A group of former senior British diplomats (self included) have come together to set up a new top-end international strategic advice and dispute resolution/dispute management service: ADRg Ambassadors.
Here is the website, just launched.
Check it out, including the excellent and impressive list of policy areas and languages the team covers.
The idea is to bring to bear the unusual specialist skills of senior diplomats – all trained by leading UK mediation experts ADR Group in professional mediation techniques – on high-level disputes and problems.
Mediation training (as we have all found out the hard way) gives diplomats very different professional skills to those normally found in diplomacy – you have to step back from busily trying to solve other people’s problems, and instead engage on a ‘deeper’ level to help the parties themselves explore their own options.
That said, combining world-calls diplomatic skills with world-class mediation training produces a team of uniquely qualified people raring to take on new challenges. As far as we know, this is the first such team of its kind ‘in history’
So if you have a significant problem or a dispute (real or looming) needing some subtle discreet specialist attention, or if you are looking for creative ways to break a deadlock and reach a deal, you now know what to do.