Manager for the UWI Open Campus British Overseas Territories, Dr. Phyllis Fleming Banks was among some twenty-three (23) senior managers from University of the West Indies Open and Cave Hill Campuses participating in an Alternative Dispute Resolution training at the UWI Cave Hill in Barbados last week.
The five-day, forty-hour certification workshop on Community Mediation was an initiative of the Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT Justice) Project. The Project, which is funded by the Canadian Government, is being implemented by the UWI Cave Hill Campus in thirteen CARICOM Member States.
The aim of the Project is to increase access to and strengthen alternatives for settlement of disputes using mediation, restorative justice and community-based peace-building services in CARICOM Member States. The outcome of the IMPACT Justice Mediation Training is enhanced access to justice benefitting men, women youth and businesses.
The intensive workshop focused on Conflict and Negotiation, Mediation and High Level Mediation Skills. It was facilitated by Elizabeth Hyde, Jared Norton, Mina Vaish and Daniella Wald from Riverdale Mediation in Ontario, Canada.
Expressing her pleasure at having the UWI team participate in the training, Project Director, Professor Velma Newton of the Caribbean Law Institute Centre at the UWI Cave Hill, said that so far about eight hundred (800) persons have been trained in the region. The IMPACT Justice Project uses the best trainers available, she said, and the hope is that community mediation will continue to be used as a technique for solving problems.
– Press Release
(Published without editing by The Anguillian newspaper.)
