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A post appeared on mediate.com in August 2018 on sample Mediation Ground Rules. It was written by James Melamed, and it contained 12 rules to ensure an orderly and successful mediation process. I will “cherry pick” 4 of the Melamed “rules” and add a fifth of my own. These rules are basic, civil, and quite […]
August 22, 2018
The title of this post was first used this week, as far as one can determine, by commentator Eugene Robinson. It is a reply to the foolish pronouncement of a Trump attorney who bellowed that “Truth is NOT Truth”. An underlying foundation of mediation process is that truth must prevail. A party must be truthful […]
August 4, 2018
On July 30, 2018, Gerald F. Seib wrote an article for the WSJ on how leaders of the Duluth community had decided to temper the nasty tone of some local political discussions. Nastiness often prevailed when political issues became hotly contested. The leaders developed a nine-point program called “Speak Your Peace: The Civility Project”. As […]
July 26, 2018
On July 25, 2018, the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board wrote about why “fake news” is real. It added the following: “This willingness to believe any old nonsense, if repeated often enough, is called the ‘illusory truth effect,’ wrote Lisa Fazio, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University who led a study three years ago into the […]
September 8, 2018
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