Asia-Pacific Mediation Forum
5th Asia-Pacific Mediation Forum Event
Asia-Pacific Mediation Leadership Summit: ‘From Talk to Action’,
Bangkok, 24–26 November 2010
The APMF Executive Committee is pleased to announce that one of our members who lives and works in Bangkok, Martine Miller, is working with the APMF Executive and Steering Committees and an Organising Committee in Bangkok to convene an exciting new 3-day event. Please note that this event will replace the 5th APMF Conference previously scheduled to be held in Delhi, India in November this year, which has been cancelled for reasons beyond our control.
We are inviting relevant organisations and associations in the region to express interest in collaborating with us to organise this event and we will also be sending out separate letters of invitation to various organisations very soon. We are also looking for interested sponsors for the summit.
Please read our proposal for the Asia-Pacific Mediation Leadership
Summit. We welcome your feedback.
10th National Mediation Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 7–9 September 2010
The theme for Australia's next National Mediation Conference is 'Celebrating the past – embracing the present – creating the future'. Early bird registration closes 1 July 2010.
This national conference will be held in the award-winning Adelaide Convention Centre overlooking the beautiful Torrens River and Adelaide Oval in the heart of downtown Adelaide. We are promoting three specialised themes for the conference reflected in our international keynote speakers.
Justice Albie Sachs from South Africa will lead the process architecture stream. This stream draws parallels between the effects that the physical architecture of a building has on its occupants with the effect the process architecture of the mediation model, dispute system or court-annexed ADR process has on parties. He will reflect on his involvement in the design of the physical architecture of the South African Constitutional Court as well as the design of the process architecture of that court and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa.
We are introducing for the first time an international mediation peacemaking stream led by Alain Lempereur from the ESSEC Business School in Paris. He will speak from his practical experience working in Africa and with the European Union and United Nations. He helped develop reconciliation and leadership programs in Burundi and in D.R. Congo, where he served as a senior facilitator.
The third stream explores practice issues that look beyond mediation models and the toolbox of skills. Michael Lang from the United States will draw on his 30 years of practice as a mediator and mediation trainer to explore deeper practice and 'use of self' issues.
Other features include an indigenous mediation stream;
a family law stream; a Q & A forum; and half-day pre-conference
workshops on 6 September.
Conference website
Association for Conflict Resolution (US)
Non-US residents who are members of the APMF are eligible to join the Association for Conflict Resolution as e-members, at the reduced rate of US$40. E-membership includes access to all online benefits, a monthly update and access to archived issues of Conflict Resolution Quarterly. ACR e-membership form (PDF 74 kb).
National accreditation standards for mediators in Australia
Australia now has national accreditation standards for mediators. For more information visit the National Mediation Conference website.
How to join the Asia-Pacific Mediation Forum
Membership is open to anybody. To join, please
complete the APMF membership form
(Word 51 kb).
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Peace, Conflict and Mediation,
Hawke Research Institute, at the
University of South Australia.
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