Martin Griffiths is the founding director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a Swiss foundation specialising in conflict mediation and related policy issues. From 1994 to 1999 he was an official in the UN Secretariat, principally in its Humanitarian Affairs Department (later OCHA). He served in Geneva, New York and the Great Lakes. His last assignment was in the Balkans, both as UN Coordinator based in Skopje and later as Deputy to Sergio Vieira de Mello in Kosovo. Prior to those years in the UN, Martin Griffiths worked for UNICEF (in Asia), for Save the Children Fund (UK) and Actionaid (as Director), and for the British Diplomatic Service.
He is a lawyer by training, and has worked as an attorney in Portland Oregon.

Ambassador Greminger is Head of Political Affairs Division IV, Human Security, of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. The Division is Foreign Affairs' main competence-centre for peace, human rights as well as for humanitarian and migration policy. PDIV offers facilitation and mediation services to more than half a dozen peace processes worldwide (Kosovo, Macedonia, Middle East, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sudan), it designs and implements conflict transformation programmes (dialogue promotion, constitutional expertise, transitional justice, mine action, small arms etc.), it launches diplomatic initiatives in the mentioned policy fields (i.e. the creation of the UN Human Rights Council), it sends more than 200 experts per year to multilateral and bilateral peace operations and maintains contact with a dozen strategic partners of the Ministry (Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Geneva Centre for International Security Policy, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue etc.). He is responsible for a team of over 70 employees and an annual  budget of 65 million Swiss francs.

Ambassador Greminger studied history, economics and political science at the University of Zürich and earned his doctorate in history. He is a Lieutnant Colonel (GS) of the Swiss Army.
He joined the diplomatic service of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1990 and started his diplomatic career as an attaché at the Swiss Embassy in Tel Aviv. In 1992 he became diplomatic adviser for development policy at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). He was a co-author of the Federal Council's Guidelines North-South and deputy-head of the division in charge of their implementation in SDC. In 1996, he was promoted to head of the Development Policy and Research Division of SDC and Secretary of the Federal Council's Consultative Commission for International Cooperation. From 1999 to 2001, he was chargé d'affaires of the Swiss Embassy in Maputo and country-director of Switzerland's development cooperation programme in Mozambique. On his return to headquarters he became deputy-head of Political Affairs Division IV, in charge of the Peace Policy and Human Security Section.

Mahuad served as President of Ecuador from August 1998 to January 2000, capping a career of nearly 20 years in Ecuadorian politics , which included two terms as Mayor of Quito and member of the National Congress. His experiences, including the coup that ended his government, have led him to a second career of scholarship and teaching on the challenges of governing struggling democracies in the age of globalization. He has served as a Fellow at three units of Harvard University—the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, the Institute of Politics, and the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School.

Mahuad holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard, as well as a JD from the Catholic University of Ecuador. He actually serves as a Visiting Professor in Political Science and a Visiting Fellow at The Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he addressed faculty and students as a guest lecturer in Spring 2003.

Pierre Hazan is teaching at Geneva University. He is also a human rights consultant and a writer on international affairs, and more specifically on post conflict justice (International Criminal Tribunals and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions). He was a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, in Washington DC and a fellow at Harvard Law School (2005-2007). Prior to that, he was a UN correspondent in Geneva for the French newspaper Libération and the Swiss daily Le Temps. In this position, he has covered many international crises including those in the Balkans, in the Great Lakes region of Africa and in the Middle East. He has produced four television documentaries with the Franco-German channel ARTE and Swiss Public Broadcasting TV; these documentaries explored such subjects as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and universal jurisdiction. Pierre Hazan is also one of the founding members of the International Film Festival on Human Rights in Geneva. His last books are « Juger la guerre, juger l’histoire, du bon usage des commissions vérité et de la justice internationale » (PUF, 2007) and « Justice in A Time of War, the Secret History of the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia » (Texas A&M, 2004)and have been widely acclaimed. He received the Georges-Dreyfus Prize for hist last book.
Hazan holds a PhD in political science from Geneva University and a master’s in strategic studies from Aberdeen University (UK).

Journaliste de formation et de métier
Médiatrice accréditée CEDR-Londres
Chambre Suisse Médiation Commerciale
Médiatrice Etat de Genève
Négociatrice internationale forum de paix
Formatrice d’adultes
Résolution de Conflits & Stratégies de Communication.

Au bénéfice d’une licence universitaire et d’un M.A. en Lettres obtenue à l’Université de Genève, Heidelberg et Oxford (littérature comparée), Brigitte Kehrer a accumulé de nombreuses et riches compétences dans les domaines suivants :

• Enseignement et Pédagogie au service de l’Instruction Publique de l’Etat de Genève
• Journalisme en qualité de cheffe de rubrique à la Tribune de Genève
• Management et droit international auprès du Comité internationale de la Croix-rouge à Genève ainsi que sur le terrain à l’étranger (sous-continent Indien, Afrique de l’Ouest, Bosnie, Sri Lanka, Mozambique)
• Gouvernemental et Organisation non-gouvernementale (DFAE, Rwanda, DDC, Berne, MSF, Genève, Unicef, Genève)

Trilingue français, anglais, allemand, elle est également à l’aise en italien et en portugais. Elle est à même de dispenser ses cours et son coaching dans plusieurs langues.

En résumé et en quelques mots : - Certified International mediator (CEDR London, State of Geneva, CMAP, WIP0).
- Coach, Trainer & Consultant for Communication Strategies and Negotiations
- International professional humanitarian coordinator, journalist & conflict transformation projects.
- Gender oriented poverty reduction specialist.
- Swiss Chargé d’Affaires Rwanda 1997 to 2001 (DFAE)
- Worked for ICRC, SDC, UN & MSF in Guinea-Conakry, Mozambique, Mali, South Africa, Sri Lanka, & Cambodia.
- Coordinated 2001 UN-OCHA “Interagency Humanitarian Appeal”.
- Published 2002 book on Rwanda’s reconciliation (www.Amazon).
- 2004-05 in Washington DC for IMTD (Institute for Multitrack Diplomacy) & then in Geneva with CASIN, Centre for International Negotiations.
- Teaches Media-Peace building political Journalism for transitional governments.
- 2006-2007 Country Representative in Ivory Coast for INTERNEWS, reliable information in conflict zones, “Peace Journalism” (Method J. Galtung) in 15 written Newspapers.
- Lead in Abidjan for American Embassy strategic planning workshops, gender & economic development, good Governance, Democratization & Justice towards the preparation of elections.
- Evaluations Post-Conflict projects UNDP in DRC- Congo, Afghanistan & Sierra Leone.
- Training in communications & Peace Building for SYNI Lausanne.

Ran Kuttner is an Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Creighton University School of Law.
For the past three years, Ran has been a Visiting Researcher and an Associate at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where, among other research projects, he helped redesign and teach the Harvard mediation course, a joint course for law and MBA students. He submitted his Ph.D. at the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation at Bar-Ilan University, where in the past he has co-taught a graduate-level mediation certification course. He also designed a mediation certification program in his Center for the Study of Mediation and Conflict Management (“Merhav”), and has taught numerous mediation courses for Israeli educators, companies and general public. In his research and teaching, Ran examines philosophical aspects of mediation and aims to improve both the understanding and the practice of transformation of adversity into dialogue through mediation.

Dr. Abdul-Hadi Jadallah is President and Managing Director of Kommon Denominator, Inc.She advised and worked on strategic projects related to conflict prevention and mitigation, training and education, and capacity building on the national and international levels. She has participated in a number of global conferences on Conflict Resolution, International Women’s Leadership Development, and has been a speaker and participant at various national and international forums.

As President and Managing Director of Kommon Denominator, Inc. she has developed innovative solutions and provided services to a number of Fortune 500 companies, government and not for profit organizations. She has designed and delivered highly successful small and large-scale interventions in corporate, community and international settings. She is a skilled facilitator and is a Virginia Court Certified mediator. Dr. Abdul-Hadi Jadallah is the recipient of the 2008 Woman Business Enterprise of the Year, D. C. region award conferred by the Woman Presidents Education Organization (WPEO) and is also the recipient of the Top 100 Minority Business Award (2007), awarded by the University of Maryland, The Governor’s Office for Minority Affairs and the Maryland Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Abdul-Hadi Jadallah earned her Ph.D. from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Her dissertation research titled “Reflections on Practice: The Impact of 9/11 on Conflict Resolvers” focused on the impact of a critical event – 9/11 - on the practice of conflict resolvers. She teaches graduate level courses on cross cultural mediation, conflict resolution practice and protracted conflicts in lead academic institutions. She is currently adjunct faculty at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, American University School of International Service / International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program, Georgetown University School of Government / M.A. Program in Conflict Resolution, Affiliate faculty at the Women’s Center at George Mason University, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Global Peace at American University.

Dr. Abdul-Hadi Jadallah serves her community through active board participation. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, the Board of Directors of Northern Virginia Mediation Services (Past President), a member of the original advisory board for Peace x Peace, and member of Board of Directors, Institute for Victims of Trauma, McLean, VA. She is also a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, Women in International Security, Virginia Mediation Network and Rotary International.

Founding Partner of Aina, Blankson & Co. (ABC), Kehinde Aina had his first degree in Political Science before venturing into Law. With expertise in Dispute Resolution, Commercial Arbitration, Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance, he has been involved in a number of Commercial Arbitration, Capital Market and cross border transactions for multinationals and governments.

He recently acted as transaction adviser to one of the most capitalized bank in Nigeria in an equity financing deal worth $788, 131,266.41 and featured prominently in the erstwhile Banking reforms, leading the Firm’s transaction team in mergers and acquisitions transactions that covered 22 banking institutions and allied subsidiaries with a combined capital base of about $ 4,306,126,443.53 USD.

With a string of high net worth transactions to his credit, including the Abuja International Hotels purchase, the Ajaokuta Steel Plant acquisition; the Insurance sector recapitalization in which he coordinated 18 other law firms and the trail blazing N55 Billion Bond Issue of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc, he has also consulted for the World Bank on a review of Nigerian Insolvency Laws, its doing business ratings and its alternative dispute resolution framework.

A consultant to the Investment & Securities Tribunal, and leading companies, Kehinde Aina’s professionalism, industry and creative approach to commercial transactions has earned him the respect of his peers and caused a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria to describe him as “…a pride and asset to the legal profession…….”

Founder of both the Negotiations and Conflicts Management Group (NCMG) and The Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse (the first court-connected ADR Centre in Africa), Kehinde Aina has honed his expertise in Negotiation, Mediation and Dispute Resolution Systems Design, and he has been involved in a number of high profile Mediation and Arbitration transactions including multi-million dollar settlements on behalf of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria and Intercontinental Bank Plc. He has also advised on the development and design of private and court-connected ADR projects for corporations, judiciaries and governments. With extensive work experience in varied cross border transactions, his professionalism is notable.

He is also a founding member and co-chair of the African Mediation Association (AfMA) and also sits on the Standards Committee of the International Mediation Institute (IMI): an institution created jointly by the Netherlands Mediation Institute, Singapore Mediation Centre/Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SMC/SIAC) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution/American Arbitration Association (ICDR/AAA).

As a Consultant to The World Bank, public agencies, governments and multinational corporations, he has represented clients in numerous negotiations, Capital Market transactions, Project Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions and International Commercial Arbitration.

He is member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Institute of Petroleum, the International Bar Association, American Bar Association and the Nigerian Bar Association.

RECENT ADR ENGAGMENTS

- Party Appointed Arbitrator in connection with dispute between a conglomerate and a professional services firm relating to the non payment of professional fees by the conglomerate to a consultancy firm. Issues include breach of contract, non performance and jurisdiction.
- Mediator in a contractual dispute between an international Bank and a Nigerian Bank in an Airline financing transaction. Issues involved interpretation of contractual terms and representation.
- Engaged as ADR Consultant to Banking Institution to design and implement dispute resolution mechanisms to be integrated into the Bank’s operations.
- Engaged as ADR Consultant to the World Bank to design and institute alternative dispute resolution institution across West Africa’s main commercial centres.

PUBLICATIONS

i)“The Art of Negotiating” - Guardian Newspapers
ii)“Dispute Resolution: Exploring the Alternatives” - Concord Newspapers
iii)“The Multi-Door Courthouse” - NIALS & USIS
iv)“Rethinking Justice Bello Vs. Concord” - Concord Newspapers
v)“Settling the ASUU-GOVERNMENT Conflict without the Table”
vi)“Apology - A tool of Mediation” - Guardian Newspapers
vii)“Divorce Never a Clean Break” - Guardian Newspapers

SEMINARS/CONFERENCES

1) “Alternative Dispute Resolution” – Special Lecture at The Nigerian Law School. [May 13, 1997]
2) “Burden Sharing: Another Way to Settle community Conflicts”
3) “Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) And The Corporate Organisation – Paper Presented at a Monthly In-House Seminar of Aina, Blankson & Co.(ABC) [March 26, 1998].
4) “Community Relations, Compensation and Conflict Management In Oil Producing States of Nigeria: - Paper Delivered at the 1998 International Seminar on The Petroleum Industry And The Nigerian Environment– Sheraton Hotels & Towers, Abuja. [December 2, 1998].
5) “ADR 2000 – Resolving Corporate Disputes In the 21st Century” - Institute of Directors’ Members Evening: [April 28, 1999].
6) The Role of Rightholders In Protecting Their Rights And Resolving Intellectual Property Disputes” – Paper Presented At a Conference on The Commercialisation and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Nigeria – Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos; [July 1 – 2, 1999].
7) “Conflict Management and Resolution” Paper delivered at a Seminar on The Media and Conflict Management Organised by Public Awareness Forum and Friedrich Ebert Foundation [July 12, 2000].
8) “Alternative Dispute Resolution and The Law” Paper delivered at the Annual Lecture of The Law Society, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos.
[August 2, 2000].
9) “Making Mediation An Acceptable Means of Alternative Dispute Resolution In Lagos State and Nigeria”: Paper Presented At A Roundtable Conference on Mediation Oganised By Citizens Mediation Centre, Directorate of Citizens Rights, Lagos State Ministry of Justice at the Sheraton Hotels & Towers, Ikeja, Lagos. [September 26, 2000].
10) “Settlement of Intellectual Property Disputes by Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)”: Paper presented at the Stakeholders Conference On Administration of Intellectual Property in Nigeria, Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Abuja. [December 14, 2000].
11) “Elections & Conflict: The Role of Civil Society Organisations Conflict Indicators and Early Warning Mechanisms in Africa” [July 18 & 19, 2001]
12) “Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice Procedure and Practice”: Being Lecture delivered at the Nigerian Law Schools’ Practice Week (Lagos, Abuja, Enugu and Kano). [August 2001]
13) “Dispute Resolution”: Being an Interactive Presentation at a Legal Workshop for Business Lawyers and Executives. [November 2001]
14) “Towards an Effective Management of Banking Disputes”: Being paper presented at an International Conference on Banking & Finance organised by the Central Bank of Nigeria and Anyiam-Osigwe & Co. [December 2001]
15) “Court-Connected ADR Process - The Nigerian Experience”: being paper presented at a Training Workshop for Judges organised by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) and the National Judicial Institute [January 26 –28 2002]
16) “Nigerian Democracy: The Need For Conflict Resolution Mechanisms” Being Paper delivered at the Catholic Secretariat Forum, organized by the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, [October 13, 2002].
17) “Dispute Resolution in the Legislature: Rethinking The ADR Options” Paper written as a contribution to the book on ‘Law and Practice of the Legislature in Nigeria - Essays in Honour of Senator Anyim Pius Anyim’ Edited by Kevin N. Nwosu, Esq.
18) “Providing Access to Justice Through the 5-Prong ‘ADR 2000’ Campaign Agenda” Paper Presented at the Workshop of the Project Implementation Unit (Legal and Judicial Reform Project), [November 25, 2002].
19) “The Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse and the Legal Profession” Paper delivered at a Seminar organised by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) [December 9, 2002].
20) “The Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse and the Judge: A New Beginning” Paper presented at a Workshop for Judges organised by the National Judicial Institute in Abuja. [February 5, 2003].
21) “Management of Electoral Conflicts: The Mediation Approach” Paper presented at the Nigerian Bar Association (Lagos Branch) Workshop at the High Court of Lagos State. [April 3, 2003]
22) “ADR In Africa: The Prospect for The Multi-Door Courthouse Concept” Paper presented at the Colloquium on International Commercial Arbitration & African States, School of Law, King’s College, London. [June 5, 2003]
23) “The Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse: One Year After” Paper presented at a Seminar organised by The Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse and the Nigerian Bar Association [Tuesday, September 30, 2003]
24) “Debt Recovery & The LMDC: A New Promise” Paper delivered at a Workshop organised by the Negotiation & Conflict Management Group (NCMG) & Credit Risk Managers Association, Golden Gate Restaurant, Ikoyi, Lagos [Wednesday, November 5, 2003].
25) “Mediation & Other ADR Techniques” being paper presented at a workshop organised by the Centre for Law & Development, for the Legal Aid Council Allied House, Lagos. [Thursday, November 6, 2003).
26) “Reflections on ADR” being paper delivered at the Induction of the Institute of Chartered Mediators & Conciliators [November 27, 2003] NICON Congress Hall.
27) “Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolutions” being paper delivered at a Seminar organised by Aluko & Oyebode in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Justice (Friday, November 21, 2003]
28) “Replication of the Multi-Door Concept” being paper presented at a meeting of the Body of Attorneys-General at Owena Motels International Akure, Ondo State, organised by the Federal Ministry of Justice, FCT Abuja [Thursday, February 26, 2004]
29) “ADR: A Real Alternative?” Being a paper presented at the Nigerian Bar Association, FCT Abuja
30) “Resolving Legal Disputes Through Alternative Disputes Resolution: The Practical Angle” Paper delivered at a seminar organised by Equity Law Firm [November 2, 2004]
31) “Conciliation, Negotiation, Mediation & Arbitration: Are Women Better?” Paper delivered at a Training Course for the Stakeholders on the New Court Rules organised by Fairfield & Co., & RulesWatch [March 3 & 4, 2005]
32) “ADR and the Managerial Magistrate”, By Kehinde Aina Paper delivered at a Forum for Continuing Education for Magistrates organised by Magistrates Association of Niger, Lagos State Branch [March 10, 2005]
33) “Review of the Challenges of Consolidation” being Paper Presented at the LBS 5th Annual Conference on Banking at LBS Pan African University, Ajah, Lagos [Wednesday, March 23, 2005]
34) “The Multi-Door Courthouse Concept: A Silent Revolution In Legal Practice” Delivered at the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual Conference on August 29, 2005 at Jos, Nigeria
35) “Resolving Trademarks Related Disputes Through Alternative Dispute Resolution” Delivered at the workshop on Organised by the International Trademarks Association & Jackson Etti & Edu at Protea Hotel Lagos [ April 7, 2005]
36) “Alternative Dispute Resolution: Principles & Practice” Delivered at the 5th Annual National Conference of CRIMA organised by Credit Risk Association of Nigeria (CRIMA) [ April 20, 2006]
37) “ Models of Early Warning, Early Response System for Nigeria” Delivered at a Workshop organised by the Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution Lokoja, Nigeria [ April 13, 2005]
38) “Alternative Dispute Resolution: Back to The Basics” Delivered at the Annual NBA Port Harcourt Lecture, January 17, 2006.
39) “The Multi-Door Courthouse: An Overview” Delivered at the Council of Legal Education Induction Course for Newly appointed Judges and Kadis. June 6, 2006.
40)“Mediation as Economic Tool” Delivered at the NBA Section of Business Law Second Annual Lecture. Abuja, [Nigeria, February 19, 2007].
41) “Conflict Management in a Developing Business Market: The Nigerian Experience”. Paper Delivered at the CPR Meeting, Paris 2007
42) “Emerging Trends in Dispute Resolution” Conference for Legal Advisers at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lagos. June 6, 2007.
43)“ Legal Practice & Procedure: Global Trends” Annual Conference of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Lagos. June 14, 2007.

De formation de base orthophoniste, puis éducatrice de parents et psychologue, Marianne Souquet s’est formée à la médiation familiale et à la médiation scolaire en 1991 aux Etats-Unis où elle a vécu de nombreuses années avec son mari et ses quatre enfants. De retour en France, Marianne SOUQUET a participé au développement de la médiation en milieu scolaire, dans le cadre de l’association Résonances qu’elle a co-fondé en Provence. Actuellement, elle continue d’exercer la médiation dans la région d’Aix-en-Provence, principalement en matière famililale. Elle est également formatrice en médiation, notamment en médiation familiale et en médiation en milieu scolaire.
Elle a le Diplôme d’Etat de Médiateur Familial et Certificat Européen de Médiation Familiale Internationale.
Membre de l’APMF (Association Pour la Médiation Familiale), de l’AIFI (Association Internationale Francophone pour les Intervenants auprès des familles séparées), de ACR (Association for Conflict Resolution)
Elle a écrit plusieurs articles sur la médiation et a participé à l’écriture d’un ouvrage collectif : “La médiation en milieu scolaire”, in BONAFE-SCHMITT (J.P.), DAHAN (J.), SALZER (J.), SOUQUET (M.), VOUCHE (J.P.), La mediation, les médiations, Erès, 1999

Jacques SALZER est maître de conférences à l’université Paris-Dauphine, en retraite. Il a été co-créateur de formations à la gestion des conflits & à la médiation au C.N.A.M. (Paris, Montpellier ) et aux universités de Paris V et Paris IX. IL est intervenu en formation à la médiation aux universités de Paris II, Paris V, Paris X, AIX-MARSEILLE… ainsi que dans de nombreuses autres formations en France et à l’étranger.

Après des études de gestion (H.E.C.), de Sciences Politiques (Economie Publique) et une expérience de quatre ans d’entreprise à travers le stage d’expertise comptable, il se consacre à l’enseignement et à la recherche. Il s’ouvre à la psycho-sociologie, passe un doctorat en Sciences de l’Education.

Il coordonne à l’université les enseignement liés à l’expression, la communication inter-personnelle tant dans l’entreprise que dans toute situation de vie quotidienne. Il intègre dans son travail d’enseignement des éléments issus du travail de l’acteur au théâtre dans le cadre de jeux de rôles. La formation est ainsi liée à la mise en pratique par la représentation et l’analyse de la réalité recréée en situation.

En 1983, il commence à diriger ses recherches sur les situations difficiles en communication, sur les « conflits », dans leurs aspects juridiques et non juridiques. Cela l’amène à développer un enseignement menant de la compréhension des conflits à la négociation et la médiation. Il a lui-même joué un rôle de médiateur, entre autres en médiation familiale, dont une médiation familiale internationale (enlèvement d’enfant), …), pour l'établissement de relations de travail  entre civils palestiniens et israëliens (enseignants), dans le cadre de l’UNICEF en Algérie pour la formation de conseillers d'orientation scolaire arabisants et francophones, dans le gestion d’associations et en médiation interne à l’entreprise ( concertation direction-salariés, grève…).

Il a également conduit des groupes d’ «analyse ds pratiques «  des médiateurs, dans la famille, le social, entre entreprises et entre entreprise et consommateurs. Ceci a encore élargi son champs de la variété des modèles utilisés et des styles de médiateur.

Ces domaines ( méthodes de résolution pacifique des différends, à la satisfaction de tous) , relativement neufs dans l’enseignement reliés à sa connaissance de langues étrangères l’ont amené à intervenir ponctuellement en formation dans de nombreux pays étrangers ( Albanie, Allemagne, Algérie, Belgique, Grande Bretagne, Grèce, Haïti,Italie, Luxembourg, Macédoine, Portugal, Suisse, Russie, Tchéquie, USA, … ) ainsi que dans de dans de nombreux colloques.

Il a fait partie du comité d’organisation (responsabilité du secteur « médiation ») de la Biennale de la négociation  « NEGOCIA », rattachée à la Chambre de Commerce de Paris, en 2003, 2005 et 2007. Il a travaillé sur quatre rapports d’évaluation des effets de la médiation par enquête auprès de personnes qui y ont eu recours. Il continue à en évaluer les effets, afin d’améliorer notre connaissance des limites et des apports de la médiation.

Publications

Outre de nombreux articles, il est co-auteur de

ENSEIGNER C’EST AUSSI SAVOIR COMMUNIQUER, Ed. d’ORGANISATION, 1991

LA MEDIATION, LES MEDIATIONS (Ed. ERES, 1999)  -  Chapitre sur « La
médiation dans le travail et les organisations ».  Ce livre contient aussi
un chapitre sur la médiation scolaire ( Auteur : Marianne SOUQUET)

FORMER A ECOUTER, 55 fiches de formation à l'écoute, Ed. D'ORGANISATION, 2003

LA MEDIATION, mode d'emploi -  Chapitre introductif , Edition A2CMEDIAS, 2007

METHODE DE MEDIATION, Ed. DUNOD, à paraître en fin 2008.

Stephen Goldberg est Professeur de Droit à Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (USA), où il a enseigné la négociation, la médiation, et l’arbitrage. Il a également enseigné la négociation à l’ENA et à l’ESSEC. Professeur Goldberg est médiateur, arbitre, et consultant sur la résolution des conflits depuis 35 ans. Il est PDG du Mediation Research & Education Project, Inc. ; il est médiateur du Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (Lausanne).Professeur Goldberg a écrit de nombreux articles et livres. Son plus récent livre, provisoirement intitulé « Comment Résoudre Les Conflits » (avec William Ury, Jeanne Brett, et François Mancy)( Paris: éditions A2C Medias) va être publié en France fin 2008.

Partner at Altenburger Law Firm Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland (www.altenburger.ch).
Certified Commercial mediator CEDR, CMAP, SCCM and FSA.
Registered Mediator at the Geneva Courts for civil as well as criminal mediations.
Vice-President for Geneva of the Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (www.csmc.ch).
Member of the Mediation Committees of the IBA and of the Swiss Lawyers Association (FSA), Birgit Sambeth Glasner is an enthusiastic practicing mediator since 1997, also educated in systemic and offender/victim relationships.
She graduated Lic.iur from the University of Geneva and got an LL.M. in International banking law from Boston University. She first worked for Baker & Mc Kenzie Chicago and Geneva before practicing 5 years at the legal and tax Department of Ernst & Young in Basel. She then managed her own law firm during 11 years and merged with Altenburger in 2005 where she is the “managing partner” for Geneva. Her working languages are English as well as German and French (mother tongues) and she specializes in commercial and international dispute resolutions.

In excess of 25 years experience in the practice of international commercial law. In excess of 15 years’ experience as Company Director and European General Counsel to a multi-national aerospace, marine and electronics company. Expertise in the following areas: corporate governance and compliance, general corporate and commercial law, corporate secretarial, acquisitions and divestitures, banking, financing, taxation, government procurement, export regulations, intellectual property, international sales, competition, environmental and employment law, international arbitration and alternate dispute resolution. Management of a legal staff of 7 persons.

Prof. Dr. Dendorfer is at the Munich office of HEUSSEN Law Firm (HEUSSEN Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH) and practises corporate, employment and international commercial law as well as dispute resolution. She has many years of practical experience as an in-house lawyer. She has been admitted as a German attorney-at-law (Rechtsanwältin) since 1996 and is admitted to the courts of the US state of New York as well as to the U.S. Federal Courts.

Prof. Dr. Dendorfer acts mainly on behalf of companies, but also for executive board members, directors and senior executives, often in cooperation with foreign law firms in cases involving international issues. Prof. Dr. Dendorfer has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution, particularly commercial mediation. She is also the author, or co-author, of numerous publications on employment law, corporate law and alternative dispute resolution. She is also regularly asked to lecture at national and international conferences. In addition, Prof. Dr. Dendorfer has been appointed as a part-time Professor of Law at the University of Cooperative Education Ravensburg/Germany.

Education

1983 - 1990 : University of Bielefeld, Germany State Bar Examination
Law degree
1994 - 1995 : LL.M.-Studium at University of Illinois, College of Law
Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree
2000 : PhD-thesis Grade: Magna cum Laude
1998 - 2000 : Part Time Executive MBA Program, Maastricht University, Netherlands, Master of Business (MBA) degree
2001 : Accredited Mediator Fernuniversität Hagen (Germany)

Employment

July 1990 – February 1996 (with one year interruption for the LL.M. studies) : University of Bielefeld Teaching Assistant in Civil Law, German and European Business Law, Unfair Competition Law
1994/1995 : University of Illinois, College of Law Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA Research Assistant
since 1996 : Attorney at Law (Germany and USA) admitted to the German courts and to the courts of the State New York/USA, since 2007 also at the U.S. Federal Courts
1996 – 2000 : Finanzbau-MARITIM-Unternehmensgruppe Head of the Legal Department and “Prokurist”
1997 – 2000 : Gesellschaft für Vermögensverwaltung mbH Managing Director of a subsidiary company of inanzbau-MARITIM-Group
2000 – 2001 : Articon-Integralis AG Corporate Lawyer and Corporate Secretary
since April 2001 : HEUSSEN Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft GmbH Partner
since 2001 : Special qualification in the field of German Labor Law: “Fachanwältin für Arbeitsrecht”
since April 2002 : Professor of Law (part-time) at the University of Cooperative Education at Ravensburg, teaching corporate law, labour law and ADR
since 2007 : Special qualification in the field of Corporate and Trade Law: “Fachanwältin für Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht”

Additional Activities

Member of the DIS – German Institution of Arbitration, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the CIArb – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the German-American

Lawyers Association and of the New York State Bar Association as well as panelist at CPR, New York

Member of Rotary International and president of the Rotary Club Tutzing for 2007/2008

Member of the EUCON – European Institute for Conflict Management e.V., Munich, a German Association working in the fields of Negotiation, Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Honorary member of the Board of Directors for a Hungarian Mediation Association

Kenneth Cloke is Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and a mediator, arbitrator, attorney, coach, consultant, and trainer, specializing in communication, negotiation, and resolving complex multi-party conflicts, including community, grievance and workplace disputes, collective bargaining negotiations, organizational and school conflicts, sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits, and public policy disputes, and in designing preventative conflict resolution systems for organizations. He is a nationally recognized speaker and a published author of many journal articles and several books, including Mediation: Revenge and the Magic of Forgiveness; Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution; and The Crossroads of Conflict: A Journey into the Heart of Dispute Resolution (www.Janispublications.com). He is co-author with Joan Goldsmith of Thank God It’s Monday! 14 Values We Need to Humanize the Way We Work, Resolving Conflicts at Work: 8 Strategies for Everyone on the Job (2nd Edition); Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict: Stories of Transformation and Forgiveness; The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy, and The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at Work. His next book, to be published in 2008, is titled Solving Chronic Global Conflicts: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice, and Terrorism.
His coaching, consulting, facilitation, and training practice includes work with leaders of public, private and non-profit organizations on effective communications, collaborative negotiation, relationship building, conflict resolution, leadership development, strategic planning, team building, and organizational change.
His university teaching includes law, mediation, history, political science, conflict studies, urban studies, and other social sciences at a number of colleges and universities including Southwestern University School of Law, Antioch University, Occidental College, USC, and UCLA. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law, and Harvard University School of Law, in the Program on Negotiation’s Insight Initiative. He has worked with conflicts in Austria, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, England, Georgia, India, Ireland, Japan, Latin America, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Ukraine, the former USSR, United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe, and is President and co-founder of Mediators Without Borders.
He served as an Administrative Law Judge for the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board and the Public Employment Relations Board, a Factfinder for the Public Employment Relations Board, and a Judge Pro Tem for the Superior Court of Los Angeles. He has been an Arbitrator for over twenty-five years in labor management disputes, and is a member of several arbitration panels.
He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley; J.D. from U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Law School; Ph.D. from U.C.L.A.; LLM from U.C.L.A. Law School; and did post-doctoral work at Yale University School of Law. He is a graduate of the National Judicial College in Reno. Nevada.

JOANNA KALOWSKI is an Australian mediator and facilitator specialising in dispute resolution, organisational development, management training and judicial education, and has worked for over twenty years in Australia and New Zealand, as well as in Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and India. Over the last seven years, Joanna has also run workshops for mediation professionals in Italy, France, Germany, England and Switzerland.

Joanna has mediated in over 300 cases, including indigenous land claims, environmental matters, community involvement in public infrastructure projects, commercial, industrial and academic disputes.

Between 1988 and 1996, Joanna was a member of the Federal Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and was a member of the National Native Title Tribunal from 1996 to 1999. Joanna has recently stepped down as a director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre after a decade on the Board, and serves as an occasional member of the advisory council of the Indigenous Law Centre of the University of New South Wales. In 2001 she was Chairman of LEADR, Australia’s largest non-profit dispute resolution organization, and was nominated their Visiting Fellow for 2006 - 7.

An adult educator by background, Joanna was for four years Director of Community Relations and Education at the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board, and also served on the Ethics Review Committee (Human Subjects) of Macquarie University, the National Population Council advising the Minister for Immigration, and the NSW Board of Adult Education. She was a Director of Sydney Dance Company for three years and foundation Chair of the first Australian Foodbank from 1992 to 1995.

Joanna speaks fluent French, and also speaks German and Italian. In 2002, she was appointed to the Geneva-based World International Property Organisation’s Panel of Neutrals, and in 2003 to the Centre de Mediation et d’Arbitrage de Paris, where she lives and works for part of each year. In 2008, Joanna joined the International Mediation Institute (IMI) as a member of its Independent Standards Commission.

Academic qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Sydney University 1967
Diploma of Education Sydney University 1968

Present occupation
Mediator and judicial educator

Professional Memberships
Mediation and Training Alternatives (MATA) UK
Centre de Mediation et d’Arbitrage de Paris (CMAP)
World International Property Organisation (WIPO - Geneva) Panel of Neutrals
LEADR Australia: Advanced Panel member and 2006-7 Freehills Visiting Fellow
International Mediation Institute

Directorships held
Public Interest Advocacy Centre : 1995 - 2005
The Sydney Foodbank (Chair, Director, Advisory Council) : 1992 - 1995
Indigenous Law Centre Advisory Council (UNSW) : 1999 - 2003
Police Ethnic Communities Advisory Council : 2000 - 2002
LEADR – Director, later Chairman : 1999 – 2001
Sydney Dance Company Director : 1995 - 1998
Macquarie University Senate Ethics Committee : 1986 - 1997
National Population Council of Australia : 1992 -1994
NSW Board of Adult Education : 1982 – 1986

Statutory appointments
Member, National Native Title Tribunal : 1996 - 1999
Member, Federal Administrative Appeals Tribunal : 1988 – 1997

Legal and judicial education workshop leader for

1. Family Court of Australia – Less Adversarial Trials pilot (2004 - ongoing)
2. New Zealand Judicial Commission - Courtroom communication workshop (2008)
3. National Judicial College of Australia – judicial orientation and training (ongoing)
4. Judicial Settlement Conferencing pilot, Family Court of Australia, 2001 (ongoing)
5. Judicial College (Victoria) – judicial officers’ training
6. Institute of Judicial Administration strategic planning 2003
7. Judges retreat - High Court of New Zealand 1996
8. Mediation workshop: judges of Thai Intellectual Property Court 1999

Mediation trainer and workshop leader in:

1. Formal accreditation programs (LEADR Australia) for judges, lawyers and other professionals across Australia and New Zealand 1991 - 2002, including Thailand in 1999, India and Singapore in 1998, Hong Kong in 1996.
2. Advanced mediator training for European mediators, Umbria, 2005.

Mediator or facilitator in over 300 cases including industrial, commercial, environmental and Native Title matters. Many of these are of considerable public and political sensitivity, and include:

1. Parramatta Rail Link: Independent Chair of three community liaison groups
2. Cross-City Tunnel: Independent Facilitator of two groups (2003)
3. Disposal by Federal Government of former submarine site, HMAS Platypus, a one-year public partnering process involving community representatives, Federal Department of Defence, North Sydney Council and architectural consultants
4. Consultations over future of Sydney icon, Luna Park
5. Consultations over draft plan for the city of Sydney
6. Proposed changes to NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Act
7. Future of Jervis Bay
8. Construction and Demolition Industry Waste Round Table

Typical facilitations and workshops

1. Freehills Patents and Trade Marks Group strategic planning
2. University of Western Sydney Law School retreat
3. Clayton Utz: national business development group
4. national partners strategy workshop
5. Departments of Health and Community Services: Gosford co-location project
6. Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture and Trauma: negotiation workshop

PUBLICATIONS

Article on Native Title Mediation in Betrifft Justiz, 2007

Australia in Context: The Cross-Cultural Imperative
Cultural Dimensions - Approaches to Diversity Training in Australia
Human Rights Commission of Australia, 1999

In a manner of speaking: a cross-cultural view of mediation
Commercial Dispute Resolution Journal
Volume 2 Number 3 April 1996

Managing for Change
NSW University IPACE Institute, 1992

Considering cross-cultural issues: a rights framework
in proceedings, National conference on cross-cultural staff development
Flinders University, 1992

Women in management
in series The Emerging Manager
NSW University IPACE Institute, 1991

Migrant workers, equal opportunities and information at work
in proceedings, Migrant Workers, Information and Human Rights
UNESCO Conference, Victoria, 1988
A decade of achievement: making rights work
NSW Anti-Discrimination Board, 1987
Girls of non-English-speaking background
in Education, Gender and Ethnicity, 1987
Ethnocentrism, Racism and Prejudice
in Adult Education in Multicultural Australia Sydney C.A.E. 1987
Living together: more than just a bicentennial slogan
in Liberal Forum Occasional Papers No 2, 1987
Racism and prejudice as barriers to peace
in Curriculum Exchange Volume 4 No 2, 1986
Women in a multicultural society
in Migration Action Volume 8 no 1, 1986
Role of community workers in a multicultural society
NSW University, sound recording, 1986

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Mediating across cultures: values and attitudes post September 11
World Mediation Forum November 2001
Beyond deal-making: mediation in the public arena
Fifth National Mediation Conference May 2000

Public Issues Mediation
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Conference April 1999

Mediation in cross-cultural perspective
6th International ADR Conference Christchurch October 1998

From the margins to the centre: cross-cultural skills in social issues mediation
Paper presented National Mediation Conference, April 1998

Australia in context: the cross-cultural imperative
Australian Cross-Cultural Training Conference
Human Rights Commission, Sydney, November 8 1996

In a manner of speaking: a cross-cultural view of mediation
New Zealand Law Conference, April 1996 and
Mediation and Cultural Diversity Conference, January 1996

Cross-cultural issues in family mediation
National Conference on Family Mediation, June 95

Socio-linguistic issues and evidence
S.A. Legal Services Commission conference, August 21 1994

Centrality of a cross-cultural approach in service delivery
International Conference: Communication, Culture & Organisational Change
UTS, Sydney, 1993

Considering cross-cultural issues: a rights framework
National conference: Cross-cultural staff development Flinders Uni S.A. 1992

Communities: evolution and revolution
Keynote address, Australian Catholic Universities conference, 1991

Bill Marsh is one of Europe’s most experienced commercial mediators, and adviser on mediation to a range of governments and businesses.

He is Founder and Director of Conflict Management International (CMI), a consulting firm specialising in advising governments and businesses in dispute resolution systems and reform.

Bill is independently ranked as one of the top ten commercial mediators in the UK. He mediates a wide cross-section of commercial disputes, both in the UK and internationally, involving most fields of law and business, and numerous countries, amongst parties which include national governments, public companies, public bodies/authorities, private companies and firms, and individuals.

Bill has served as mediation adviser to the Governments of Russia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. He is Founder and Chairman of the Inter-Governmental Mediation Workshop, a private forum for 20 Central and Eastern European Governments to share experiences of mediation reform. He has represented UK government at United Nations (UNCITRAL) negotiations, and advised the European Commission on development of mediation amongst the EU Member States. He also advised the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) on, and designed and implemented, the FSA’s mediation scheme for enforcement cases - the first use of mediation by a UK regulator.

He trains and speaks widely on mediation and dispute resolution issues.

Books and articles written on Mediation include The ADR Practice Guide – Commercial Dispute Resolution (Tottel, 1995, 2000 and 2007), Mediators on Mediation (Sweet & Maxwell, 2005), and numerous articles on mediation – for example “ADR and the English Courts” (February 2004), “Dispute Systems in Russia – Some lessons in Design” (December 2000), “Conflict in Business – you can handle it, but do you?” (November 2005).

Before becoming a mediator, Bill practised as a commercial lawyer in the UK and Paris. He was formerly Executive Director of CEDR in London. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Centre for Reconciliation, Coventry.

Further details can be found at www.cmi-consulting.com and at www.independentmediators.co.uk