Mediators without borders: How technology is leading the charge to globalised dispute resolution

• Main Author: ALEXANDER, Nadja
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Mediation; globalization; technology; Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1888; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3840/viewcontent/MediatorsWithoutBorders_2006_ADRB.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Mediation has made it to Hollywood. The opening scene of the romantic comedy The Wedding Crashers (2005) features a hilarious attempt at divorce mediation. The mediation scene does not demonstrate any mediation skills to be emulated and the film itself, apart from the opening scene, has nothing to do with mediation. Nevertheless one cannot ignore the power of the borderless dream machine called Hollywood. The Hollywood film industry does more than export films and fantasies around the world; it is a driving force in the globalisation of the themes with which it deals. When mediation becomes one of those themes — albeit fleetingly — it is on its way to becoming a globalised concept.