UIA 27th World Forum of Mediation Centres, Milan Italy
17-18.01.2020
The Acceleration of the Development of International Business Mediation after the Singapore Convention
The adoption, by the United Nations’ Member States, of the Singapore Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation offers economical actors a securing and efficient tool. It clearly frames mediation in the landscape of ADRs at a worldwide level. This tool, which completes regional and national judicial systems more and more favorable to mediation, should significatively contribute to the development of international mediation in the following years.
This round-table will get the speakers to talk about, notably, the stakes and interest of an international convention on the recognition of international settlement agreements resulting from mediation; the perception of various representative Member States parties to the Convention; the impacts of such a tool on the use of mediation in business relationships worldwide and other contexts.