Seven months after opening its doors, the world's first intergovernmental mediation body announced its first resolved international commercial case — a charterparty chain dispute — before delegates from more than 60 jurisdictions.
As SIMC trainers ran an accreditation program for judges at the Federal Judicial Academy, the Chief Justice of Pakistan discussed ADR reform and backlog reduction with the visiting delegation.
Phnom Penh has initiated compulsory conciliation with Thailand under UNCLOS Annex V over the gas-rich Overlapping Claims Area — a rare real-world test of treaty-based facilitated settlement between states.
VIAC and the Vietnam Lawyers' Association staged a five-day, two-city program under the theme 'Arbitration & ADR: Embracing New Heights', with mediation on the main stage.
The Seoul High Court has scheduled an additional mediation session in the Chey Tae-won–Roh Soh-yeong asset division case, after the Supreme Court overturned a 1.38-trillion-won award.
From school peer mediation to water-leakage disputes, the Department of Justice's annual week showcased a city building mediation into everyday life — and finished with IOMed's global summit.
A special Lok Adalat at the Supreme Court this August will cap a country-wide push to resolve pending cases by consent — the boldest judicial embrace of amicable settlement since the Mediation Act 2023.
The UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation — signed in Singapore in 2019 — gives mediated settlements teeth across borders. Momentum keeps building across Asia and beyond.
Track ratificationsThe flagship empirical survey of how businesses and legal advisers actually use — and rate — international mediation, arbitration, litigation and hybrids. The most-cited data source on dispute resolution preferences produced in Asia.
The authoritative text and live status tracker for the convention that makes cross-border mediated settlement agreements directly enforceable — 74 signatories and 22 parties and counting.
The founding convention of the world's first intergovernmental mediation organization, in all six UN languages. The essential primary source on the decade's biggest institutional development in Asian mediation.
The benchmark study of dispute resolution user attitudes worldwide, with regional breakdowns in which Singapore and Hong Kong consistently rank among the top seats — vital context for where mediation sits in Asian users' toolkits.
An ADBI policy brief on embedding negotiation, mediation and arbitration into investment disputes across developing Asian economies, with case studies from Kazakhstan and India and recommendations for building ADR culture.
A clause-level analysis of India's first standalone mediation statute — pre-litigation, online and community mediation, the Mediation Council of India — notably flagging the Act's failure to implement the Singapore Convention for foreign-seated mediations.
The world's first intergovernmental organization dedicated to resolving international disputes through mediation, headquartered in Hong Kong since 2025.
The region's flagship provider for cross-border commercial mediation, known for its Arb-Med-Arb protocol with SIAC and a training circuit spanning Asia.
Singapore's principal domestic ADR body since 1997, backed by the Judiciary and the Singapore Academy of Law.
The independent professional standards and accreditation body for mediators in Singapore, housed at NUS.
The SMU-based research academy behind the influential SIDRA International Dispute Resolution Survey.