Conflict occurs everywhere except in the cemetery. Everyone experiences conflict except the dead – Assegid Habtewold. This drives home the assertion that conflicts are innate to human beings. In the bustling marketplace of ideas, numerous factors are responsible for how disputes are perceived and resolved, and culture is inevitably a player. Pause! Take some time to imagine a mediator’s or arbitrator’s table where participants hail from the far and distinct ends of the earth. What would be the expectations of the Nigerian Igbo trader? Or the ideology of the Kenyan elder? Or the approach taken by the businessman from China? Questions like these and the answers thereof are what determine an effective Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process.