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FIRST-EVER WORLD MEDIATION SUMMIT HOSTED BY FMCS

Immediately preceding the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service’s 50th Anniversary observance, the Service hosted the first-ever World Mediation Summit, bringing together top officials from 16 of the world’s 20 national mediation agencies in Washington, DC to share experiences, ideas and knowledge. The summit included plenary sessions and workshops addressing the varied roles and responsibilities of mediation agencies and labor mediators throughout the world, and information-sharing about mediation and conflict resolution in nations with very different labor-management systems.

Several of these national mediation organizations were patterned after the U.S. model (created by Congress in 1947) and others were established with technical assistance from FMCS. Mediation leaders from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, Poland and South Africa participated in the World Summit. Government, business and labor officials from 17 other nations also attended the two-day conference.

Congratulations to Jim Power, Mery Skolochenko and intern Kara Zivin for an outstanding job.

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Participants in the first World Mediation Summit. Panel discussion led by John Houghman, Chairman, Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service, Great Britain.
 

 

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