On Tuesday 11 November 2025 Carl presented a 70 minute Zoom webinar for members of the SCMA entitled – ‘Mediation of Cultural Heritage Disputes.’
Link to the YouTube video on LinkedIn – https://lnkd.in/e8MmMyZV
There are also links to the video on the ‘How I can help’ page at www.carlislam.co.uk – scroll down to find, and at the top of www.artandcivilization.tv.
Alternatively, you can search in YouTube by using the words – ‘Carl Islam Mediation of Cultural Heritage Disputes.’
Carl is currently writing a new book entitled – ‘Mediation of Cultural Heritage Disputes’, see the ‘Mediation of Cultural Heritage Disputes’ page at www.carlislam.co.uk.
As Carl stated in the introduction to his Talk – ‘The Participants’ Paradigms in these disputes are shaped by multiple Dynamic Forces. Therefore, Cultural Heritage Disputes are ‘Multi- Dimensional’. Because these disputes are International, they are also ’Inter-Cultural.’
In the second half of the Talk, Carl discusses ‘Parameters in mediation’ as being ‘Dimensions of the dispute’, i.e. ‘Parameters’ = ‘Dimensions’.
Carl has identified seven Dimensions in Cultural Heritage Disputes, which he will develop in the book.
These are:
· ‘The Human Dimension.’
· ‘The Existential Dimension.’
· ‘The Object Dimension’.
· ‘The Legal Dimension.’
· ‘The Ethical Dimension’.
· ‘The Political Dimension’.
· ‘The Decision-Making Dimension.’
These Dimensions are all dynamic and inter-connected.
The dynamic interplay that takes place in Mediation between each of these Dimensions demonstrates that Mediation = ‘A World of Possibility!’
As Carl demonstrates in his concluding remarks by reference to Egypt’s claim for the return of the ‘Rosetta Stone’ – what it is possible to achieve in Mediation is only limited by the skills and imagination of the Mediator, Participants and their Mediation Advocates.
