The next World Forum of Mediation Centres will be organized in Poland, Krakow from January 26 to 28, 2017.

Fabienne van der Vleugel, President of the World Forum of Mediation Centres, has finalized the program which gathers mediators coming from all over the world : from USA, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa.

The World Forum of Mediation Centres was created in 2001 by the Mediation and Conflict Prevention Commission of the UIA.

It brings together the most important commercial mediation practitioners and ADR centres from around the world and offers an occasion to exchange views on the development of ADR and best practices.

The meeting in Poland, Krakow will be the 23rd since the creation of the Forum.

This meeting is expected to be exceptional. The city of Krakow is fantastic and the various sessions of the Forum promise to be again stimulating and attractive.

This Forum will offer the opportunity to learn and enhance mediators’ practice. Mediators coming from all over the world will speak about specific topics such as consumer mediation, mediation with vulnerable parties, power of the narrative and the influence it has on the resolution of disputes, Med-Arb, intercultural mediation, mediation as part of organizational conflict management strategies.

This 23rd Forum is organised by the UIA with the support of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków

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