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7 Keys: Leadership—Adopt The Edinburgh Declaration
Back in May 2018, I had the privilege to host and chair a really uplifting and wonderfully diverse conference in my home city, Edinburgh, Scotland, under the auspices of the ... Read More
7 Keys: Leadership—The Youth Shall Lead Us. Develop a Generation of Peacemakers Through Peer Mediation Programs
Aloysius Goh[i], Sean Lim[ii], Samantha Lek[iii] & Megan Tay[iv] Many peer mediation programmes (PMPs) set out to teach youth conflict management. Yet, having offered one such PMP annually since 2010, ... Read More
7 Keys: Leadership—Establish strong, collaborative, mediative leadership
The following text is based on written exchanges with four leaders in the field of mediation: Kenneth Cloke [1], Joan Goldsmith [2], Rosemary Howell [3] & Alan Limbury [4] Compiled ... Read More
7 Keys: Imagine
“In order to change an existing imagined order, we must first believe in an alternative imagined order”Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Chapter 6) This work is ... Read More
Tony Nguyen on Vietnam and the Singapore Convention, and UNCITRAL mediation webinar now available
This week has seen some excellent webinars, including Tony Nguyen's presentation on Vietnam and the Singapore Convention on Mediation on Wednesday, and an UNCITRAL WGIII session on mediation and its ... Read More
Harvard Investor-State Mediation Report
IMI was a delegate at the 2019 ISDS Mediation Colloquium at Harvard University last December, convened by Wolf von Kumberg, IDR Managing Director, former IMI Board Chair and current IMI ... Read More
IMI Online Mediation Specialisation is here!
Today we are delighted to announce that it is now possible to have your skills as an online mediator recognised, via IMI Online Mediation Specialisation. Being an IMI Online Mediator ... Read More
The Impact and Lessons of the COVID-19 Crisis as Regards the Efficiency of Justice and the Functioning of the Judiciary—a View from the Mediator’s Lens
The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (“CEPEJ”) held an ad hoc virtual plenary meeting on 10 June regarding the impact and lessons of the COVID-19 crisis as regards ... Read More
New Certified Mediator Training Program: Equilibrium (Italy)
Equilibrium have had their training program approved as an IMI Certified Mediator Training Program operating in Italy, in Italian and in English. EQUILIBRIUM is a new mediation centre registered with ... Read More
Leadership changes – IMI Board and Investor-State Taskforce
Pierrick LeGoff steps in as Deborah Masucci departs from her role as IMI Board Chair After joining the IMI Board in 2012 and overseeing its activities as Board Co-Chair for ... Read More
COVID-19 and Mediation of Investor-State disputes: A way forward
Host states vulnerable to claims by foreign companies for obstructing business and investment with new public health regulations that aim to 'flatten the curve' on Covid-19 and protect community wellbeing ... Read More
Co-mediation: East and West
Last Friday, IMI Certified Mediator Jonathan Lux and Lee Wai-Pong gave a thoughtful seminar on the benefits and uses of co-mediation, particularly in intercultural contexts. The video can be viewed ... Read More
