Links
You may find these links useful:
ADR Institute of Canada - a national, non-profit-making organisation which serves both practitioners and users of ADR services. The Institute’s comprehensive journal is published on the site along with regularly updated news reports, Canadian rules and protocols and practice tips.
ADR Now - run by the Advice Service Alliance, this provides information and guidelines on a variety of ADR processes, information on legal and civil procedures affecting these processes and a directory of UK ADR service providers.
Alliance for Peacebuilding - coalition of diverse organisations working together to build sustainable peace and security worldwide.
American Arbitration Association - offers up-to-date information on many dispute resolution processes, including mediation, arbitration, fact-finding, and other alternative dispute resolution processes.
American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section - information on a variety of dispute resolution processes and includes related reports by the ABA and details on court schemes through out the US.
Archie Zariski's Links for Conflict Work - An extensive mediation web referral site.
Association for Conflict Resolution - a very large professional organisation based in USA but with members throughout the world.
Cincinnati Academy of Collaborative Professionals - gives useful information on collaborative lawyering and its development throughout the USA and Canada.
Civil Mediation Council
Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding: A Selected Bibliography - a starting place for research on conflict resolution, dispute processing, and peacebuilding.
Conflict Resolution Info - a very resourceful site that offers information for parties to disputes, legal representatives, academics, teachers, ADR practitioners and students. The site contains news articles from around the world, details numerous ADR projects and initiatives and offers detailed information on many ADR processes, including mediation.
CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution - an alliance of global corporations, leading law firms, legal academics and selected public institutions. The site includes information on their public policy and research projects and the work of their sector-specific initiative groups. A section on ADR procedures and clauses is also included.
International Academy of Mediators - set up to define standards and qualifications for the professional mediator of commercial disputes and to promote the mediation process as the preferred means of resolving disputes.
International Association for Conflict Management - promotes the sharing of theory, research and experiences of US mediators.
International Bar Association - the world’s leading organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies.
International Listening Association - the professional organisation whose members are dedicated to learning more about the impact that listening has on all human activity.
International Mediation Institute - an international public policy initiative
LEADR - is an Australasian, not-for-profit membership organisation formed in 1989 to serve the community by promoting and facilitating the use of ADR.
Mediate - an outstanding mediation resource centre with thoughtful articles, newsletters and information. This includes some articles by John Sturrock.
Mediators Beyond Borders - a non profit group that seeks to partner with communities worldwide to build their conflict resolution capacity for preventing, resolving and healing from conflict.
National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution - supports and sustains the development of information technology applications, institutional resources, and theoretical and applied knowledge for better understanding and managing conflict.
Scottish Mediation Network - for more on mediation developments in other areas in Scotland.
University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium - directed by Guy and Heidi Burgess, was founded in 1988 as a multi-disciplinary centre for research and teaching about conflict and its transformation.