Dispute Resolution

Why an arbitrator refused to switch hats and mediate — and what it reveals about how legal culture, not contract language, governs a neutral's role in cross-border disputes.

What the Singapore Convention actually changed in international mediation: Turkey's early accession and the cross-border enforceability of mediated settlement agreements.

Dubai Future Foundation's Global 50 report reads less like an innovation guide than a dispute map — and explains the UAE's bid to become the hub where they are resolved.

How intense competition in the China market destabilises distribution, licensing and joint-venture contracts — and the anatomy of the dispute wave that follows.

As climate risk reshapes investment and trade decisions, why an institution's dispute management capacity is becoming a genuine competitive advantage.

What the UN's beyond-GDP report says about mediation statistics — and the difference between what a settlement rate measures and what it cannot.

How a billion-dollar financing that issued no equity actually works — and how structures like it will reshape commercial dispute resolution.

How shifting trade corridors are changing the nature of disputes, and where ISTAC stands in Turkey's bid to become a regional arbitration centre.

Empathy and active listening have been declining since 2019. What the WEF findings mean for the human skills mediation depends on most.

Why Europe's most detailed mediation legislation did not deliver the expected result, and what the Greek experience says to Turkey.

What a DAAB is and why it is central to FIDIC 2017 contracts: the anatomy of a mechanism that prevents disputes rather than resolving them.

After Urgenda and Shell: why courts fall short in climate disputes, and what restorative justice offers instead.

Judge's notes from the 21st ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition: how participants from different legal cultures build a shared language of resolution.

Why managing cultural difference is a strategic necessity when working with Chinese investors: relational trust, social acceptance and the role of mediation.

Climate diplomacy has become a dispute resolution arena. Notes taken while following COP30 in Belém through a mediator's lens, and the fossil fuel debate.

How geopolitical tension, supply-chain fragility and regulatory volatility are redrawing the dispute risk map through 2025 and beyond.

From the parable of Old Ali and the Wooden Bowl to elder mediation: why the real issue in intergenerational conflict is rarely the division of property.

Why disputes in sports clubs begin in the dressing room rather than on the scoreboard, and how sports mediation repairs the relationships behind them.

Is ethics a set of rules or the identity revealed at the moment of decision? On the role of the ethical compass in mediation and leadership.