The Singapore International Mediation Centre held its first program in Central Asia in early April — a Specialist Mediators' Workshop in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, run over two days for practitioners in a region where institutional commercial mediation is still taking shape.
The Tashkent edition extends a training footprint that has grown rapidly along Asia's commercial corridors. In the preceding months alone, SIMC ran workshops in New Delhi in January and Guangzhou in December 2025, its second in mainland China, alongside its long-standing Tokyo series.
The geography is not incidental. Uzbekistan sits on the Belt-and-Road corridors where Chinese, Central Asian and South Asian commercial interests intersect — precisely the kind of multi-jurisdictional environment in which mediation's speed and enforceability under the Singapore Convention are most attractive.
For SIMC, each certification cohort also seeds a referral network: trained specialist mediators become ambassadors for institutional mediation in their home markets, and prospective co-mediators for cross-border cases. Expect the circuit to keep expanding.
