Partners in GermanyMediation Akademie BerlinConcerning the MAB: The MAB supports organizations, institutions, governmental ministries, corporations and executives in change processes. Our belief is that our own human resources are our greatest treasure and hold the strongest potential for sustainable development if competently managed. Experts and Trainers of the MAB communicate knowledge, methodologies and strategies to transform differences and conflicts into mutual agreements for success. The fields in which the MAB actively applies this approach are:
The people at the MAB are dedicated to promoting alternative and autonomous ways of conflict management.
Dr. Thomas R. Henschel, Director  BUCERIUS LAW SCHOOLBucerius Law School, the first privately operated law school in Germany, was founded in 2000 with the goal of offering prospective law students an alternative to the usual legal education provided at German state universities. The main objective was to create an academically accomplished, practice-oriented, and bilingual legal education with a focus on international business law. Graduates acquire the LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) degree and are prepared to complete Germany's First State Examination in Law. Each October, 100 students begin their studies at Bucerius Law School. Students at Bucerius Law School gain manifold insights into legal practice through mandatory internships and the experience of having practicing members of the legal profession actively participate in teaching them. In order to be better prepared for the demands of a global economy, students spend a significant part of their studies at one of the 69 affiliated universities all over the world, 28 of them located in North America. Since its inception in 2000, Bucerius Law School has been involved in the establishment of thirteen full-time professorial chairs, the Institute for Foundation Law and the Law of Non-Profit Organizations, and the Center for Legal Didactics. Bucerius began its in-service training program (www.law-school.de/experten-seminare) in September 2003. The in-service training is geared toward the challenges of a global information society. It offers practicing lawyers specialized training at a sophisticated scientific level with an international focus, covering key areas of competence at the interface between business and law. The November 3 - 7, 2004 training offered in mediation is one specialty in this program.
Contact information: HEIDELBERG INSTITUTE FOR MEDIATION
The University of Heidelberg was founded in 1386 and, as the oldest university in Germany, looks back on a longstanding tradition. This is also the case in education in the field of mediation, which started at Heidelberg University with the first interdisciplinary course in mediation in 1989. Today there exists a highly elaborated training program in mediation that is practice-oriented and embedded in mediation research and evaluation, developed and directed by Lis Ripke and Prof.Dr. Reiner Bastine. The training program at the University of Heidelberg is constructed as a flexible curriculum, designed for working professionals in a variety of disciplines. Participants can chose courses and trainers according to their own expertise and fields of interest. The program emphasizes application of mediation to several fields, the family (primary topic), the economy, public administration, education and the environment. Methods include multi-party-mediation, online-mediation and others. The training requires 200 hours to be completed within a period of 2 to 5 years. The course is divided into 150 hours of seminars and 50 hours of guided supervision of the participants' own practical activity in mediation. Furthermore, the participants have to complete 50 hours of independent practice related studies. Upon the successful completion of the training, the University of Heidelberg will award a certificate.
The Heidelberger Institut fuer Mediation assumes responsibility for the design and the content of the advanced training in mediation. Composition, duration and preconditions for admission comply with both the European and the German Guidelines for the education in mediation. Lis Ripke & Dr. Reiner Bastine "Gerichtsnahe Mediation in Niedersachsen" In times of ever growing judicial caseloads and budgetary restraints, European juridical policy is focusing more and more on mediation as an especially appropriate and innovative means of resolving disputes outside of the court system. Therefore, the then Minister of Justice of the Land of Lower Saxony Prof. Dr. Christian Pfeiffer decided in 2002 to establish the project "Court Annexed Mediation in Lower Saxony". Judge and mediator Freya Entringer became the director of the project. In terms of its scope, this project was unique in the whole of Germany. In six Courts of Lower Saxony, i.e. two County Courts, two District Courts, one Administrative Court and one Social Welfare Court, the potential and the limitations of mediation have been assessed over a period of three years till 2005. The Judges, who have worked and still work as judge mediators had a 150 hours mediation training – partly with Jack Himmelstein, New York, Center for Mediation in Law. Since then, mediation is offered to parties by the courts in many courts all over Germany (for further information see www.mediation-in-niedersachsen.com). As in the framework of the project, the process of mediation is offered to the parties as an option in addition to the traditional ways of resolving their disputes through judgment or settlement. In this way, even ongoing lawsuits can be directed towards an amicable solution through mediation. Specially trained judges of courts offer the parties and their lawyers the option of resolving their conflict through mediation, it being understood that, should the mediation fail, the judges may not preside over the cases they have tried to mediate. The judge-mediator may neither adjudicate the disputes nor offer legal advice. Each party is given an opportunity to present his or her views. Instead of deciding matters concerning the past, the parties are now in a position to concentrate on their future relationship. In addition to the judge-mediators, lawyers and other professionals are supposed to serve as mediators as well. The remaining judges of the project courts are trained to the largest possible extent to play the role of "gatekeepers." They have the important tasks of identifying cases appropriate for mediation, informing the parties and their lawyers about the existing court mediation options and suggesting court annexed mediation to the parties. The parties and their lawyers may also raise the issue of mediation on their own initiative. The introduction of court annexed mediation widens the scope of legal activities for lawyers - they may serve as mediators themselves or counsel parties during a mediation procedure. The results of the project have been assessed by way of simultaneously conducted economic and social research (for further information see www.arpos.de and www.lehrstuhl-spindler.uni-goettingen.de/lehrstuhl/inhaber.php ) The judges who had become mediators and had worked together during the project time are still trying to improve the quality of their ongoing work (e.g. by meeting and doing supervision together, including with Jack Himmelstein).They can be reached under the address:
GEMME The European Association of Judges for Mediation. Section Germany Europäische Richtervereinigung für die Mediation (Gemme) Deutsche Gruppe e.V. The European Association of Judges for Mediation, Section Germany, has been established in January 2006. Goals of the association are:
The German Assocoation is part of the European Association “Le Groupment Europeen de Magistrats pour la Mediation” (Gemme). Please see for further information www.gemme.eu . In order to reach the goals decribed above we are creating a platform for judges and judge mediators in Germany and abroad
Kanzlei für MediationThe Berlin based "Kanzlei für Mediation" is Germany's first law firm specializing exclusively in designing and facilitating Alternative Dispute Resolution processes. The firm's mission is to foster knowledge and use of mediation and other ADR methods in Germany and Europe. It offers dispute consulting, mediation, process and dispute systems design, as well as training and seminars. All of the partners are attorneys and trained mediators, some with U.S. legal education. They teach at various universities, educational institutions and private enterprises. Juliane Ade, Ulla Glaesser, Lars Kirchoff, Constantin Olbrisch Kanzlei für Mediation Ade Glaesser Kirchoff Olbrisch Hasenheide 9 10967 Berlin Germany Phone: 49 30 747 39 622 Fax: 49 30 747 39 623 Email: info@kanzlei-fuer-mediation.de Website: www.kanzlei-fuer-mediation.de
As one of the two existing mediation master programs in Germany, the "Master-Studiengang Mediation" offers interdisciplinary postgraduate research and education in mediation and ADR. The program is a cooperation between the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and the Institut für Anwaltsrecht at the Humboldt-University Berlin.
The participants from Germany, Switzerland and Austria have a wide variety of professional backgrounds and some are already fully trained mediators. The three-semester program consists of 200 hours of practical mediation skills training, additional academic seminars and electives such as court-annexed mediation, mediation and organizational development or international conflict management.
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