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Published on Tuesday, 06 May 2008 19:00 | | 
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Dr Karl Mackie, head of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution
(CEDR) in the UK, considers how the lessons learnt in mediating commercial and civil justice disputes might be applied to political and diplomatic conflicts .
I'd like to give you a short overview as to how mediation has developed in the last ten to fifteen years, and some thoughts as to the transferability to the political environment. Really what I want to talk about, or summarise, are three what I call remarkable strands to the commercial mediation story.
Published on Monday, 05 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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The severity of today's world food crisis resembles that of the early 1970s. But the role of the financial sector and of global climate change are key differences, says Paul Rogers.
Published on Monday, 05 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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The Holy Grail of physics is the attempt to reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity. Are we getting there?
It seems like the most obvious physical fact: the universe has four dimensions - three spanning space and one ticking away time. But the ultimate theory of gravity should explain why the universe is four-dimensional and how those dimensions arose, say researchers trying to unify the theories of quantum mechanics and relativity.
Published on Sunday, 04 May 2008 19:00 | |
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A Message from John Cleese to the citizens of the United States of America
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately (you should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary).
Published on Saturday, 03 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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Global warming is not just a theory to us - what happens in Britain affects us in the north.
By Aqqaluk Lynge, leader of Greenland’s Inuit population
You may say that the expansion of London Stansted airport will play only a small part in increasing climate change, but everyone can say that about almost everything they do. It is an excuse for doing nothing. The result of that attitude would be catastrophic.
Published on Friday, 02 May 2008 19:00 | | |
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Eighty-year-old Fred from Whitstable shares his secret
Ever since I was a schoolboy of thirteen, whenever I’m feeling a bit down in the dumps I read William Cowper’s poem 'The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk'.
Published on Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:00 | | |
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Alongside mother's ruin, what about model's ruin? 80s icon Paula Hamilton has had a long battle with the bottle.
Model Paula Hamilton epitomised youthful beauty for me as a teen in the late 80s, says Clea Myers. Her image was summed up in the VW Golf ad: who needs a man, money, mink or indeed clothes, when you still have keys to the car? But underneath the so-called glamour, glitz and natural assets Hamilton was struggling with alcoholism, just like thousands of women in the UK today.