Libya Crisis: Chavez to mediate?

The BBC reports that Libya and the Arab League are considering a mediation offer by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. This is probably just a showboating exercise by Chavez, but it does demonstrate that mediation can often go where others can’t....

Edinburgh mediates trams

The BBC reports that both sides in the Edinburgh tram dispute are meeting to try to break the deadlock that has brought work on the £545m project to a virtual standstill. A contractual dispute between the tram company Tie and contractors Bilfinger Berger has pushed...