IMI 10th Anniversary

IMI is a non-profit public interest initiative to drive transparency and high competency standards into mediation practice across all fields, worldwide

All the content in this site was originally drawn together and developed by Ozan Guner of Global Mediators and Negotiators in 2017, in celebration of 10 years of IMI. We at IMI greatly appreciate his assistance.

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?

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 providing 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 and information

Testimonials

Lord Woolf of Barnes
Lord Chief Justice of Eng. & Wales, 2000-2005

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 internationally; users of mediation need to see these standards operating effectively. More and better information must be made available by individual mediators about their skills, capabilities and personalities. Quality and Transparency together will enable mediation to grow.

Kenneth Cloke
President of Mediator Beyond Borders

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 mediation

Kehinde Aina
Director, African Mediation Association

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 Industry watch, for without such, mediation remains an endangered species

Roger M. Deitz
Mediator; Past Chair of the ADR Committee

10 Years of IMI

Vision

Mission

Why? How? What?

Testimonials