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This page of the site can help you contact organisations in the dispute resolution field in Australia and internationally. The organisations may be service providers, advisory organisations, associations for practitioners, educational or training organisations, special interest groups, etc. 

We would appreciate advice to ausdispute@unisa.edu.au about others that should be included and alterations to those on this page.

For information about newsletters and electronic lists, go to our Publications page.

If you are specifically looking for a person or organisation to undertake work for you, and you want details such as qualifications, experience and other details about them, search our Directory on this website.

Dispute resolution organisations in Australia

(National organisations first, then in alphabetical order of state and territory)

National

Asia-Pacific Mediation Forum - currently at www.unisa.edu.au/cmrg/apmf - soon to move to www.apmf.org.au

Australian Commercial Disputes Centre - www.acdcltd.com.au

Family Court of Australia - www.familycourt.gov.au/html/mediation.html
Information about mediation services, including topics "How Mediation Helps You?","Mediation is it Right For You?", "How to Get Started?"

Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia - www.instarb.com.au

Lawyers Engaged in Alternative Dispute Resolution (LEADR) - www.leadr.com.au

National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council (NADRAC) especially their work on development of standards for ADR and issues of fairness and justice in ADR.

Australian National Native Title Tribunal - www.nntt.gov.au

Relationships Australia - www.relationships.com.au - National and State organisations; including information about mediation, training and development, branch locations, and links to other related web sites.

Transformative Justice Australia - www.tja.com.au - An organisation providing training, workshops and community conference facilitation.

Australian Capital Territory

Conflict Resolution Service

New South Wales

Australian Dispute Resolution Association (ADRA)

Centre for Mediation Studies, University of Western Sydney - fassweb.macarthur.uws.edu.au/cms/default.htm

Lawlink NSW - www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au

Law Society of NSW Legal Help: information on "What Is Mediation?" - www.lawsocnsw.asn.au/legalhelp/answers/mediation/

NSW Farm Debt Mediation Act - www.agric.nsw.gov.au/general/acts/farmdebt.htm

Queensland

Alternative Dispute Resolution Association of Queensland Inc. (ADRAQ)

Bond University, Dispute Resolution Centre

South Australia

South Australian Dispute Resolution Association Inc. (SADRA)

Indigenous Online Network (Aboriginal Research Institute of UniSA) at www.ion.unisa.edu.au

Law Society of SA - Mediation services - www.lssa.asn.au/profession/services_for_the_profession.htm

Tasmania

Positive Solutions

Victoria

Victorian Association for Alternative Dispute Resolution  (VADR)

Peer Support Foundation Victoria Ltd -  www.peersupport.com.au - includes Peaceable Schools: Mediation Training for Primary and Secondary School teachers who train students as mediators

Western Australia

The Western Australian Dispute Resolution Association was founded in 1988 for the promotion of peaceful conflict and dispute resolution in Western Australia. WADRA is a non-profit body composed of member organisations representing dispute resolution educators, practitioners and supporters. It conducts seminars, lobbies government, and recommends accredited practitioners for appointment to the Supreme Court of Western Australia panel of mediators.

Dispute resolution organisations in other countries

We wish to gratefully acknowledge Louise Rosemann, President of ADRA for the following some of which is drawn from an article of hers published in Mediation News, July 1999 and The Alternative Newsletter: A Resource Newsletter on Dispute Resolution, March 1999, James B Boskey (ed.), Seton Hall Law School, Newark. Online at www.mediate.com/tan

A good overall summary can also be found at: www.mediate.com/articles/boskey.cfm

Listings appear in this order:

Asia & Pacific | Canada | Europe | UK | USA | Africa | International 

Asia and Pacific

  • Conflict and Development website, Indonesia, www.conflictanddevelopment.org - resources on conflicts in Indonesia, with case studies, methodologies, and other papers.
  • Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, www.hkiac.org
  • NZ Centre for Conflict Resolution, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand at www.vuw.ac.nz/nzccr/

Canada

Europe

  • The European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation - www.euconflict.org
    This site includes a directory of organisations and institutions working on conflict prevention and management.

United Kingdom

United States of America

Africa

  • The Goedgedacht Forum for Social Reflection was founded at the end of the apartheid era to promote reconciliation and to help develop a humane, peaceful and democratic society in South Africa. It organizes regular debates, and summarizes these on its website.

International

  • International ADR site - www.internationaladr.com/ab.htm.
    This includes detailed information on recent publications, upcoming conferences, rules set from various locations and a range of other information for those with an interest in ADR in the international setting.
  • The International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), an interdisciplinary international academic association  and sponsor of the International Journal of Conflict Management.
  • The World Mediation Forum (WMF) held its biannual conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina in May 2003. More details at www.mediate.com/world
  • For those interested in training in the UN, NGO and Academic sectors you can visit HATI, the Humanitarian Assistance Training Inventory on Relief Web at www.reliefweb.int/training
  • The New York University School of Law has numerous links to national arbitration laws and is also available at www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/country.html

Mailing lists, discussion lists, and newsletters

  • Ausdispute's own email list is AUSDISPUTE-L. How to subscribe.
  • Arbitrators may be interested to subscribe to international lists such as INT-LAW (email to int-law@listhost.ciesin.org stating ‘subscribe’ in the message). They will cross-reference to other sites.
  • The Dispute Resolution Centre of Bond University in Queensland produces a newsletter, which you can read on its website or subscribe to by email.
  • CMDNET-L is an electronic list sponsored by the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management. It addresses information of interest to the dispute resolution field. For example it regularly lists the contents of the International Journal of Conflict Management and the International Journal of Organizational Analysis.
  • A complementary list useful for practitioners and students (and allegedly more practically focussed on the discussion of conflict issues) is the Conflict at Work List "a forum for discussion of all aspects of conflict in the workplace"). You can join by emailing to workcon-subscribe@egroups.com

Search

No luck? You can search through these directories:

Social Science Information Gateway: Alternate Dispute Resolution

Yahoo: Government > Law > Alternative Dispute Resolution

Open Directory: Society > Law > Organizations > Alternative Dispute Resolution

Google Directory: "Alternative Dispute Resolution"

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We welcome your comments or questions.  This page updated on 28 Nov 2006
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