IMI is delighted to announce the recognition of Amani Communities Africa as meeting IMI’s competency criteria required of a Certified Mediator Training Program (CMTP) to deliver training in person and online!
Consequently, individuals who successfully complete their CMTP will be eligible to become IMI Qualified Mediators should they choose to apply for such recognition with IMI.
Visit their website at https://www.acafrica.or.ke/
About Amani Communities Africa
Amani Communities Africa (ACA) is a Kenyan non-governmental organization dedicated to empowering individuals, groups, and communities to experience and practice peace. Founded in 2001, ACA employs a tri-pronged approach to peace, focusing on intra-personal, inter-personal, and community levels. ACA works with diverse groups, including women, youth, children, professionals, institutions, governments, corporations, religious actors, and traditional leaders, to strengthen their capacities in healing, mediation, and conflict transformation. Through homegrown and contextualized programs, ACA aims to create a more peaceful and sustainable world. Our Programs:
• Intra-Personal Peace and Healing Program: This program focuses on personal peace and healing, recognizing that peace begins within oneself. Through introspection and self-discovery, participants learn tools and practices to cultivate inner peace and well- being.
• Inter-Personal Mediation and Conflict Transformation Programs: ACA offers certified mediation training and peacebuilding courses to help individuals and groups achieve peaceful and harmonious coexistence.
• Community Programs: In collaboration with partners, ACA works with local communities to build sustainable development models through programs such as peer mediation in schools, women and youth empowerment initiatives, and greening and community resilience programs. Our Flagship Program: 40-Hour Mediation and Conflict Transformation Certification Course ACA’s flagship program, the 40-Hour Mediation and Conflict Transformation Certification Course, equips participants with the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to prevent, mediate and transform a wide range of conflicts, including workplace, family, business, and community settings.
Congratulations to Amani Communities Africa!
IMI Certified Mediator Training Programs, or CMTPs, meet international competency criteria for mediation training excellence. Individuals who complete CMTPs are able to become recognised as ‘IMI Qualified Mediators’. CMTPs can be searched here.
As of June 2021, IMI decided to recognize training delivered in part or entirely online as meeting the standards required of IMI CMTPs. Therefore, the Training Criteria now applies equally to programs that deliver training in-person, in hybrid formats, and online. View IMI’s training criteria.
The minimum standards for training that IMI has set has been accepted by the European Commission for Efficiency of Justice – “CEPEJ“ as the minimum European standard (and indirectly by the EU which accepts and looks onto Council of Europe standards – please see https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/european-union and the Memorandum of Understanding between the Council of Europe and the European Union). As such, IMI is the only organisation in the world whose standards have been adopted by an intergovernmental standard-setting organisation.
IMI is the only organisation in the world that transcends local jurisdictions to develop global, professional standards for mediators and advocates involved in collaborative dispute resolution and negotiation.
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