Publication Type
Magazine Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2006
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Mediation, globalization, technology
Discipline
Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
Research Areas
Dispute Resolution
Publication
ADR Bulletin: The Monthly Newsletter on Dispute Resolution
Volume
8
Issue
9
First Page
169
Last Page
174
ISSN
1440-4540
Publisher
Bond University
Citation
ALEXANDER, Nadja.
Mediators without borders: How technology is leading the charge to globalised dispute resolution. (2006). ADR Bulletin: The Monthly Newsletter on Dispute Resolution. 8, (9), 169-174.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1888
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http://epublications.bond.edu.au/adr/vol8/iss9/1/