So in March members of the Mississippi River Collaborative, an environmental group, filed a lawsuit designed to force all those involved to think about waystosolvetheproblem.
Look for this idea to be roundly debated as the government scrambles to find waystosolvethe national debt problem and maintain our national highway system.
As I explain in my book, Success as a Mediator for Dummies, one of the best waysto instill a sense of hope and safety is to treat the mediation as a collaborative effort tosolve a problem that typically arises between well-meaning people rather than a contest over which person was right and which was wrong.