


EUROPEAN MEDIATION CONFERENCE
Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 2008
From
10.4.08 to 12.4.08 the European Mediation Conference took place in
Belfast. It was organized by the Scottish Mediation Network and
Mediation Northern Ireland. More than 400 participants attended the
conference from almost all European states and also from North America,
South Africa and from other parts of the world. The honorable guests
and lecturers included Martti Ahtisaari, Jan Egeland, John Paul
Lederach, Machteld Pel and others.
The conference was
dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the peace agreement in Northern
Ireland, called the Good Friday Agreement The topics that ran
throughout the conference included Development of Mediation Practice,
Linking and Networking (Public Awareness), Research and Evaluation,
Quality Assurance, European Dynamic, Difference, Division &
Diversity, Something fresh and new, learning from other valued
occupations, negotiators, therapists, mentors, etc. The topics refered
to different types of mediation including Family, Neighbour/community,
Peer mediation/schools, Workplace, Business/commercial,
Peace-building/international, Community Cohesion and Renewal, Court,
Planning & Environmental.
At the same time, the South
Eastern European Mediation Forum (SEEMF) had a session with the
national coordinators Srdan Šimac for Croatia, Jelena Aršic for Serbia,
Ivana Gajovic for Montenegro, Gordana Ristin and Simona Mlakar for
Slovenia and Dr. Juan Diaz for CSSP. The aim of the session was to
discuss the organisation of the Annual SEEMF Conference which will take
place in Zagreb in November 2008.
IV Regional Conference of The South Eastern European Mediation Forum (SEEMF)
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to cordially invite you to the
IV Regional Conference of The South Eastern European Mediation Forum
(SEEMF), to be held on November 6-8 2008 in Zagreb, Croatia.
The
Plenary Session of the Conference (Friday, November 7th, morning) is to
be held in Hotel Dubrovnik, Gajeva 1, and the workshops (Friday,
November 7th, afternoon, and Saturday, November 8th, morning) at four
locations in Zagreb (Croatian Mediation Association, Teslina 1;
Commercial Court in Zagreb, Petrinjska 8; High Commercial Court of the
Republic of Croatia, Berislaviceva 11; Hotel Dubrovnik, Gajeva 1).
For
the Conference participation it is required to fill in and e-mail the
enclosed registration form in English or Croatian to
seemfconference@gmail.com by October 25th 2008.
We are pleased to inform you that no registration fee is required for the participation at the Conference.
The
Plenary Session of the Conference is to be held in Croatian and English
with simultaneous translation, and individual workshops in the language
listed in the program, without translation.
The general workshops’ descriptions, workshops’ languages and brief Curriculum Vitae of the speakers are enclosed.
The
meetings of SEEMF coordinators are closed to the public, as is the
final lecture by Mr. Kenneth Cloke (Saturday, November 8th 2008 at
13:00 PM).
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions via e-mail at
iva.perin@mirenje.hr or marin.hlupic@mirenje.hr.
Sincerely,
Mr. Srdan Šimac Mr. Borislav Blaževic
SEEMF Chairman for 2008 President of the Croatian Mediation Association