Mediation

Barbara Ann Radnofsky advocates the use of mediation and other interest-based methods of dispute resolution in government, with the goal of reducing partisanship, polarization, and unnecessarily adversarial practices.

Barbara Ann is a trained mediator (AMI Mediator Training, Summer 1991, Dallas, TX; Advanced Mediation Training AMI, November 20, 1993) and arbitrator (AAA Commercial Arbitration Training, Orlando, Florida, October 10, 1998),  and has conducted hundreds of alternative dispute resolutions involving anti-trust, bad faith insurance, commercial, banking, bankruptcy, toxic waste disposal, pipeline explosion, and various personal injury matters.

She was appointed by the Tribunal Arbitral du Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland as Mediator of the Court of Arbitration (April, 2002).

She served as Chairman (2003 - 2004) and Vice Chair of Programming (2002-2003) for the Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel.

Barbara Ann with Judge Frank Evans, the "Father of Mediation" in Texas.

Read Barbara Ann’s discussion on violence in the schools.

For Barbara Ann's mediation teaching activities click here.