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Sep. 12, 2025

Breaking bread breaks the ice

Mediator Harris Weinberg likes to put out the fire rather than fan flames

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Breaking bread breaks the ice

Law School: American University College of Law

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Neutral Harris E. Weinberg has been working to resolve disputes for more than three decades, but the pandemic forced him to alter what had been a longstanding, core component of his mediations.

"History, literature, the Bible are full of stories of competing parties coming to resolution breaking bread together," Weinberg said. "So, for all 35 years I've been doing this, it's been my tradition to try to humanize the parties at the outset of the me... (continued)

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