California has adopted a law authorizing the California State Bar to certify dispute resolution providers. The Alternative Dispute Resolution Certification Program requires neutrals to comply with ethics and disclosure standards, and to provide a complaint procedure, in order to be certified. The author of the bill, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Tom Umberg, says this law […]

No church wants to face what Crabapple First Baptist Church faced last week: news that one of its members had murdered eight people on a shooting spree. The church needed to determine its response, and communicate it not only to its own congregation but to the community and the world. Not easy to do while […]

New research has shown that framing your argument from your opponent’s “moral perspective” is much more likely to be persuasive. Professors Rob Willard, from Stanford, and Matthew Feinberg at University of Toronto, conducted a set of six studies involving over one thousand people, to determine how re-framing based on moral perspective could be persuasive in political […]