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The International Summer School on Dispute Resolution offers a class on Intercultural Negotiation/Mediation and some lectures giving a brief introduction to International Arbitration.
Program participants of the 2019 Summer School will get access to the reading material and other information in regard to the upcoming program following this link ...
Intercultural Negotiation / Mediation
This
course is the center piece of the program and, in conjunction with additional
lectures and presentations offered during the 2-week period, will qualify
for mediator certification in most American states.
The central features of international arbitration
will be examined briefly in some evening lectures. These include:
http://www.rewi.europa-uni.de/de/studium/master/mediation/index.html
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Mediation,
like all other methods of "Alternative Dispute Resolution", has been developed
in the USA to resolve disputes outside the public court system. The aim
of all the different ADR methods is to work out a lasting solution of
any given conflict between the parties involved. They try to avoid
disadvantages inherent in the regular court system and offer a possible
way to new, alternative solutions, which are not within the competence
of a judge. Mediation, as one method of ADR, uses the mediator, a third
party without any interest in the outcome of the dispute between the parties,
to guide and help the parties to come to a solution of their problem.
Providing the standard training in both the theory and skills of negotiation and mediation, the course will be taught with simulated exercises and group interchanges. One
major objective is to develop negotiation and mediation skills 
in cross-cultural
business transactions involving participants of different nationalities
and diverging expectations. Even experienced mediators in the U.S., where
the process has advanced rapidly in recent years, encounter unexpected
pitfalls when applying their skills in mediations between parties from
different countries.
Ad
hoc arbitration & institutional arbitration; Arbitral Institutions;
the Law of International Arbitration, Reasons to arbitrate; the Arbitration
Agreement (Function, Content, Important choices, Formal validity, Arbitrability,
Defective clauses); the Arbitral Tribunal; the Arbitration Proceedings;
the Courts: assistance and intervention; Making of the Award; Enforcement
of Awards. 
For
those interested in further studies, the Summer School is an optional
part of the postgraduate master-program in mediation offered by the Europa
Universität Viadrina in cooperation with the Institut für Anwaltsrecht
at Humboldt-Universität. Successful completion
of the Summer School program counts towards the Master's degree. For more
information, please contact: