The Research Library
A curated collection of the surveys, white papers, treaty texts and scholarship shaping mediation in Asia — from the Singapore Convention to landmark empirical studies. Every entry links to the original publisher.
SIDRA International Dispute Resolution Survey: 2024 Final Report
The 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.
Singapore Convention on Mediation — Treaty Text & Ratification Status
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.
Convention Establishing the International Organization for Mediation — Basic Documents
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.
2025 International Arbitration Survey: The Path Forward
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.
Challenges and Opportunities for Adopting ADR in Developing Asia
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.
Decoding the Mediation Act, 2023
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 Mediation Act 2023 — Will the ADR Wave Pick Up Momentum?
A practitioner assessment of the Act's voluntary pre-litigation model, 180-day timelines and institutional architecture — and a candid evaluation of whether businesses and government litigants will actually use it.
SIMC Case Reports
Anonymized narratives of real cross-border commercial mediations, with mediator reflections on cultural dynamics in Asian disputes — one of the few public windows into how institutional mediation actually unfolds.
Conciliation Beyond the Courts: Mandated and Voluntary Court Mediation Programmes
Open-access comparative chapter with empirical data on mandatory versus voluntary court-connected mediation across ten jurisdictions, with deep treatment of China's judicial mediation, Japan's chotei, Hong Kong, Malaysia and India.
Dripping Water Wears Through Stone: The IOMed Convention Signed in Hong Kong
One of the first serious scholarly treatments of IOMed's strategic and legal significance — why China championed an intergovernmental mediation body, and what it means for Belt-and-Road dispute management.
Comparative Dispute Management: Court-Connected Mediation in Japan and Germany
A landmark comparative study of Japan's mature court-connected mediation (chotei) system — frequently cited on why Asian jurisdictions institutionalized mediation decades before the West.
Alternative Dispute Resolution Manual: Implementing Commercial Mediation
The classic implementation manual for building commercial mediation programs — diagnosis, design, mediator training, incentives and monitoring. Still the standard reference for governments and donors.
Global Pound Conference Series: Global Data Trends and Regional Differences
The landmark global stakeholder study of what disputants actually want from commercial dispute resolution — widely credited with documenting corporate demand for combining mediation with adjudicative processes.
ADR Notes — Running Commentary on Mediation & ADR Developments
A leading disputes practice's living commentary stream on ADR and mediation policy shifts, with a parallel Asia Disputes Notes series — practical for tracking developments between the big annual surveys.