• Description:  

3-day intensive course on January 24 to 26, 2017 providing lawyers, mediators and other professionals interested in professional development focused on mediation skills development as an area of dispute resolution to enhance their knowledge, understanding and skills with a group of their peers taught by experts in the field of international ADR, most notably members of the SCCA and AAA/ICDR International Panel of Trainers and Mediators.

This highly-regarded 3-day course is specifically designed to provide a comprehensive immersion in the essential skills and knowledge required of all mediators.  Completing the course provides the foundational hours of introductory training for practicing mediators.

Through engaging dialogue, interactive exercises and simulated mediations facilitated (with constructive and useful feedback) by a faculty of experienced mediators, you will not only acquire vital knowledge about mediation theory, practice and techniques, but also begin developing the skills indispensable to being an effective mediator.

Offered over three consecutive days (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) and designed to appeal to a variety of learning styles, it is open to professionals interested in the field of mediation.

• Trainers

James MacPherson

Richard Naimark        

President of, ICDR, New York. Mr. Naimark participated in the establishment of the ICDR. Mr. Naimark has senior experience in the field of arbitration and ADR. He cooperated and provided technical assistance to various international entities, including United Nation Commission for International Trade Law as well as governments, non-profit organization, academic institutions and private sector.

Dr. Mohamed Abdel Raouf 

Dr. Abdel Raouf is the Director of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) and Lecturer on international commercial arbitration at the Institute of International Business Law (IDAI), Cairo University- Paris I Sorbonne. He is an Attorney at law at Abdel Raouf Law Firm, Cairo-Egypt. He is specialized in international arbitration and ADR as well as in commercial, business and investment laws. Dr. Abdel Raouf Law is a holder of a Ph.D. in private law from the University of Montpellier I, France. He is the author and co-author of several legal publications on arbitration.

Mark Appel

Mark Appel is an independent, international Arbitrator, Mediator, Consultant, Trainer and Principal at Appel Dispute Resolution. Mr. Appel has nearly 40 years of global arbitration and mediation experience, having served in both executive and senior executive positions at the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), leaving ICDR/AAA as Senior Vice President, EMEA in December of 2015. An experienced mediator and mediator trainer, Mr. Appel is a founding, now honorary, Director of the International Mediation Institute. He is also Chair of the IMI Investor State Taskforce. Mr. Appel has successfully mediated cases, including complex multi-party cases, in various industries including Construction/Infrastructure, Energy, Technology, Commercial Finance, Joint Venture/Partnership, Real Estate and Equipment Leasing.

Mostafa Abdel Ghaffar

Dr. Mostafa Abdel Ghaffar is currently working as Head of Arbitration of the Saudi Center for Commercial Arbitration. He had 23 years’ experience of working as judge, counselor at the Egyptian Ministry of Justice and Director of the Judicial and Legal Studies Institute in Bahrain. He represented and prepared the defense of Egypt in three legal disputes initiated against the government of Egypt within the framework of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes, (ICSID). Dr. Mostafa was the founder director of the Judicial and Legal Studies in Bahrain where he worked on establishing strategy, policies, procedure and initial plans. Dr. Mostafa also provided consultations in various projects conducted by the UNODC in the field of judicial training and judicial governance in Egypt, Iraq and Jordan.

Participants 

This course is ideal for professionals wanting to:

1. 1. Develop and enhance negotiation, facilitation and mediation skills.
       
   2. Learn more about mediation for their work.
       
   3. Advise staff or clients about mediation.
       
   4. Be retained as an expert by parties in a mediation session (e.g. a banker, engineer, businessmen).
       
   5. Begin professional training to be a mediator.

• Qualifications 

Legal training and education or prior experience with mediation, while helpful, are not required to fully participate in and benefit from all the course has to offer.

• Reading:

Mediation Manual is provided for reading prior to the Training.

• Language 

The Symposia is bilingual. All materials are provided in Arabic and English and the Symposia will be accompanied by simultaneous interpretation.

• Registration Fee

4000 SAR

*  25% discount for early registration.

• How to Apply:

Apply online here.

• Our Partner: ICDR-AAA

Established in 1926, the American Arbitration Association (AAA), is a not-for-profit organization with offices throughout the U.S. AAA has a long history and experience in the field of alternative dispute resolution. The AAA provides administrative services in the U.S., as well as abroad through its International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). Established in 1996 as the global component of the American Arbitration Association, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) provides conflict-management services in more than 80 countries with a staff fluent in 14 languages.