A new step in the Serbia/Kosovo story: the UN General Assembly has passed a unanimous resolution whose sense is to open ‘dialogue’ between Belgrade and Pristina supported by the European Union. Note that the BBC can not even get the simplest facts right. Its report says that: The European Union […]
The International Bar Association’s Annual Conference is this year in Vancouver in early October. And I am honoured to be included on their speaker’s list.
Here in the latest Standpoint magazine is an article by Joshua Rozenberg about Mediation and the new, excellent strategic dispute resolution service offered by ADRg Ambassadors. Alas the most interesting sections of the article about ADRg Ambassadors are not included in the online version. So to read them you’ll have […]
Just to say that those readers who have not yet had a quick look at ADRg Ambassadors – a bespoke new senior mediation, consultancy and training panel comprising various former Ambassadors – should do so. Since our launch in January we have attracted some healthy interest, including from quite unexpected […]
The tumultuous launch of ADRg Ambassadors gives way to a requirement to write an article for DIPLOMAT magazine about Diplomats and Mediation. One interesting theme is ‘neutrality’. Is it possible for any international mediator in a dispute or problem to be truly impartial, and does it matter if that is […]
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 […]
I have been back on the mediation trail, this time leading a successful two-hour negotiation between two people who had fallen out over a private business deal. Flushed from that triumph I headed for the ADR Group conference in Oxford where many leading UK mediators gathered to mull over trends […]
Back from training EU officials in Mediation techniques, with an eye on the role of mediation at the international level. One of our role-play examples featured an attempt by an imaginary Head of Mission in an imaginary country trying to mediate between his Deputy and a younger Political Officer over […]
An eruption of peace, or something, in Honduras. The issue will be how far ‘President’ Zelaya, if he is briefly restored to office, can manage to manoeuvre anything other than a polite handover to his successor after the forthcoming elections. If these elections do pass off peacefully, Mr Micheletti can be […]
More on that self-proclaimed independent EU-sponsored Report on the 2008 Georgia conflict. Points of interest from it, as they come: The Mission had no access to intelligence reports: a serious setback, I’d say. Not least since the whole business was launched because of what Georgia + Washington ‘really’ thought Moscow […]
