The Mediation Window: An Arbitration Process Measure to Facilitate Settlement

Spring 2020

Eighty percent of users of arbitration at a conference held in 2014 with 150 delegates from over 20 countries that spanned the globe voiced their desire to have arbitration institutions and tribunals explore in the first meeting what other forms of dispute resolution may be appropriate to resolve the case. Over two-thirds of the users at that conference desired a cooling off period during the arbitration proceeding to make a good faith attempt to settle using a mediator.