[WikiEN-l] Root and Branch - it's the only way.

Fri Mar 12 18:39:22 UTC 2004

I think these remarks are insightful.  It is true that as it is
shaping up, the arbitration committee doesn't really do arbitration as
people commonly understand that word.  And people have come to view
mediation as something to do for a few days, more or less meaningless.

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:

> 
> 
> Let's review where the Mediation/Arbitration system currently stands 
> in practice:
> 
> *The genuine custom for mediation is somewhere between zero and zip.
> 
> 
>     *Mediation is requested as a method of trolling. So far only
>     once successfully.
>     
>     *Mediation is requested and once it starts, one or both of the
>     disputants will insist on behaving as if it were arbitration.
>     (This has happened more than once, but which cases, I will not
>     disclose)
> 
> 
> *Once the Arbitration Committee set itself up, it immediately dropped
> even the pretense at arbitration and constituted itself as a panel of
> grievance hearings with independent power of adjudication.
> 
> 
> Where do we go from here?
> 
> Well, the first thing to acknowledge is that this how it was always 
> going to go, no matter what we might have wished. Reality is a harsh
> mistress.
> 
> The only logical thing to do is to rename the Arbitration Committee 
> into something more close to what their actual role is, and rename
> the Mediation Committee into the Arbitration Committee, and give it
> live ammunition. What do I mean with live ammunition? I honestly
> don't know! Anything the current "socalled" Arbitration Committee can
> bear to part with...
> 
> J-V Heiskanen (Formerly Cimon Avaro on a pogostick - RIP) 

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