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Can We Talk?, Don Peters Apr 2008

Can We Talk?, Don Peters

Don Peters

CAN WE TALK: OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO MEDIATING PRIVATE TRANSBORDER COMMERCIAL DISPUTES IN THE AMERICAS Don Peters

This article examines cognitive and cultural barriers creating the comparatively infrequent use of mediation to resolve private, transborder commercial disputes in the Americas. It begins by analyzing the challenges of transborder commercial litigation. It then develops and supports the claim that international arbitration, the most frequently used transborder commercial dispute resolution method , suffers from many of litigation’s disadvantages, including excessive expense and delay, sacrificing outcome control, damaging or ending rather than preserving and improving commercial relationships, and using legalistic, rights based perspectives which …