NOTE: Over the course of 30+ years I have engaged in mediation and other types of intervention in a wide range of contexts. The items below are, in my opinion, some highlights.
Editor and Publisher of a guide to a traditional Palestinian mediation method.
Working in coordination with the Libyan-American Friendship Associaion, Assidiq Al-Jarani and Daniel Rainey helped coordinate educational and social interactions between American and Libyan groups during the period after the Locherbie plane sabotage when there was no formal diplomatic relationship between the US and Lybia. As a result of our efforts (in the US, Malta, and Maastricht) informal and then formal talks were begun that led to a renewal of diplomatic relations.
From 1990 through 1994, Daniel Rainey worked with Ron Gurley and Larry Slagle (Director of Personnel at the Dept. of Agriculture) to develop and launch the Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program (SESCDP). Initially, fewer than 10% of the SES incumbents in the government were minorities or women. At the program’s conclusion, three years later, minorities and women made up almost 20% of the SES corps.
Beginning in 2001, Daniel Rainey was the mediator for contract negotiations between CSX railroad and the Train Dispatchers Union. This was the first rail contract to be concluded using Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) techniques without the parties applying for traditional mandatory mediation under the National Mediation Board.
Upon invitation, Daniel Rainey was the ADR trainer for the American Airlines managment team and the unions representing American’s ground crews at Heathrow airport in London. (They were not under the US labor laws and were bargaining against a strike deadline.) Training completed, Daniel Rainey was requested to remain for the beginning of bargaining. A deal was reached in one week, strike avoided, and all went to celebrate with a “pint” at the pub near the bargaining site.