{"id":1025,"date":"2012-02-05T10:10:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2015-04-27T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:36:26","slug":"this-week-in-adr-january-29-february-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/2012\/02\/this-week-in-adr-january-29-february-5\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in ADR:  January 29-February 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that we&#8217;re already into February 2012. \u00a0But, as Colum McCann would say, the great world spins on, and with it comes ADR news.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over at the New York Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/05\/business\/an-investment-wipeout-that-didnt-have-to-happen.html?hp\">Gretchen Morgenson opines<\/a> on why a $1.38 million arbitration award still didn&#8217;t satisfy one bitter investor.<\/li>\n<li>Any of us who haven&#8217;t blocked middle school out of our memories entirely will recall that conflicts during those years can be just as contentious as any on Wall Street. \u00a0Luckily, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-peer-mediate-20120205,0,4237935.story\">peer mediation programs<\/a> can offer hope.<\/li>\n<li>Mediation also showed up halfway across the world, as <a href=\"http:\/\/english.cri.cn\/6966\/2012\/02\/05\/2743s679175.htm\">peacemaking teams<\/a> attempt to rid Yemeni towns of Al-Qaeda militants.<\/li>\n<li>One ex-CIA spy is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2012\/0201\/Ex-CIA-spy-History-of-failed-negotiations-shows-Iran-won-t-deal\">not optimistic<\/a>\u00a0that negotiation will result in a deal with Iran over nuclear weapons.<\/li>\n<li>For the brave physicians of Doctors Without Borders, however, negotiation sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/news\/africa\/decapua-msf-negotiations-3feb12-138634034.html\">provides their only chance <\/a>of carrying out their important work in conflict zones.<\/li>\n<li>But on a lighter note, perhaps we all can take a few tips from the <a href=\"http:\/\/marquee.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/02\/03\/30-rock-lemon-jack-liz-and-the-art-of-negotiation\/\">persuasive genius of Liz Lemon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>See you next week!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that we&#8217;re already into February 2012.  But, as Colum McCann would say, the great world spins on, and with it comes ADR news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lead"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peZSkE-gx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hnlr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}