MEDIATION IN MALAYSIA: IS IT FACILITATIVE, EVALUATIVE OR TRANSFORMATIVE?
REMOVING HANDICAPS TO THE WIDESPREAD USE OF MEDIATION IN MAJOR COMMERCIAL/INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES
China's Xi sidesteps SE Asia pressure over South China Sea disputes
Mediation can keep the peace between disputing neighbours
Parental alienation leaves bitter taste
Resolving domestic conflict in South East Asia: how to build a sustainable peace (WP1359)
These traditional dispute settlement organs gradually evolved into tribunals and were accorded official recognition when the Native Courts Ordinance was promulgated in 1907. This ordinance established native tribunals which were intended to serve each of the ethnic groups in Kenya. The Chief Native Commissioner...
West African leaders are to head to Gambia to try to persuade incumbent President Yahya Jammeh to agree “to leave office” after his defeat at the ballot box, according to a Senegalese foreign ministry source. The delegation headed by Liberian leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace laureate...
President Jacob Zuma has welcomed a decision by African Union (AU) leaders to launch peace mediation efforts to resolve the political and security crisis in Libya. The President has concluded his visit to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa where he attended an emergency meeting on Libya. Islamic State...
By Ndimara Tegambwage I like mediation where “guided talking” could move mountains, bend hearts of hitherto irreconcilable giants and cause night and day filter into each other as a matter of time and without the slightest shriek. The latest mediation recorded in Tanzania and made known to the Public...
On 21–22 October 2015, the African Union (AU), in collaboration with the Government of Namibia, hosted the Sixth AU High-level Retreat of Special Envoys and Mediators on the Promotion of Peace, Security and Stability in Africa in Windhoek, Namibia. Supported by the African Centre for the Constructive...
Attracted by the vast business opportunities in African countries, over the past few years there has been a significant increase in the number of Chinese companies investing in the continent. This boom of Chinese investment has boosted the growth rate of a number of African economies and the China-Africa...
Liesel Louw-Vaudran of the Institute for Security Studies looks at China’s role in maintaining peace and security in war-torn South Sudan. China has had a significant business presence in Africa for some time now, but their role in peacekeeping is fairly new – so is their attempt to serve as mediators...
By Shannon Tiezzi, As mediators try yet again to jumpstart stalled peace talks between warring factions in South Sudan, the world will get to see China playing an unfamiliar role: that of lead mediator in another country’s internal conflict. Usually, China’s insistence on non-interference...
By Bill Marsh (Editor), Bill Marsh Mediator Last month, Al Jazeera carried a piece called “‘Mama Boko Haram’ grasps for peace in Nigeria”. It detailed the activities of Aisha Wakil (pictured above), a Nigerian lawyer who has become a de facto mediator between Boco Haram and the Nigerian government...
