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IMI TIMELINE
IMI is a non-profit public interest initiative to drive transparency and high competency
standards into mediation practice across all fields, worldwide
standards into mediation practice across all fields, worldwide
Vision
Professional Mediation Worldwide:
Promoting Consensus & Access to Justice
Mission
• Set and achieve high mediation standards
• Convene stakeholders and parties
• Promote understanding and adoption of mediation
• Disseminate skills for parties, counsel and mediators
Why? How? What? IMI
Why?
To inspire the use of mediation
To remove user doubts over quality
To enable users to control their outcomes
To make mediation the normal way to resolve disputes
How?
By celebrating knowledge, skills and experience
By enabling user experience to be shared
By ensuring greater transparency
By objective information
What?
Establishing the highest standards worldwide
Tools to find the most suitable mediators
Tools to help all users resolve disputes
Promoting mediation convincingly
Convening the right people
Quality & Information
Mediation has come a long way, but still has much further to go. The field now needs to evolve quickly into a true profession. High minimum practice and ethical standards need to be set, made transparent and achieved more...
IMI has undertaken a task of immense importance, not merely in developing uniform standards of practice for conflict resolution, but in creating the foundation for an enormous increase in international more...
Of all the efforts at making mediation mainstream, of all the mammoth initiatives and giant strides by leading proponents, of all our success stories, nothing compares with the IMI vision of standard setting and more...
I sincerely welcome the recent incorporation of the International Mediation Institute (IMI) in The Netherlands. As the first global, non-governmental organisation that will enable certification of the competency of more...
In an age of globalisation, IMI offers local mediators a global voice, national bodies an international benchmark, and users of mediation confidence in the mediation more...
Two undeniable facts underpin the IMI and its extraordinary mission: a commitment to raise the bar of quality dispute resolution, and leadership by example. This organization reflects the substantial practical benefits more...
IMI holds the promise of delivering real value to disputants and their professional advisers, to mediation providers and trainers, to judges and arbitrators and to teachers and governments. There is advantage in it for everyone. more...
I congratulate IMI in establishing a valuable platform for the global mediation standards. As the professionalism of mediation is raised, I believe mediation will claim its rightful place as a legitimate and viable way of more...
As a user of mediation services I am an enthusiastic supporter of the IMI effort to establish a universal standard for Mediators. It will make the choice of a qualified Mediator to assist with our disputes so much more...
While acknowledging all the benefits and values that IMI can bring to mediation practice internationally, it really is just the beginning of the exciting process of mindset change that people need to experience so that more...
IMI is valuable for the private sector. It will bring a substantial increase in trust and opportunities to identify a professional mediator, even in those parts of the world that lack the presence of a professional more...
I applaud this thoughtful initiative to seek to introduce a scheme which will help mediators around the world to raise their own and others' standards and to make sure that the services of mediators are available, understood more...
The establishment of the IMI will help create international standards for mediators, a critical step towards enhancing the professional level of international mediation.
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Resolving disputes by way of mediation has been inherent in the Confucian culture, and my colleagues and I have been long-time advocates for mediating international commercial disputes. more...
