10/16 An Analysis of Qatar’s Mediation Law No. 20 of 2021, Mediator Impartiality : Using the Firestone Grid as an Analytical Tool Mediator impartiality, one of the core values of mediation, gets little specific attention in the Qatar Mediation Law. Instead , the Qatar Mediation law mentions impartiality or independence in very general terms. This oversight will require Qatari leaders in the mediation field to supplement the law with rules and a code of ethics that defines mediator impartiality in a clear and culturally sensitive way. Article 7 governing the register of mediators may contemplate this approach when it provides that the Council will " define[e] the conditions, controls, and procedures of [mediator] registration." Conduct that makes a party believe that the mediator has lost his or her impartiality is the most frequently cited reason for filing a complaint against a mediator in the U.S. states of Virginia and Maine. It appears as the second m...