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Posted: Monday 26 November, 2018 at 2:31 PM

IMPACT Justice trains 24 persons in Advanced Community Mediation

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By: IMPACT Justice, Press Release

    (BRIDGETOWN, November 26, 2018) -- The Canadian-funded project Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT Justice) Project sponsored an Advanced Community Mediation Workshop at the Regional Headquarters Building of the University of the West Indies’ Mona Campus, Jamaica on November 15-17, 2018, under its Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) component. 

     

    The twenty-four participants comprised persons who had been trained by IMPACT Justice in basic Community Mediation and had demonstrated an aptitude and interest in being trained at the more advanced level. The diverse group of participants came from seven Caribbean countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Vincent & the Grenadines and St. Kitts & Nevis, and included academics, attorneys-at-law, clergymen, police officers, probation officers and social workers. 

    Topics covered during the three-day workshop included gender and diversity issues, techniques in the settlement of family and property disputes, fees and pro bono services and the establishment of community mediation committees and service points. Participants engaged in role plays with fact patterns mirroring many of the issues they would face in practice. 

    Since 2015, IMPACT Justice has trained 599 persons (370 females and 229 males) from across 10 CARICOM Member States in basic mediation, and has already assisted with the establishment of interim Mediation Committees in Dominica and Grenada. As the project moves forward, it is hoped that those trained will be pivotal in the establishment of community mediation service points and networks in their respective countries. 

    The Project’s Model CARICOM Community Mediation Bill provides a template for CARICOM countries seeking to develop community mediation frameworks in order to improve their citizens’ access to justice and reduce court backlogs. 
     
     

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