The Mediator's Tale

The Cedr Story of Better Conflicts
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5265-1583-4
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Written to celebrate the 30th anniversary of CEDR's emergence as the world's leading independent disputes consultancy, The Mediator's Tale: The CEDR Story of Better Conflicts captures the experience of two leading internationally renowned mediators - and married couple - Eileen Carroll and Karl Mackie. Sharing their personal and professional insights into how we can achieve better conflict management in our professional and personal lives, they highlight key insights into how mediation delivers results, and lessons for conflicts generally.

The book:

Tells the story of how a young lawyer and a leading academic 'had the courage and sheer guts' necessary to create disruptive change and persuade the legal profession and its clients to embrace mediation
Provides advisers and mediators with in-depth explanations for getting results from negotiation and independent intervention
Shows how to build trust and make emotional connections while building momentum for settlement
Highlights the role of women as conflict resolvers and as early pioneers in conflict resolution, and the links between conflict and diversity - 'What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity'
Explores the reasons interventions fail and how to avoid failure
Illuminates the international development of mediation and its reach into justice systems, human rights, investor-state disputes and international arbitration
Outlines leadership skills that will put you in the top 1% of people able to deal with conflict.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Mediation online service.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carroll Qc (Hon), Eileen

Carroll, KC (Hon), Eileen

MacKie Cbe, Karl

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Zivilprozessrecht Streitschlichtung, Mediation
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Start with You - Conflict Passions and a Passion for Conflict
Chapter 1: Conflict: it's personal

Chapter 2: A passion for conflict - it's professional

Chapter 3: 'Dancing with the gorilla' - reshaping the litigation dance floor

Chapter 4: CEDR joins the dance floor

Chapter 5: Changing the conflict dance

Part 2: The magic of mediation
Chapter 6: 'When gorillas come to tea' - mediation in practice

Chapter 7: The making of a professional mediator

Chapter 8: What they don't teach you at mediation school

Chapter 9: Seven reasons mediations fail, and how to avoid them

Part 3: The bigger picture - mediation 3.0
Chapter 10: Not a remote chance - getting on the virtual bus in a pandemic

Chapter 11: Gorillas go global - international disputing

Chapter 12: Diversity and women's role as conflict resolvers - a tribute to Mary Parker Follett

Chapter 13: Leaders as mediators, and more

Chapter 14: Harnessing the power of an independent organisation

Chapter 15: The Mediator in Me - saving the world one conversation at a time

Commentary on the future - James South, Chief Executive, CEDR

Appendices
Appendix 1: Top Tips for Better Conflicts

Appendix 2: 27 Variations of Mediation!

Appendix 3: Alternatives to Mediation

Appendix 4: Reading suggestions

Über Autor(innen)

MacKie Cbe, Karl
Dr Karl Mackie CBE is one of the first and most influential commercial mediators in the UK and Europe. In the course of his career he has mediated and facilitated over a thousand high value disputes and some of the most complex civil and commercial cases to go through the English legal system. He is also responsible for training many other leading mediators.

Karl began his working life as a business psychologist, before working for many years in university continuing education as a negotiation and business strategy consultant. During this time, he qualified as a barrister specialising in dispute resolution and employment law. He became the first and only CEO of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) in 1990, helping to create its international standing.

Karl is probably the best known commercial mediator in the UK and is frequently interviewed on television and radio about disputes in the public domain. He has edited or authored several texts on mediation; most notably International Mediation - the Art of Business Diplomacy, a guide to the effective resolution of international business disputes, which he co-authored with Eileen Carroll. It has been described as '. a landmark guide to practitioners in international mediation and is likely to form a reference guide to mediation procedures.'

In 2010 Karl became the only mediator ever to be given an honour by the state, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), for services to mediation, both developing and delivering it.

Carroll, KC (Hon), Eileen
Eileen Carroll KC

Eileen Carroll was one of the first commercial mediators in Europe and is today one of the most senior and highly regarded mediators in the UK and internationally. Over the last 20 years she has built a unique and first-class mediation practice and is recognised as a pioneer of mediation techniques in the U.K. In 2013 Eileen was awarded Queen's Counsel status in recognition of her outstanding work in the field (the first time this citation has been given).

Her career began in international chemical and industrial consultancy before moving into Law in 1981. She became a partner in a major London firm in 1987 and then spent several years working in San Francisco. Her experience of mediation in the US lead to her co-founding CEDR upon her return to the UK in 1989. She later became the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution's (CEDR) Deputy Chief Executive in 1996.

Throughout her career Eileen has been invited to give addresses and speak at many international events as well as making guest appearances on various national radio programmes. She is the author of several articles on ADR as well as contributing chapters to Butterworth's Mediators on Mediation. Her most notable publication is a guide to the effective resolution of international business disputes entitled International Mediation - the Art of Business Diplomacy which she co-authored with Dr Karl Mackie. Praise for International Mediation includes '.first rate. the kind of groundwork publication that is necessary to the institutionalisation of mediation and other interest-based dispute resolution into professional and business cultures.'

Eileen Carroll KC (Hon) is Principal Mediator and Co-Founder of CEDR. Recognised as one of the pioneers of mediation techniques in the UK and with over 25 years' experience as a practising mediator, she is one of the most senior and highly regarded mediators in the country and internationally. In 2013 Eileen was awarded Queen's Counsel (Honoris Causa) for her mediation practice and role in founding CEDR.

Dr Karl Mackie CBE is Founder President of CEDR. Karl is one of the best-known names in commercial mediation and brings both legal and psychology expertise to his practice in mediation, independent inquiries and organisational consultancy. He became CEDR's first Chief Executive in 1990, helping create its international standing. In 2010 Karl was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to mediation.