Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) East Africa Region is pleased to announce the 1 st Edition of Africa Mediation Symposium 2024, which will take place on 31st October 2024, to be held at Nairobi Safari Club, Lilian Towers, University Way, Nairobi.
THEME: Mediation Discourse: Advancing Practices in the African Landscape
The 2024 Symposium leverages on the success of one International Mediation Summit in 2023 and Two Regional Mediation Conferences in 2021and 2022. This event is expected to bring together the greatest minds in the Mediation Profession and industry players, leaders and experts from the entire globe, under one roof for a Hybrid (virtual and face-to-face) interaction providing a One
day of unparalleled knowledge sharing and networking opportunities.
Why Attend the Africa Mediation Symposium 2024?
- Network with the Best: Prepare to engage with top-notch professionals from the Mediation industry who will be attending virtually and physically from across the globe. Connect, collaborate, and establish meaningful relationships with like-minded individuals who share your passion for Mediation.
- Stay Ahead of the Curve: In the fast-evolving landscape of Professional Mediation, it is crucial to stay updated on the latest trends and best practices. The Symposium offers a platform for insightful discussions, keynote speeches, and panel sessions delivered by renowned thought leaders, ensuring you stay at the forefront of the industry.
- Learn from Experts: Gain invaluable knowledge and insights from Mediation experts who will be sharing their experiences, success stories, and strategies to overcome challenges in the realm of Professional Mediation.
- Interactive Sessions: The Symposium's agenda is designed to foster active interaction and engagement by participating in interactive presentations panel discussion sessions, using case studies illustrations that will empower you with practical skills and tools to enhance your Mediation practice. Take part in Question and Answer (Q&A) sessions and have all your burning concerns responded to by Mediation Professions finest.
- Unparalleled Sponsorship Opportunities: Elevate your brand presence and increase your visibility among a highly targeted audience by becoming a sponsor of The Africa Mediation Symposium 2024. As a sponsor, you will have exclusive access to additional benefits, including branding and exhibition opportunities, enhanced networking privileges and recognition during the entire event.
Delegate Registration:
- ICMC Members: KSH 5,500/USD 45 for physical or KSH 3,500/USD 30 for virtual attendance
- Non members: KSH 6,500/USD 55 for physical or KSH 4,500/USD 35 for virtual attendance
- Students: KSH 4,000 for physical or KSH 2500 virtual attendance
- IMI Members: 15% discount on the non-member category (USD 47 for physical or USD 30 for virtual attendance)
To register, click here
Join us in Nairobi this October and unlock a world of possibilities in the realm of professional mediation. For more information call: +254 714 390 371, +254 725 538 320, +254 721 677 045
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Our Partners
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Hon. Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, CBS, EBS, Trail Blazer (Rtd) Judge, Certified International Mediator (IMI), Accredited Mediator, Certified Advanced Mediator and Chartered Mediator, Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London, and the Kenya Branch. Prior to her elections as a Judge and First Vice President of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, she was a Court of Appeal, High Court Judge and Magistrate in Kenya (more…)
Session: Sustainable development and peace
Profile: Dr. DDeepika Saini is a distinguished Advocate, Arbitrator, Mediator, and Social Activist with a focus on women’s empowerment, legal education, and social justice. She is the founder of the Institute for Alternative Dispute Resolution in New Delhi, India, and a published author of three best-selling books on Amazon. Dr. Saini holds multiple academic credentials, including a BBA, MBA, LLB, PGDBM in Finance & Banking, PhD, and LLM in ADR. She serves as the National President of the Arbitration & Conciliation Council (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Justice Mutabazi is a High Court Judge of Rwanda since 2017, currently serving as an inspector of Courts, Judicial Spokesperson for the Courts and the current President of the Rwanda Judicial Officers Association. He is the point person of the advisory committee that oversees the implementation of mediation in the Rwandan Courts and has served in his capacity as an advisor to the Hon. Chief Justice of Rwanda. (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Amb. Dr. Koki Muli Grignon is a distinguished scholar, diplomat and expert with impeccable credentials, competencies and expertise in electoral law, elections, democracy, governance and human rights. She possesses a PhD in Law (focusing on electoral law, elections management, democracy and governance) from University of Dar-es-Salaam, a Masters in Human Rights from University of London (more…)
Session: Development of mediation in Singapore
Profile: Linda’s passion in appropriate dispute resolution was ignited in 2004 at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. She is a Principal Mediator and Trainer with the Singapore Mediation Centre where she focuses on shareholder, intellectual property, contract, employment and healthcare disputes. She is an Associate Mediator and Trainer with the Eagles Mediation and Counselling Centre where she focuses on family and interpersonal disputes. Linda is also appointed to the Hong Kong Mainland China Joint Mediation Centre’s International Panel. (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Justice Nyakundi is the resident Judge of the High Court at Eldoret, Kenya.
Session: IMI
Profile: Ivana Ninčić Österle is the Executive Director of the International Mediation Institute. She is a lawyer, mediator and public policy consultant for judicial reform, specializing in mediation and judicial efficiency. Since 2013, she supported the Ministry of Justice of Serbia in EU integration, within which she has worked on devising a more sustainable mediation system as well as on active promotion of mediation, including through leading the initiative to sign the Singapore Convention. (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Victor Baba Emmanuel Aligo, Weinstein Senior Fellow is a bridges builder, mediator, and Christian minister. A peace-maker, he is also a consultant on justice, community empowerment, and peace-building programs. After his first degree, he ventured into community organizing, cross cultural dialogue, and bridges building initiatives in communities. He then received mediation training from the Mediation Training Institute East Africa under James Mang’erere. (more…)
Session: Mediating criminal matters
Speaker: Pascal Comvalius MSc is an IMI-Certified Mediator and a Certified Hostage /Crisis Negotiator. He obtained a Masters Degree in “Communication, Behavior and Credibility analysis”. Pascal practices and teaches in the USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia. He is specialized in family and criminal law mediation. He is the former vice-president of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators, a former member of the International Standards Executive Committee of IMI and is the current chair of the IMI appraisal committee. (more…)
Session: Mediation landscape in India and the way forward
Profile: A practicing lawyer since 1991 and a Full time Mediator since 2009, she has served as Court appointed Mediator, Private Mediator, Arbitrator and Conciliator. One of the first trained mediator of the Supreme Court Mediation Centre and is a Senior Mediator, Trainer and Observer at Supreme Court of India. She is known for her extraordinary skills to resolve even the most complex disputes in shortest time and restoring the communication and relationship between the disputing parties which has been recognized even by the Courts by recording appreciation for her work. (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Dr. BITHO is an attorney and the founder of BITHO LAW, a law firm specializing in business law in Paris. He acts as an arbitrator or counsel in arbitration matters. Dr. BITHO has nearly two decades of experience in the United States, France, and Togo. He specializes particularly in commercial and investment arbitration and Mediation, as well as in legal engineering related to business law, including cross-border infrastructure and energy projects, project financing, international investment and OHADA business law, and Ohada mediation. (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Hon. Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, CBS, EBS, Trail Blazer (Rtd) Judge, Certified International Mediator (IMI), Accredited Mediator, Certified Advanced Mediator and Chartered Mediator, Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London, and the Kenya Branch. Prior to her elections as a Judge and First Vice President of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, she was a Court of Appeal, High Court Judge and Magistrate in Kenya (more…)
Session: Sustainable development and peace
Profile: Dr. DDeepika Saini is a distinguished Advocate, Arbitrator, Mediator, and Social Activist with a focus on women’s empowerment, legal education, and social justice. She is the founder of the Institute for Alternative Dispute Resolution in New Delhi, India, and a published author of three best-selling books on Amazon. Dr. Saini holds multiple academic credentials, including a BBA, MBA, LLB, PGDBM in Finance & Banking, PhD, and LLM in ADR. She serves as the National President of the Arbitration & Conciliation Council (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Justice Mutabazi is a High Court Judge of Rwanda since 2017, currently serving as an inspector of Courts, Judicial Spokesperson for the Courts and the current President of the Rwanda Judicial Officers Association. He is the point person of the advisory committee that oversees the implementation of mediation in the Rwandan Courts and has served in his capacity as an advisor to the Hon. Chief Justice of Rwanda. (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Amb. Dr. Koki Muli Grignon is a distinguished scholar, diplomat and expert with impeccable credentials, competencies and expertise in electoral law, elections, democracy, governance and human rights. She possesses a PhD in Law (focusing on electoral law, elections management, democracy and governance) from University of Dar-es-Salaam, a Masters in Human Rights from University of London (more…)
Session: Development of mediation in Singapore
Profile: Linda’s passion in appropriate dispute resolution was ignited in 2004 at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. She is a Principal Mediator and Trainer with the Singapore Mediation Centre where she focuses on shareholder, intellectual property, contract, employment and healthcare disputes. She is an Associate Mediator and Trainer with the Eagles Mediation and Counselling Centre where she focuses on family and interpersonal disputes. Linda is also appointed to the Hong Kong Mainland China Joint Mediation Centre’s International Panel. (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Justice Nyakundi is the resident Judge of the High Court at Eldoret, Kenya.
Session: IMI
Profile: Ivana Ninčić Österle is the Executive Director of the International Mediation Institute. She is a lawyer, mediator and public policy consultant for judicial reform, specializing in mediation and judicial efficiency. Since 2013, she supported the Ministry of Justice of Serbia in EU integration, within which she has worked on devising a more sustainable mediation system as well as on active promotion of mediation, including through leading the initiative to sign the Singapore Convention. (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Victor Baba Emmanuel Aligo, Weinstein Senior Fellow is a bridges builder, mediator, and Christian minister. A peace-maker, he is also a consultant on justice, community empowerment, and peace-building programs. After his first degree, he ventured into community organizing, cross cultural dialogue, and bridges building initiatives in communities. He then received mediation training from the Mediation Training Institute East Africa under James Mang’erere. (more…)
Session: Mediating criminal matters
Speaker: Pascal Comvalius MSc is an IMI-Certified Mediator and a Certified Hostage /Crisis Negotiator. He obtained a Masters Degree in “Communication, Behavior and Credibility analysis”. Pascal practices and teaches in the USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia. He is specialized in family and criminal law mediation. He is the former vice-president of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators, a former member of the International Standards Executive Committee of IMI and is the current chair of the IMI appraisal committee. (more…)
Session: Mediation landscape in India and the way forward
Profile: A practicing lawyer since 1991 and a Full time Mediator since 2009, she has served as Court appointed Mediator, Private Mediator, Arbitrator and Conciliator. One of the first trained mediator of the Supreme Court Mediation Centre and is a Senior Mediator, Trainer and Observer at Supreme Court of India. She is known for her extraordinary skills to resolve even the most complex disputes in shortest time and restoring the communication and relationship between the disputing parties which has been recognized even by the Courts by recording appreciation for her work. (more…)
Session: Panel discussion – Do Mediators Really Practice Differently Around the World: An Exploration of Mediation Concepts, Styles, and Strategies
Profile: Dr. BITHO is an attorney and the founder of BITHO LAW, a law firm specializing in business law in Paris. He acts as an arbitrator or counsel in arbitration matters. Dr. BITHO has nearly two decades of experience in the United States, France, and Togo. He specializes particularly in commercial and investment arbitration and Mediation, as well as in legal engineering related to business law, including cross-border infrastructure and energy projects, project financing, international investment and OHADA business law, and Ohada mediation. (more…)
The Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) is pleased to bring you the Africa Mediation Symposium which will take place on 31st October, 2024.
Theme: Mediation Landscape in Africa: Legal and Policy Framework
Venue: This is a blended conference taking place both physically and virtually.
Physical attendance will be at the Nairobi Safari Club, Lilian Towers, University Way, Nairobi, Kenya.
The attendance link will be sent out to all the registered virtual participants as we near the conference date.
Join us as we explore the African mediation landscape and the opportunities in conflict resolution outside the courtroom!