Mediating Personal And Emotional Disputes

Reading about the possibility of a mediated resolution of a dispute arising out of a mass shooting, reminded me how effective mediation is as a process for finding agreement to disputes which occur in the most heartbreaking and emotional contexts. Just the other day I read of a Chilean court ordering mediation between Church and alleged abuse victim.

And my work at CEDR constantly demonstrates such examples, with cases including:

• NHS mediation in clinical negligence disputes via our NHS Resolutions scheme
• A recent attendee of the CEDR Mediator Skills training programme who is using their newly developed mediator skills to manage conflict between parents and surrogates in surrogacy arrangements that have broken down