news
March 2009
Visit by William Ury: Friday 19 June 2009
Core’s Autumn Mediation and Conflict Management
Training Course
Mediation and Planning in Scotland
Multi Party Dialogue: Wednesday 1 April 2009
Mediation and Intellectual Property
Visit by Michael Leathes, Executive Director of the
International Mediation Institute
Mediation and Conflict Management in the Workplace
A Guide to Mediating in Scotland
Visit by William Ury: Friday 19 June 2009
Core is delighted to announce
that acclaimed co-author of Getting to Yes and global leader in
negotiation and conflict resolution, William Ury, is coming to Edinburgh
in June. The key event will be a one day seminar entitled ‘Winning Strategies for Effective Negotiation in Difficult Times’ on
Friday 19 June.
This will be preceded by The
Core Conversation and Dinner on the evening of Thursday 18 June.
Click here for
more information and details of how to register. This is sure to be a unique
occasion, so do sign up soon.
Early
Bird rate for those who register and
pay by 31 March.
Core’s Autumn Mediation
and Conflict Management Training Course
Module 1: 16 - 18 September 2009 and 8 – 9 October 2009
Optional Assessment
Module: 5 – 6 November 2009
Optional Practice Day: 4
November 2009
Early
Bird rate now available for first 10
registrations before 15 May 2009.
Click here to read
more.
Mediation and Planning
in Scotland
We
have now completed our work on the User’s Guide to Mediation in Planning.
Carried out in association with the Scottish Government, the Guide will be launched
at a special event this month at which the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and
Sustainable Growth, John Swinney MSP, will be the key speaker. Our work
in the preparation of the guide and the accompanying report to the Scottish
Government has revealed the extensive possibilities for the use of
mediation in planning from the pre-development stage right through to
appeals.
What
is needed now are some real examples of mediation in planning in Scotland on
which to build experience and confidence in a process which can be a real asset
to a more creative and cost effective approach to the use and development of
land in Scotland.
Multi Party
Dialogue: Wednesday 1 April 2009
As
part of our initiative to use mediation in some of the bigger issues facing our
society, Core is promoting a special event:
The Challenge of
Climate Change: Wind, Water, Fossil or Fission?
5 pm – 8 pm at The Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh
Click
here
for more details and to register.
When this workshop was held
at the ABA conference in New York in 2004, the topic selected was “Dealing
with Terrorists”. At an International Trade Mark Association meeting in
Berlin and at the European Mediation Conference in Belfast last year, those
participating in a similar session chose “Global Warming and Climate Change”.
John Sturrock will again facilitate this session at the forthcoming ABA
conference on dispute resolution in New York in April.
Mediation and
Intellectual Property
Visit by Michael
Leathes, Executive Director of the International Mediation Institute
Michael
addressed two meetings during his February visit. The first of these was
an invited group of specialists in the field of intellectual property.
Click here
to read more.
A
key conclusion was that inserting mediation clauses into contracts would
require people to consider engaging in mediation and help to overcome any fear
of appearing weak by suggesting mediation. Click here to
refer to Core’s example mediation clause.
Michael
also addressed a group of approximately 30 lawyers and other advisers on the
theme of Global Trends in Dispute Resolution. He pointed out that
the world is changing rapidly and that the characteristics of leadership might
now be redefined to include: responsibility, transparency, authenticity,
trustworthiness, certainty, competency, sustainability and frugality.
Michael
Leathes is joined by several other in-house counsel in
a provocative article about the future of the provision of legal services
entitled, ‘A Perfect Storm’. Click here to
read.
Mediation and Conflict
Management in the Workplace
Core
has recently refined its services in light of the significant changes occurring
as a result of the economic downturn and new legislation. In recent
years, Core has been involved as mediator or facilitator in a significant
number of workplace disputes and other differences involving senior employees,
executives and teams within organisations.
There
are inevitably increasing tensions as people face up to the impact of a recession,
and scope for high quality independent mediation and facilitation, together
with excellent training, has never been greater. Click here to
read more about Core’s enhanced service.
Mediation and
Agriculture
Core
and the Agricultural Law Association co-hosted an event at Stirling Management
Centre in February on the topic of ‘Mediation in Agricultural Disputes’.
Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw Bt QC and Jamie Whittle of R & R Urquhart and
a Core Associate set out the range of areas in which mediation can be used to
enhance the management and resolution of disputes in an agricultural
context. The large attendance of land agents, surveyors, lawyers and
others with an interest in agriculture witnessed a demonstration of mediation
in practice, conducted by John Sturrock, involving a landlord and a tenant
farmer with their respective advisors. Suffice to say that many in the
audience thought that the example was very real to life! There was an
enthusiastic response and many left thinking that there is much scope for the
use of mediation in this field.
Petition by Ken Cloke
Ken
Cloke, our guest in December, has launched a petition calling on President
Obama and his new administration to actively promote the use of conflict resolution in
all his efforts to bring about change and to address the urgent economic,
environmental, and health care crises we presently face. Click here to
read more.
Ken Cloke Master Class
We are deeply indebted to Anna
Doyle, Head of Mediation Service
at
Eurocontrol in Brussels and a participant in our
December Master Class for this excellent summary of what Ken shared with us,
entitled A Lesson in Flight (…experiencing a master class
with Ken Cloke).
Click
here
to read.
A Guide to Mediating in
Scotland
The
Scottish Mediation Network, in collaboration with Dundee University Press, is
launching a new book on mediation this month.
Mediation
is developing in many different areas today throughout Scotland. While some of
these may be familiar, others are less well known. For the first time, these
areas are comprehensively brought together in A Guide to Mediating in
Scotland. As well as exploring the differences which occur between
these developments, the book also identifies the key skills and core values in
each and explores the common themes. This book will be invaluable to anyone
either thinking of how mediation may assist or simply wanting to know more.
To
purchase the book click here or
email admin@scottishmediation.org.uk
for an order form.
Core in the Press
Click
here
to read John Sturrock’s article on negotiation in Business 7 and here for
a letter in Holyrood Magazine.
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