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Mediation and Culture: The Example of the ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition
Author(s) -
Bond Greg
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
negotiation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1571-9979
pISSN - 0748-4526
DOI - 10.1111/nejo.12027
Subject(s) - mediation , competition (biology) , negotiation , cultural studies , sociology , political science , social psychology , psychology , law , ecology , biology
The I nternational C ommercial M ediation C ompetition is organized by the I nternational C hamber of C ommerce (ICC) in P aris, which held the event for the eighth time in F ebruary 2013. As the competition has grown, participation has become more and more diverse and thus mediation and negotiation have become more and more cross‐cultural. This led the ICC to invite external research on culture at the competition in F ebruary 2011. In this article, I discuss this student competition, the external research project question, and the culture of the competition. I also identify some of the further cultural issues raised by referring to relevant research on conflict and mediation across cultures, and conclude with some thoughts on how better to conceptualize the field of cross‐cultural mediation in terms of a systems approach.