ADR Tidbits
The Chinese symbols for "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same.
The best way to vanquish an enemy forever is to turn him into a friend. -- Anonymous
The ancient Greek world was divided into two in 446-45 BC when Athens and Sparta agreed to the Thirty Year's Peace which required both sides to submit future grievances to binding arbitration. This appears to be the first time war was to be avoided and a lasting peace through a dispute resolution process.
Professor Archibald Cox was a labor arbitrator and a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators at the time of his appointment as Special Prosecutor in the Watergate case. The National Academy of Arbitrators bestowed Lifetime Honorary Membership status on Professor Cox in 1988.
Following his Presidency, Richard Nixon was selected to arbitrate a collective bargaining impasse between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Umpires' Association.
In the 1930s the Mafia criminal enterprise established a special Commission to mediate disputes between crime families. This served organized crime very well for many decades.
