BACKGROUND Publications on Libya's HIV epidemic mostly examined the victims of the tragic nosocomial HIV outbreak in the 1990s and the related dispute about the detention of foreign medical workers. The dispute resolution in 2003 included an agreement with the European Union on humanitarian cooperation and the development of Libya's first National HIV Strategy. As part of this we conducted Liby...

This paper o¤ers an explanation of rationally incomplete contracts where incompleteness refers to unforeseen contingencies. Agents enter a relationship with two-sided moral hazard in which a commitment to discard parts of the joint resources may be ex ante e¢cient. This happens through costly legal dispute which arises when contract terms are missing for the undesirable outcomes. We show that a...

Negotiation support systems can provide useful advice and allow disputants to more understand their goals and perform the trade-offs necessary to arrive at acceptable solutions. Whilst the Middle East conflict is a complex multi-party dispute, it might prove useful to examine it from the point of view of interest-based negotiation. Asset Divider is an interest based negotiation support system d...

Buying products online results in a new type of trade which the traditional legal systems are not ready to deal with. Besides that, the increase in B2C relations led to a growing number of consumer claims and many of these are not getting a satisfactory response. New approaches that do not include traditional litigation are needed, having in consideration not only the slowness of the judicial s...

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is now widely used around the world to deal with disputes and conflicts as well as agreement-making and planning. Forms of ADR initially developed in many countries often supported thirdparty decision-making and therefore tended to be more advisory or decisional and less facilitative (for example, arbitral forms of ADR were introduced in many jurisdictions b...

This paper investigates whether information about generosity or fairness can be useful in reducing dispute costs and enhancing bargaining efficiency. Subjects were first screened using a dictator game, with the allocations chosen used to separate participants into two types. Mutually anonymous pairs of subjects then bargained, with a dispute cost structure imposed. Sorting with identification r...

The question this paper addresses is how can IT support the resolution of disputes through arbitration and mediation. The first and second parts will examine the benefits of Online Dispute Resolution, some of the pitfalls it may present and how these can be avoided. The third part will then look at one of the more formidable obstaclesthe issue of security of communications. The fourth part will...