The International Mediation Institute is joining The Hague Humanity Hub & Municipality of The Hague in another hybrid edition of the peace&justice café. On 8 June we will explore People-Centred Justice: Achieving impact at scale.
As Roundabout hosts, within a 45-minute session, IMI will host a discussion on Mediation as a Tool for People-Centred Justice. We will focus on leadership and international people-centered justice, with the aim of emerging best practices and ideas from across the world to solve the submission problem and further increase the use of mediation.
We know that the benefits of mediation are multifold: it is a process that can substantially contribute to peaceful, inclusive, safe, and just societies, allowing people to actively participate in the process, be heard and have control of the outcome and even improve their relationships.
However, the paradox of mediation is that it is universally praised and promoted, but still vastly underused. This is due to the “ submission problem”: mediation can only work if the parties can be convinced to participate. The submission problem is inherent to every dispute. Solving debt problems requires the cooperation of creditors and debtors. Victims, or the prosecutors acting on their behalf, need perpetrators to cooperate. A divorce happens between two people who decide they do not get along well and want to legally separate. For parties to submit to mediation, we, therefore, need to solve the submission problem: bring all parties to the table.
The literature on mandatory mediation is extensive. It mostly finds that voluntary mediation leads to a settlement at a slightly higher rate than mandatory mediation. The number of disputes resolved by a mandatory mediation programme (with sufficient capacity) is vastly higher than the number of disputes resolved by a voluntary program, however. This is why in this roundabout session we will focus on leadership and international people-centered justice, with the aim of emerging best practices and ideas from across the world to solve the submission problem and further increase the use of mediation.
Date and Time:
Thursday, 8 June 2023, 15:00 – 18:00 CEST (find your time here!)
Hybrid Event: Please note that IMI-facilitated sessions will be held exclusively online
Join IMI’s hosts Paula-Marie Drouin, Founder and Director of ADR International Group Inc. and ADR Learning Institute, an IMI CMTP and Ivana Ninčić, IMI’s Executive Director in this facilitated network roundabout session – an informal conversation to emerge best practices and ideas from across the world to solve the submission problem and further increase the use of mediation.
Has the government, or the courts or industry from your jurisdiction of practice implemented a successful mediation project or practice?
Please join us in the discussion and participate in our Public Consultation on Best Practices in Mandating Mediation and Solving the Mediation “Submission Problem” via the link below:
Background Information
The peace&justice café is The Hague Humanity Hub’s premier networking event series for cross-sectoral connection and collaboration for a more peaceful and just world. This event brings together peacebuilders, justice innovators, researchers, humanitarians, impact entrepreneurs, policy makers and other changemakers from The Hague and around the world.
By strengthening connections, we can come up with concrete solutions to today’s complex and urgent problems and thus increase collective impact.
For more info please see here.
