[WikiEN-l] ArbCom - too attached to 'equal treatment'?

Tue Mar 8 07:32:40 UTC 2005

Brian M wrote:

>>That is a role that mediation should play.
>>
>>-- mav
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>Why separate "mediation" from "arbitration"?   Why such complicated
>dispute resolution procedures?    It is almost as if we want to make
>it hard and complicated to resolve disputes, something you can only do
>if you are determined.   What is the logic behind that?
>
>Wouldn't mediation work better if the parties knew that the mediator
>seeking a resolution to a dispute/behaviour problem had the ready
>means to impose a sanction on any parties deemed not to be
>cooperating?     Iron fist in the velvet glove.   At present, in the
>case of real a behaviour problem (as opposed to a good-faith
>difference of opinion) mediation is a hoop people have to jump through
>to get to arbitration, and anyway it is broken.
>  
>
When a mediator needs to use an iron fist he has proved himself 
incompetent as a mediator, and should be fired.

Ec