Vision
By generating enhanced confidence in mediators and improved understanding of mediation, motivate fundamental positive changes in how businesses, professional advisers, educationalists, Governments and NGOs and adjudicators approach the resolution of disputes, principally by enabling them to change their perceptions and procurement skills from:.
- Win/Lose to Mutual Gain
- Litigation to Negotiation
- Risk to Opportunity
thereby positioning mediation and other negotiated processes as the preferred methods for resolving disputes and making a significant contribution to the advancement of international peace and harmony.
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.
