Call for paper - "European Conference on Cross-Border Mediation“

European Conference on Cross Border Mediation Cross-Border Florence/Italy October 20th – 21st, 2011 Hilton Florence Metropole Organisation: International Mediation Alliance (IMA) with support from Conference is co-financed by the European Commission’s Civil Justice 2007 2013 programme financed 2007-2013 This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author and the Commission cannot be reflects held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MEDIATION CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: April, 30th 2011 The International Mediation Alliance (IMA), aims at promoting the development of cross-border mediation and harmonizing at the European level conflict resolution methods in their various fields of application. In this perspective, and to provide an opportunity for sharing information, academic research and know-how necessary for the development of mediation across Europe, IMA organizes on October 20th -21st, 2011, in Florence, Italy, an international conference on: "Cross-Border Mediation" This conference will be composed of plenary presentations and a series of workshops held by practitioners and researchers from all over Europe. Workshops can focus in either of the following themes: • legal issues in cross-border mediations o the EU directive and its implementation in different European countries o enforceability of agreements in cross-border mediations • intercultural issues o mediation techniques and mediation styles in an intercultural context o role of the mediator • cross-border mediation in different fields of practice o mediation and business (customer-supplier-relationships, labour relationships) o family mediation o mediation, environment and territories • co-mediation (techniques, role of the mediator) • online-mediation (tools, techniques, ...) These workshops should be practice-oriented and interactive and can gather viewpoints from researchers and practitioners. Workshops may be managed by one person or more, in different formats (debate, multi-speaker presentations, co-organization, etc.). Each workshop will last 1.5 hour and be held either in English or in Italian (for other languages, translation will be necessary). Contribution proposals will be selected by the conference scientific committee based on their intellectual contribution and their originality. The committee shall ensure their diversity in terms of This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. language, geographical origin and subject matter. After the conference, the scientific committee may propose the publication of proceedings. The conference organizers do not have the necessary funds to reimburse the contributor’s travel expenses. Each contributor will then have to get to the conference by its own means. For more information please contact Ms. Irka Fuerle Project Manager +49 511 220647-81 i.fuerle@culturecommunication.de Please send your proposals latest by April 30th, 2011 to: cfp@culturecommunication.de This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.