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Back to Basics: Legos and Me
Author(s) -
Creo Robert A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
alternatives to the high cost of litigation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1549-4381
pISSN - 1549-4373
DOI - 10.1002/alt.21565
Subject(s) - compromise , mediation , column (typography) , session (web analytics) , resolution (logic) , psychology , conflict resolution , focus (optics) , sociology , law , computer science , political science , telecommunications , artificial intelligence , world wide web , physics , optics , frame (networking)
Editor's Note : Master Mediator columnist Bob Creo has taken a break in the past two issues of Alternatives from his focus on neuroscience, psychological factors and cognitive biases that affect dispute resolution to revisit his past. He has returned to his earliest columns on mediation room techniques and practice issues—some nearly a decade old—and is reprising and updating them for a “Back to Basics” series. The articles are new to these pages, originally having appeared exclusively on the website of Alternatives' publisher, the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. Last month's column faced “ghostbusting” in mediation—that is, dealing with the specters of “persons with influence over the outcome, but who are not physically present at the mediation session.” The November column covered the concept of satisfactory compromise. This month's column looks at the building blocks of a mediation resolution, literally. Still to come is a back‐to‐basics examination of constructing settlements .