Mission
Generate confidence in and much enhanced understanding and usage of the mediation process among businesses and other disputants by encouraging high standards of training, by certifying high competency standards of mediators throughout the world, and by aiding users to find suitable competent mediators quickly and easily in the most transparent ways.
Success will be measured by:
- IMI certification being accepted as the global mediator competency standard
- Enhancement of mediators professional standards
- Widespread adoption of high ethical standards
- Quality of feedback from users and certified mediators
- Increased use of IMI web-based certified mediator searching tools
- Mediation becoming synonymous with wider amicable dispute resolution methods
- Increased rate at which new users turn to mediation
- Successful establishment of mediation providers in new markets
- Increase in the number of dispute resolution courses offered to students
- Minimization of bureaucratic burdens on mediators
- Securing international government support for IMI mediation competency standards.
A vital characteristic of IMI initiative will be transparency, the soulmate of confidence. IMI will achieve transparency by:
- Making competency standards objective, easy to understand and accessible
- Welcoming widespread engagement by mediation users, the mediation and other professions, educationalists, governments and NGOs and adjudicators and providing technological means, such as weblogs, through which they can express their views and suggestions on mediator competency certification and other issues
- Having excellent open relationships with all quality mediation providers and trainers (rather than exclusive partnerships)
- Encouraging viewable Feedback Digests, prepared by independent providers, trainers and mentors, and video recitals by Certified Mediators of their resumes
- Sustaining and promoting local capacity to resolve disputes
- Remaining independent of the mediation provider market.