We compare three common dispute resolution processes — negotiation, mediation, and arbitration — in the framework of Crawford and Sobel (1982). Under negotiation, the two parties engage in (possibly arbitrarily long) face-to-face cheap talk. Under mediation, the parties communicate with a neutral third party who makes a non-binding recommendation. Under arbitration, the two parties commit to co...

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)1 is a classification of methods used to efficiently, cost-effectively, and equitably resolve disputes2 without resorting to litigation.3 “ADR is premised upon the intention that by providing disputing parties with a process that is confidential, voluntary, adaptable to the needs and interests of the parties, and within party control, a more satisfying, durab...

The split of Sudan into two sovereign states, Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan, in July 20 II did not come as a surprise to many interested parties to the Sudanese conflict. Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan have intensified their dispute over an oil rich border region of Abyei . This artic le looks at the history of another border dispute between Nigeria and Cameroun over Bakassi peni...

In PODC 2003, Micali presented a fair electronic exchange protocol for contract signing with an invisible trusted party [17]. The protocol was filed as a US patent No 5666420 in 1997 [16]. In the protocol, two mutually distrusted parties exchange their commitments to a contract in a fair way such that either each of them can obtain the other’s commitment, or neither of them does. The protocol i...

This paper deals with a simple tool that we have developed to support the parties in online dispute resolution (ODR). The tool helps the participants to bring forward the statements of the dispute in a structured and concise way. After each added statement the online tool shows the structured layout of the statements. As an example, the tool has been applied on a domain name dispute. For AI & L...

The analysis of a dispute can focus on either interests, rights, or power. Commentators often frame the conflict over conscience in clinical practice as a dispute between a patient's right to legally available medical treatment and a clinician's right to refuse to provide interventions the clinician finds morally objectionable. Multiple sources of unresolvable moral disagreement make resolution...

How to sign an electronic contract online between two parties (say Alice and Bob) in a fair manner is an interesting problem, and has been studied for a long time. Optimistic Fair Exchange (OFE) is an efficient solution to this problem, in which a semi-trusted third party named arbitrator is called in to resolve a dispute if there is one during an exchange between Alice and Bob. Recently, sever...

one of the topics that today has attracted attention of civil proceeding lawyers is a contractual approach to the commencement of litigation. in this approach, the litigants may by mutual agreement refer their case to a specific branch of court. in this paper, we discuss the commencement of civil proceedings by the agreement of litigants and how far it is possible for the parties to select the ...

How to sign an electronic contract online between two parties (say Alice and Bob) in a fair manner is an interesting problem, and has been studied for a long time. Optimistic Fair Exchange (OFE) is an efficient solution to this problem, in which a semi-trusted third party named arbitrator is called in to resolve a dispute if there is one during an exchange between Alice and Bob. Recently, sever...

Expert agents, such as lawyers, play a prominent role in conflict resolution, yet little is known about how they affect outcomes. We construct a model that permits us to estimate the influence of agents and test whether the parties in a dispute face prisoner’s dilemma incentives. Using eighteen years of final-offer arbitration data from New Jersey, we find the parties do significantly better wh...