About the Center

The Center is a non-profit educational institute dedicated to integrating mediative principles into the practice of law and the resolution of legal disputes. Since its founding in 1981, the Center has conducted introductory and advanced training programs for lawyers and other professionals, offering its unique Understanding-Based approach to conflict resolution.

In the U.S., more than 3,000 lawyers, law teachers, judges and other professionals have been trained in this method. Since 1990, the Center has offered trainings in Europe and Israel. Center trainers have also used the model in trainings at Harvard's Program of Instruction for Lawyers, the Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative, the American Bar Association and the World Intellectual Property Organization. For those who have completed the Mediation Intensive course and are interested in the practice of conflict resolution, the Center offers ongoing support groups, peer groups and advanced training programs.

"The central quality of mediation...[is] its capacity to reorient the parties toward each other, not by imposing rules on them, but by helping them to achieve a new and shared perception of their relationship."
- Lon Fuller, 1902 - 1978
Author and Professor, Harvard Law School

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