Courts compel people into arbitration by enforcing arbitration clauses in contracts. Parties to the contract may argue that they didn’t know about the clause, or that circumstances have changed, but typically a contract provision calling for arbitration will be enforced. Even if the validity of the contract itself is in dispute, courts reason that parties […]

There was another apology in the news a couple weeks ago: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized on March 22 to Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a 2010 raid on a Turkish flotilla that killed 8 Turks. Any apology is news, but of even more interest to peacemakers is the fact that this was […]

Let there be peace on earth—and let it begin with me. I attended a Unity church service yesterday, where we closed the service by standing in a circle holding hands and singing that song. I’d like to close—or maybe open—every Peacemaker seminar with that. We all decry the lack of “peace on earth” but we […]