IIAM Community Mediation Service (IIAM CMS) provides an important service to the community. The program is intended to contribute to the happiness and harmony of the community. With the right support this can expand sufficiently to meet pressing community needs for conflict prevention and conflict resolution. Hapless litigants would get a platform near home to settle their cases without the trappings of a court. Through a system that resolves disputes before it requires adjudication, it is hoped the legal system will be freed up to deal with more serious cases. The mission is to provide neutral and safe dispute resolution opportunities through which individuals are empowered to work collaboratively to develop creative and mutually agreeable solutions to conflicts.

IIAM CMS can address the following issues:

• diverting cases from court;
• building bridges between communities; and
• transforming society into a more tolerant, understanding people.

Setting up of IIAM Community Mediation Clinics in all districts of each state with a view to mediate all disputes will bring about a profound change in the Indian Legal system. Conflict management programs with the formation of such clinics will serve to defray tensions in societies and prevent them from erupting into violence.

These Mediation clinics would function with an efficient team of mediators who are selected from the local community itself. The people so selected would be trained by IIAM, and a certificate of recognition would be issued. The mediators so selected will be persons who shall be having a good repute in the local area to whom people shall have faith and shall include educated youth, ladies and elders.

The program has the potential to shape powerful conflict transformation partnerships. Such approaches often have the power to heal even profound social wounds, so that the system can become a vehicle for creating a loving and caring world.

The IIAM Community Mediation Service is endorsed by the International Mediation Institute (IMI) at the Hague, Netherlands, which is formed to generate confidence in and much enhanced understanding and usage of the mediation process among businesses and other disputants by encouraging high standards of training, by certifying high competency standards of mediators throughout the world.

The mission of IIAM Mediation Clinics:

• Utilizing law as a modality for healing and helping, not only for resolving problems;
• Focusing on the future and reconciling relationships — listening, forgiving, completing, and moving on — rather than simply looking to the past and punishing transgressions;
• Believing in peace-making.

Like to become a Community Mediator?

Are you willing to become a Community Mediator for our clinics? It takes courage and patience to take up the responsibility of becoming a mediator. Apart from the acceptance and honour given by the community, it also gives absolute satisfaction of becoming peace builders in our community.

Who qualifies to become a community Mediator? They have to have the fear of God, and a concern for humanity, and be guided by love and stand for peace. They are respected and command an audience. They have the experience in doing service. They are, above all, trusted.

IIAM offers free orientation for mediators. The Training programs at IIAM offer you the opportunity to learn what is necessary to become a mediator yourself. For more details.

Partnering with IIAM Community Mediation Service:

To promote the concept of IIAM Community Mediation Service, IIAM can associate or partner with organizations that promote peace building or conflict resolution in an effort to support peace and harmony.

To make our world a safe, sustainable, peaceful and prosperous place to live, Corporate houses can make an important contribution by adopting such Community Mediation Clinics. As a business opportunity and simultaneously to fulfill their corporate social responsibility, Corporates can adopt a long term approach in partnering with IIAM for a long term process of positive social transition.

The IIAM Community Mediation Service, which is a clearly defined mission and a vision statement combined with a sound implementation strategy and a plan of action firmly rooted in ground realities, can be developed in close collaboration as implementation partners, as part of a successful CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) program. A coherent CSR strategy based on integrity, sound values and long term approach offers clear business benefits to companies and contributes to the well being of society. As David Putnam has put it, it would work as a Social capital, which would be networks of cooperation in which people invest and from which they may ultimately derive benefits.

Be part of the IIAM Community Mediation Service, which is intended to resolve conflicts, promote social and communal harmony.

Partner with us to create a loving and caring world.

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