I wanted to share some thinking I had about a meeting I went to yesterday. It was with a group of about 40 other mediators, and there was a guest speaker who gave a talk on mediation at the World Bank. This bank has branches here in the US & also around the world. One of the things the speaker was highlighting was the differences in the US-based World Bank mediations (and the successes of these mediations) in contrast to those outside the US in selected cultures. Mediation has become more accepted and more successful in their US-based offices. The perception of mediation differs from culture to culture.
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