About

Welcome to the World Directory of ADR Blogs, currently tracking 240 blogs from 31 countries at ADRblogs.com.

I’m Diane Levin, a mediator, trainer, consultant, and attorney based in the U.S. in the Greater Boston area. I’m also a blogger who is dedicated to raising awareness among dispute resolution professionals, scholars, students, and advocates of the value of blogging.

Blogging, after all, is an ideal medium for sharing ideas, transmitting knowledge, engaging in dialogue, and connecting with others in our field.

I launched my own blog, Mediation Channel, in January of 2005. At that time, there were only a handful of us blogging about alternative dispute resolution. Shortly after my blog’s maiden voyage, I conducted my first census of ADR blogs and found fewer than 20.

Looking at an allied field — the law — I noticed that legal blogs (also known as “blawgs”) had grown so numerous that several directories had sprung up to track them — Blawg.org and Blawg Republic. In addition, a weekly review of the best in legal blogging organized by Blawg Review highlighted law blogger talents.

Inspired by these and similar efforts to popularize and publicize law blogs, I decided it was time to create a directory of ADR blogs, and thus this project was born, launched in June 2006.

If you blog about ADR, negotiation, consensus building, or conflict resolution, or if you know someone who does, let me know. I’ll add you to the directory. (Please check out these simple guidelines first.)

Since its launch, this site has been a commercial-free zone. Learn how you can support ADRblogs.com or help me spread the word.

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