Perspective
May 26, 2012
Mission Creep: the expanding mediation process
In the early days of mediation, if the case didn't settle by the time the clock ran out, the mediation was over. By Robert Mann of ADR Services
"Mission Creep" is a term used by the military to describe the phenomenon where a mission that starts with well-defined limits expands beyond those limits to encompass tasks for which the mission was not originally intended. A frequently cited example would be the U.S. involvement in Iraq, which started as an avowed effort to locate weapons of mass destruction and, some people would argue, morphed into peace-keeping, democracy building an...
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