Alternative Dispute Resolution
Dec. 8, 2012
Trust: making a leap of faith in mediation
Why is cynicism so endemic and trust so painfully lacking in the mediation context?
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a conflict developed in President Harry Truman's cabinet with respect to the manner in which research and development of nuclear weapons should proceed in the future. The essence of the conflict was this: several members of the cabinet, led by Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace, supported the idea advanced by Dr. Robert Oppenheimer (the chief scientist of the Manhattan Project which developed the two atomic bomb...
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