Last week I participated in an online meeting for ODR Africa, discussing the issue of non-commercial, non-judicial use of ODR, and the use of the Universal Disclosure Protocol for Mediation. Starting this Friday, I’ll be at SMU in Dallas with a class considering the elements of international dispute resolution.
Today I (finally) sent to the publisher the manuscript for the book that should come out later this summer. Julia and I were able to have lunch with the publisher when we were in The Netherlands last month, which added to my guilt about being a few months late getting the manuscript to the editors. I feel much lighter without Eleven’s generous and very pleasantly handled deadline hanging over my head.
The Standards and Ethical Principles produced by an international working group headed by Leah Wing and myself are now available in their latest form on https://icodr.org/standards/ and https://odr.info/ethics-and-odr/
They will be translated and made available immediately in Afrikaans, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Czech, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.
June 1 – ICODR/NCTDR Ethics Webinar
June 1 – Unified Law Commission Meeting
June 30 – ODR Africa presentation on UDPM
July – SMU International Dispute Resolution class
July 21 – 1st edition of the International Negotiation and Mediation Summer School, Porto School of Law – Universidade Católica Portuguesa and ICFML
My presentations on ethics and the Universal Disclosure Protocol for Mediation went well, and Julia and I enjoyed Dublin, as we always have. It was good to see old friends face-to-face again.
I will be doing several online dispute resolution presentations in the near future.
Coming up this month are three sessions related to dispute resolution and peacebuilding, domestically and internationally.
Jan. 13 – “Peacebuilding in Turkey and its Region: From Theory to Practice.” I will participate in an international focus group organized by HasNa on peacebuilding strategies.
Jan. 29 – I will record three sessions with Instant Mediations: “Mediation and the Communication Model,” “Are Mediators Neutral?,” and “Dialogue and Critical Race Theory.”
Jan. Forward – I will be an observer at the Study Committee on the U.N. Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, hosted by the legal community in Hawaii.
