In this episode, my guests were two women from the Parents Circle who both lost their sons due to political conflict between Israel and Palestine. Robi Damelin is the Spokesperson and Director of International Relations at the Parents Circle Families Forum and Layla Alsheikh is a member of the Parents Circle Family Forum. The Parents Circle is comprised of more than 600 Palestinian and Israeli bereaved families who believe in non-violence and reconciliation. The episode begins with Robi reading ...
Sep 11, 2022•30 min
My guest Barry O’Mahoney worked with the Irish government on managing the Facilitators and Notetakers on Citizens’ Assemblies. He explains why parliament established a Citizen Assembly in Ireland. He also talks about the benefits of a Citizens Assembly i.e creating an atmosphere so people can speak openly in a safe environment and have an informed discussion. We learn how useful a Citizen Assembly is in addressing major issues like same-sex marriage and abortion (in Ireland)and how this delibera...
Jul 22, 2022•19 min
My guest Bob Bordone is an internationally recognised negotiator and the founder of the Negotiation and Mediation Clinic at Harvard Law School. He started his own YouTube channel in September 2021 where he discusses negotiation principles in many spheres in life. He explains how he decided to focus on public policy issues in negotiation and how we would all have better outcomes if we had better conversations. He talks about why he started his YouTube channel and his ideas and initiatives about u...
Jun 21, 2022•21 min
In this episode, I present two guests whose countries are in conflict. Tatyana is a Ukrainian pioneer of family mediation and has stayed in Ukraine. Sergey Ponomarev is an award-winning Russian photographer and has left Russia. This episode includes readings of two letters written by Tatyana. The letters are about how Tatyana’s life has been affected by conflict and how she uses her mediation knowledge and skills in coping. Following the readings is an interview between me and Sergey about the c...
May 18, 2022•36 min
My guest Jo Berry is Founder of ‘Building Bridges for Peace’ and works to resolve conflict around the world. Sixteen years after her father was killed by an IRA bomb, Jo met with the man responsible after he was released from prison and left the IRA. Their initial meeting led Jo Berry and Patrick Magee to speak on over three hundred occasions on a shared platform around the world. Jo explains what the conditions that make an encounter with someone who killed your dad possible and what the reacti...
Apr 30, 2022•25 min
My guest Cinnie Noble is a pioneer of conflict management coaching. Cinnie explains what one-to-one conflict coaching/conflict management coaching is and why it is needed to help people make the shift from reaction to reflection; to response and resilience. This then allows them to become a better version of themselves in how they manage conflict before, during and after conflict. Cinnie gives examples of where her conflict coaching has worked well. She also explains that a lot of new managers i...
Apr 02, 2022•18 min
Figen Murray, Manchester Arena bombalamasında oğlu Martyn Hett'i kaybetti. Bundan çok kısa bir süre sonra katili bağışladı. Kendisi ile bağışlamak ne demek; niye bağışlamak istedi; bu karara nasıl tepkiler aldı ve teröre karşı neler yaptığını konuştuk. Murray çalışmalarıyla hem ödül aldı hem de İngiltere'de bir kanun değişikliğinin yolunu açtı.
Feb 25, 2022•18 min
My guest Ailbhe Griffith is an advocate for restorative justice in cases of serious violence, including sexual violence, as well as an Ambassador for Restorative Justice International (RJI). She explains how the restorative justice mediation process changed her life for the better and why the criminal justice system failed her. She also talks about how she needed to confront the man who sexually assaulted her and how she prepared to meet him. She goes on to explain how women can support each oth...
Jan 28, 2022•21 min
Devletin ceza yargılaması yapmasının toplumlarda yarattığı sonuçlar neler? Suç mağdurları açısından ne tür sorunlar bulunuyor? Failler bakımından ne gibi sorunlar var? Onarıcı adalet mekanizmaları buna karşın ne sağlayabilir? Bir çok ülkede nasıl ortaya çıktı? Türkiye’de ceza davalarındaki uzlaştırma niye onarıcı adaletle ilgili değil? Bosna’da toplumlar arasındaki iyileşmenin nasıl sağlanabilir?
Dec 30, 2021•25 min
Geçiş dönemi adaleti nedir; nasıl ortaya çıkmıştır; yargı varken böyle bir adalet arayışı niye lazımdır; farklı ülke örnekleri nelerdir; geçiş dönemi adaleti Türkiye’de nasıl uygulanabilir; hangi konulara öncelik vermek gerekir?
Nov 25, 2021•27 min
Dönüşüm koçluğu nedir; kişinin kendi değerlerini fark etmesinin, dinlemesinin ihtilaf çözümü alanında ona nasıl bir faydası olabilir; özellikle ilişkilerde anda kalmak nedir gibi konuları ele aldık.
Oct 18, 2021•29 min
Kampüs veya öğrenci ombudsluğu, ABD ve Avrupa'da giderek daha fazla görülmeye başladı. Peki bu nedir; niye ortaya çıktı? Türkiye'nin ilk üniversite ombudsu olan Altınbaş Üniversitesi ombudsu Gizem Güray, öğrenciler ombudsluğa hangi sorunlar için başvuruyor ve Türkiye’de bu kurumun geleceği nedir gibi soruları cevapladı.
Sep 30, 2021•19 min
My guest is a retired member of the New York City Police Department and is a trainer to police officers from many countries. He has had experience in many high profile cases including hostage cases. He explains what hostage negotiation is, why this alternative style of policing (compared with tactical policing, which is often considered the final option when all else fails) is needed to resolve crisis incidents and why it has become so prevalent in police forces since 1973. Jack explains the fou...
Jul 26, 2021•25 min
Türkiye’de aile arabuluculuğu sık sık gündeme gelmesine rağmen konuyu çocukların yüksek yararı veya refahı üstünden konuşmuyoruz. Florida'da çocuk korumada arabuluculuktan nasıl faydalanılıyor? Hizmet planı nedir? Çocuk koruma alanında arabuluculuk yapmak için hukuk okumak veya vatandaşlık niye gerekli değil? Arabuluculuk etik kurallarının amacı nedir?
Jun 18, 2021•22 min
My guest Marina Cantacuzino is the Founder of The Forgiveness Project, an award-winning journalist, peace activist and podcaster of ‘The F Word Podcast’. Marina talks about how her charity ‘The Forgiveness Project’ was established in response to the war in Iraq and how it evolved. She also describes how to cope with pain and trauma by exploring forgiveness, how healing works, some of the work she has done with inmates in prisons and what led her to do her podcast ‘the F Word’. She emphasises the...
May 18, 2021•25 min
My guest Tom Kosakowski is Health Sciences Ombuds at the University of Southern California. Tom explains how ombuds programs were initiated in the US in the late 1960’s and how they have evolved and progressed over time by serving all stakeholders. He also talks about how the changing university student profile is contributing to the adoption of these programs and why ombuds programs are needed. We also address how medical schools are unique settings for ombuds’ services and what the future of o...
Apr 15, 2021•23 min
My guest is Colin Rule- CEO and President of Mediate.com, Mediator Trainer and Consultant. Colin explains how online dispute resolution systems (ODR) first came about in the late 90’s when e-commerce took off and his experiences working on disputes and building the resolution centre at eBay. With all these millions of cases increasing each year across the e-commerce industry, Colin maintains that the best way to resolve a dispute is to prevent it in the first place. He talks about his interest i...
Mar 11, 2021•28 min
Maria Volpe is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Dispute Resolution Program and the Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, at the City University of New York. Since she established one of the largest list servers in the world about conflict resolution after the 9/11 events in NYC, I ask her how she did that and what was her goal behind launching it. She talks about what conflict resolvers can do in response to disasters and tragedies and what dispute resolution interventi...
Feb 04, 2021•24 min
My guest Giuseppe DePalo was the Ombudsperson for United Nations Funds and Programmes. He describes what the UN’s ombuds office does to prevent and resolve work-related disputes (i.e sexual harassment) and why this is needed outside the court system. He talks about the importance of considering mediation to resolve conflict and describes his unique role as an ombuds in detail. He talks about this drive towards informal justice mechanisms spreading into various organisations and expanding into mo...
Jan 10, 2021•39 min
My guest John Sturrock is an internationally recognized commercial mediator and a “thought leader” in the area of mediation. He is also the Founder and CEO of Core Solutions advocating better conversations and better outcomes. John talks about how principles of mediation should be more commonly used in public services and contrasts the airline industry’s no-fault approach in the 1970’s with the health sector where the pressure on staff deserves recognition. He goes on to talk about why the socia...
Dec 10, 2020•28 min
My guest Sheila Purcell is an expert and pioneer in court ADR (alternative dispute resolution) programs in California. She explains her professional background in community mediation and dispute resolution for low and middle-income people, the advantages and disadvantages of a bottom-up style mediation program and how she started her successful court ADR program in California. She goes on to describe how she fell into working in dispute system design, what it entails and how she likes designing ...
Nov 09, 2020•30 min
My guest Susan Podziba is a public policy mediator and wrote a book called 'Civic Fusion: Mediating Polarized Public Disputes'. Susan explains what public policy mediation is and why it is needed to reason and resolve very complex and polarized issues. She talks about the differences in attitude towards public policy mediation in Europe compared to the U.S i.e some countries in Northern Europe are conflict adverse and consensual. She talks about how types of negotiation work i.e single text nego...
Oct 17, 2020•43 min
Barış çalışmaları nedir; çatışmalarda niye diplomasi dışı araçlar da lazımdır ve bunlar nelerdir; sivil toplumun barışa katkısı nedir; yoğun şiddet yaşanmış çatışmalarda travmaların etkisi nasıl aşılır; uluslararası yapılarda giderek daha çok görülen kurum içi ihtilaf çözme mekanizmaları niye gereklidir?
Sep 25, 2020•42 min
Mediator, trainer and activist, my guest Dr. David Silvera has been involved in developing mediation as an alternative form of dispute resolution in Israel since 1998. He explains what transformative mediation is, how it originated in America and how it utilises pragmatic, transformative and narrative theories to advance the mediation and decide on a solution. He emphasises the first step of transformative mediation as ‘trying to better the relationship, only after that you can deal with the con...
Sep 03, 2020•29 min
My guest Martha Clarke is a workplace and civil commercial mediator, trainer and coach in the UK and abroad. She explains what workplace mediation is and how it enables people to be heard and listened to without having to go to court. Describing it as an early intervention mechanism, she explains how it differs from the more formal and legal way of resolving workplace disputes in the past. She touches on the sources of workplace disputes and examples of actual disputes i.e racism, sexism, bullyi...
Jul 31, 2020•27 min
Çatışmanın kişiler ve devletler arasındaki sonuçları yanında toplumsal etkileri de olur. Bu bölümde alanın yeni podcast'i olan DEMOS'u, çatışma alanına getirdiği bu bakış üstünden konuştuk. DEMOS'tan Güley Bor ve Yasin Sunca, geçiş dönemi adaleti, hafıza gibi konuları içeren demokrasi ve barış çalışmaları alanından, yaptıkları araştırmalar ve kendilerinin konuya toplumsal cinsiyet temelli yaklaşımlarından bahsetti. Konuklar, aynı zamanda niye podcast'i seçtiklerini ve ekiplerini de anlattı. Anla...
Jul 13, 2020•25 min
Dr Paolo Michele Patochhi is one of the founding partners of Patocchi and Marzolini, a leading law firm specialising in international arbitration in Geneva. He shares his perspectives as an arbitrator and counsel on the differences between acting as an arbitrator and a dispute-handling professional as well as the benefits and disadvantages of med-arb (a hybrid two-stage ADR process. He talks about the Singapore and New York Conventions, his teaching at Bilkent University in Ankara and his contri...
Jun 29, 2020•39 min
İstanbul'un tahkim merkezi olması için mevzuat, vize kolaylığı ve lojistik avantajlar yanında başka ne yapılmalı? İSTAC'ın uluslararası tahkim kurumlarından farkları/benzerlikleri nedir? Kadın hakem sayısını artırmak için taraflar ve kurumlar ne yapabilir?
Jun 15, 2020•32 min
Üç programlık tahkim serisinin başında tahkim nedir; hangi uyuşmazlıklarda daha çok işe yarar ile başladık. Tahkime iş dünyasının, yargının, kamu sektörünün bakışı nasıl değişti? Türkiyeli iş insanlarının riske, ihtilafa, yatırıma bakışı nasıl değişti? Kurumsallaşma, yabancı yatırım, küreselleşmenin etkileri bakımından ihtilaf çözümüne nasıl bakıyor?
Jun 02, 2020•36 min
Evde kapalı kalmanın, cezaevinde kapalı kalmakla benzerliği nedir? Kapalı kalındığında rutinler niye önemlidir? Kadınlarla erkekler, evde kapalılıktan aynı şekilde mi etkileniyor? Kapalılık ilişkileri nasıl etkiliyor?
May 18, 2020•33 min
