is a US-based non profit organization committed to supporting the Ihumure Peace Association in Rwanda. African Peace Partners provides training and financial resources to local mediators to support their pioneering work in healing post-genocide […]
The Demise of Mediation
This past September I sent the following letter to Barbara Gaal, of the California Law Revision Commission, arguing against the commissions’ attempt to make broad changes to the confidentiality protection currently afforded statements made in mediation. The commission continued its public hearing in LA this past week as it seeks further comment on this important […]
The Business of ADR Is Changing
Those of us who have been in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for the past 25 years have seen it grow from an industry in modest infancy to thriving adulthood. In the beginning, we grappled with a business model of franchise or franchisee. Mediators were challenged by potential conflicts of interest and were constantly in danger […]