MEDIATION PODCASTS

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• Michael McIlwrath of GE Oil & Gas, and current Chair of the IMI Board of Directors, has produced a series of CEDR Award-winning podcasts on International Dispute Negotiation.  Those featuring mediation are linked below.

If you wish to hear all of Michael McIlrath's podcasts in iTunes pleaseclick here or visit the CPR Institute website

• Jane Gunn, a Mediator, Conflict Management Consultant and Speaker working with businesses and business leaders around the world, has a selection of podcasts available on her website. Those featuring mediation are linked below:

To visit the podcast page on Jane's website, click here

• Doug Noll, a Mediator, author, speaker, and lecturer on advanced peacemaking and mediation theory and practice, is also the host of a radio show: The Doug Noll Show

To link to Doug's show or to listen to his archived podcasts, click here

• The National Mediation Conference is a bi-annual gathering of Australia's leading mediators and mediating organisations. Podcasts of sessions from previous conferences are available at the conference website. 

To download the Podcasts, click here

Mediation Podcasts by Jane Gunn

Jack Levin - New York Lawyer and Commercial Mediator, speaking about using mediation skills both in the workplace and at home

Michael McIlwrath Litigation Counsel at GE, speaking about planning for conflicts and disputes in a large organisation

Joanna Kalowski - Mediator, and Mediation Trainer speaking about the Power of Cross-Cultural Communication

Ken Cloke – Mediator and Author, speaking about How We As Mediators Can Help Save the Planet

Mediation Podcasts by Michael McIlwrath

IDN102 - Part 2, William Ury on Negotiating with Difficult People

William Ury returns to discuss negotiating with difficult people.

IDN 87 - Go Sit Under the Mango Tree: Globalization and Mediation

Harvard's Caroline Rees discusses how mediation fits into corporate social responsibility efforts.

IDN 82 - NBC Universal--Part 2, Mediating Disputes in the Film and Television Industries

In Part 2 of a discussion on domestic and international conflict resolution in the entertainment field, you’ll find out why NBC Universal mediates most of its disputes. Susan E. Weiner, NBC’s New York-based executive vice president and deputy general counsel, and David L. Burg, of Universal City, Calif., who is senior vice president for litigation, explains why the company uses and enforces a multistep contract clause requiring negotiation and mediation before the television network and film studio takes the party on the other side of the table to court.

IDN 81 - NBC Universal - Disputes in the International Entertainment Industries

Disputes at a television network attract a great deal attention, and need a great deal of conflict management skills. Not to mention cutting-edge tools. Two top lawyers at NBC Universal Inc. talk discovery, arbitration, mediation, and the nature of business disputes in the first of two parts. The guests for the next two weeks are New York-based Susan Weiner, who is executive vice president and deputy general counsel, and David L. Burg, of Universal City, Calif., who is senior vice president for litigation.

IDN 65 - Part II: Turning Mediation Into a Global Profession, Why IMI?

IDN 64 - Part I: Turning Mediation Into a Global Profession, Why IMI?

The IMI accrediting program is designed to fill in gaps for businesses wanting to avoid litigation abroad, but which don’t have enough information about neutrals who can do the work. The theory is that improved information on neutrals will increase access, and the use of mediation. And the result will be less wasteful litigation.

IDN 53 - So You Want to Be an Effective Mediator? Ben Picker Return

One of the nation’s top law firm ADR practitioners, Bennett G. Picker, of Philadelphia's Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, returns to talk about what it takes to be a great mediator.

IDN 52 - Becoming Your Own 'Amiable Compositeur': Arb-Med with Mercedes Tarrazon

Mercedes Tarrazon explains a practice that she has adapted in a variety of commercial conflict resolution settings around the world.

IDN 50 - ADR Through a Corporate Looking Glass

Alexander J. Oddy, Partner of the London-based law firm Herbert Smith, talks about Inside Track, a comprehensive commercial conflict resolution report.

IDN 48- Mediation in Belgium, Romania and Spain

Helena De Backer, name partner in Brussels’ De Backer & Bastin, and founder and current president of the Brussels Business Mediation Center; Constantin-Adi Gavrila is director of the Craiova Mediation Center, and president of the Mediation Centers Union in Romania; and Mercedes Tarrazon is an independent mediator and arbitrator in Barcelona.

IDN 45 - Back to the Future in Conflict Resolution

IDN 26 - Evolution of Dispute Resolution