International Accreditation Programme
The International Accreditation Programme is an Advanced Mediator Skills Training, to enhance and extend a mediator’s international practice and to achieve CEDR-Accredited status.
What is the International Accreditation Programme?
CEDR's International Accreditation Programme is for highly experienced, practising mediators who want to differentiate themselves in the market and work in complex, high-level international conflicts and disputes.
The programme also includes assessment for CEDR's leading international mediator accreditation for non-accredited participants.
This training is exclusively for practising mediators as it will focus on advanced conflict engagement skills and processes requiring a high degree of experience. Places are limited and participation is subject to eligibility.
Book onto the 2024 International Accreditation ProgrammeProgramme Overview
Pre-Course.
Application Process & Pre-Engagement
The International Accreditation Programme is subject to an application to ensure participants have suitable levels of experience. There is also a pre-course curriculum with reading and audio-visual learning modules on CEDR's Virtual Campus.
Day 1.
Introduction & Skills Refresher
Practical sessions with teaching and coaching focussed on: positions and interests, negotiation styles, active listening, bargaining skills and challenging parties. Focus on how to apply these skills in your mediation practice and in different international contexts.
Day 2.
Teaching & Practice Day
Focus on how to break deadlock and conclude complex negotiations. Experienced practitioners will provide insights and case studies on how to manage complex multi-party, multi-issue, multi-stakeholder negotiations in topics such as hostage negotiation, labour disputes, class actions and peacemaking negotiations.
Day 3.
Coaching Day
A full day of live, simulated coaching sessions accompanied by real-time coaching followed by extensive feedback.
Day 4.
Assessment Day
Assessment for CEDR's leading international mediator accreditation.
Post Course.
Assessment and Invitation
Post-course assessment and personal reflection through CEDR's Virtual Campus. You will also be invited to become a part of CEDR's global MyCEDR Mediator network with opportunities for further professional development.
Day 2 Spotlight
On day 2 of this programme, we offer you a series of condensed power sessions from different conflict experts.
- Hostage and Crisis Negotiation. One and a half hours in the 'hot seat', experiencing the drama and tension of how professional hostage negotiators actually deal with a terrorist.
- Multi-party, Multi-issue, multi-stakeholder, multi-national negotiations. Learn from an internationally renowned mediator, author and trainer and a renowned facilitator of many large multi-party relationship building and transformation processes, sharing the lessons they've learned negotiating South Africa's largest class-action dispute.
- Peacemaking and Business Human Rights. Hear from a specialist in both the negotiation of international violent conflicts and peacemaking - who authored 8 books on these topics – and who has profound experience in mediating a range of political, community, and policing conflicts and a renowned international mediator with experience in Business Human Rights Mediation, about their work on a current project in Southern Africa as well as their work on supporting peacemaking efforts in DRC and other regions.
What will You Learn on the Course:
- Facilitate effective information exchange
- Advanced bargaining skills
- Robustly challenging parties
- Overcoming apparent deadlock
- Designing effective engagement processes
- Working with different cultural considerations
- Working with and applying CEDR's flexible framework
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Who You Will Learn From
The programme is led by a combination of commercial mediators and international facilitators from both CEDR and other organisations. You will also learn from a number of international conflict engagement specialists from the world of human rights, peacemaking, industrial relations and hostage and crisis negotiation.
More information on your trainers can be found below.
Felicity Steadman, CEDR Mediator and Head of Training Faculty
Felicity Steadman, CEDR Mediator and Head of Training Faculty
Felicity Steadman has been a professional in the field of dispute resolution for over 20 years. After a distinguished career in South Africa as a mediator and arbitrator she was trained and accredited by CEDR in 2003.
Philip Williams, Former Hostage & Crisis Negotiator and CEDR Trainer
Philip Williams, Former Hostage & Crisis Negotiator and CEDR Trainer
Working under pressure in places such as Libya, Iraq and Syria: Former international hostage negotiator, Phil Williams, took the delegates through the scenario of negotiating with terrorist groups and how to make progress in impossible circumstances.
Susanne Schuler
Susanne Schuler
Susanne is an experienced business and intercultural facilitator, conflict mediator and coach. Her legal studies, business experience and her work in diversity combine effectively in her mediation and consultancy role.
Dr Andrzej Grossman, Principal Consultant & Mediator at CEDR
Dr Andrzej Grossman, Principal Consultant & Mediator at CEDR
Andrzej (Andy) is a member of CEDR’s leadership team and a recognised conflict prevention and resolution consultant, mediator, coach and trainer working internationally. Since joining CEDR in 1999 he has served in a number of senior management and leadership roles.
Wolf von Kumberg, International Mediator & Arbitrator
Wolf von Kumberg, International Mediator & Arbitrator
Wolf is a dual qualified lawyer (Canada and England) mediator, arbitrator and dispute board member, who has spent his 30 year career as a senior legal executive with Litton Industries Inc. and Northrop Grumman Corporation dealing with international legal and compliance issues in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Deborah David, Mediator & Arbitrator
Deborah David, Mediator & Arbitrator
After 25 years as a commercial and tort litigation lawyer in the United States, Deborah began her mediation career in 2000 when she joined JAMS in Southern California. Having moved with her family to the United Kingdom in 2002, Deborah was accredited by CEDR in the Spring of 2003
John Brand
John Brand
Over the past 30 years, he has arbitrated and mediated many large commercial and employment disputes and he regularly facilitated negotiation, strategic planning and transformation processes. He was a member of the International Labour Organisation’s team of international experts appointed to design mediation training for developing countries and he regularly trained mediators from countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and South America.
Tim Elliott, Lawyer & Mediator
Tim Elliott, Lawyer & Mediator
During my nearly 20 years of litigation and transactional practice both in law firms and within legal departments of Fortune 500 companies, I have seen time, money, and people resources consumed by litigation. Trial can be appropriate for some cases, but most cases should—and do—resolve well before trial. Mediation offers a way to resolve conflict with confidentiality, creativity, mutual respect, and a much higher level of control over the process and the outcome versus litigation, and at far less cost.
Dr Mark Anstey, Senior Academy Associate of the Clingendael Institute and an Emeritus Professor of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Dr Mark Anstey, Senior Academy Associate of the Clingendael Institute and an Emeritus Professor of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Mark Anstey (D Phil) is a Senior Academy Associate of the Clingendael Institute and an Emeritus Professor of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University where he was Director of the Labour Relations Unit (1987-2008). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiations (PIN) Program.
Dr Zaza El Sheik Johnson
Dr Zaza El Sheik Johnson
Zaza is dually qualified as a medical doctor and solicitor, as well as being a highly experienced mediator and International Commercial Arbitrator (CIArb).
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