Kenneth Cloke and the Revd Ian Paisley MP are among the speakers at the annual MATA Tony Curtis debate on 2nd December.

Article in the Institute of Directors newsletter by Core mediator Hugh Donald

Talk by Sarah Blake on her own personal reflections as a cross-cultural mediator, entitled “Cross Cultural Mediation & Conflict Management: A Bridge Between"

John Sturrock QC was given the award for Mediator of the Year 2009 at the recent Law Awards of Scotland 2009.

Report on the September meeting of the International Academy of Mediators

John Sturrock’s address to the Civil Mediation Council National Conference in London in May 2009

Feature in Scotsman supplement (back page) on “Scotland Ten Years On” conference.

Mediation business was brisk throughout this summer and our mediators have been engaged nearly every week since the spring.

John Sturrock was the keynote speaker at both the launch in London in early October of the RICS Mediation Panel and at a conference arranged by Planning Aid in Edinburgh.

We continue to benefit from the enormous success of William Ury’s visit to Edinburgh in June.

Mediators Beyond Borders is the only dispute resolution organisation with non-observer status at the vital summit talks on climate change in Copenhagen in December

The Church of Scotland is organising a major conference in November on the theme of Conflict, Reconciliation and Peace and finding 'A Place for Hope'.