3/16 An Analysis of Qatar’s Mediation Law No. 20 of 2021, Cultural Disclaimer As I launch into the analysis of Qatar's new mediation law, I am mindful that my perspective is deeply embedded in a Western, common-law perspective, and further embedded in the "core values" of mediation as spelled out in U.S. state statutes, rules, and ethics codes, as well as model acts developed by national organizations of U.S. mediators. What is Culture? Culture is the cumulative result of experience, values, religion, beliefs, attitudes, meanings, knowledge, social organizations, procedures, timing, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe and material objects and possessions acquired or created by groups of people, in the course of generations, through individual and group effort and interactions. Culture manifests itself in patterns of language, behavior and activities and provides models and norms for acceptable day-to-day interactions and styles of communication. Culture ena...