Mediation Center

21 October 2016

                                        The 4th Asian Mediation Association Conference

The Conference Theme: “New Global Trend of Mediation—Similarities and Differences”

                  October 21st, 2016   (Friday)  Conference Agenda:   08:15-18:00  China Palace Hotel

               Toastmaster: Li Jianning, Director-general of Commercial Legal   Service Center of CCPIT

8:15-9:00

Registration

9:00-9:20

Keynote  Address by Peter Phillips, Director,   Alternative Dispute Resolution

Skills Program, New York Law School

"What the West Can Learn from Chinese Mediation"

9:20-10:40

The 6th session

How Do Mediation and Arbitration Play Their Respective Roles in Resolving  

Disputes Arising from Foreign Commerce?

·HostZhang   Shun, Deputy Director-general of Commercial and Legal Service  

             Center of CCPIT

·Guests

              Li Hu, Deputy Secretary-general of CIETAC

              Chen Fuyong, Deputy Secretary-general of Beijing   Arbitration

              Commission

              Robert Rhodes, QC, FCIArb, Outer Temple   Chambers

·Commentator: Fan Yu, Professor of Renmin University of China

10:50-11:20

Tea Break

11:20-12:40

The 7th session

History   and Development of Mediation Structures of AMA Members

·Host: Yan Yun, Deputy   Director-general of Commercial and Legal Service Center

            of CCPIT

·Guests:                   

   Francis Law Wai Hung, President of Hong Kong Mediation Centre (HKMC)
          Fahmi SHAHAB, Executive Director of Indonesian Mediation Center (PMN)
          Datuk Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari, Chairman of the Malaysian Mediation

          Centre(MMC)
          Justice Adolfo S. Azcuna, Chancellor of Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA)
          Loong Seng Onn, Executive Director of Singapore Mediation Centre(SMC) 
          Judge Suthatip Jullamon Tasanachaikul, Judge of Office of the President

          of the  Supreme Court of Thailand
          Shane Pickering, Mediator of Ministry of Employment & IR, Fiji

·CommentatorZhao Lei, Vice Professor  and Legal Researcher

12:40-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:20

Keynote   Address by Antonia Marsaglia, International Mediator   of Italy

Milano Chamber of Commerce

"Cutting Distances with Mediation"

14:20-14:40

Keynote   Address by Laurence BOULLE, Director of the Mediator Standards

Board in Australia

"Values and Goals in Dispute Resolution Systems: Consistencies and Contrasts"

14:40-16:10

The 8th session

Cultural   Differences and Mediation Techniques between Asian and Western

Countries

·HostPeter Phillips, Director, Alternative Dispute Resolution Skills Program,

            New York Law School

·Guests

             Danny McFadden, CEDR Regional Representative Asia Pacific – Hong Kong

             Wang Fang, Deputy Director of Secretariat of CCPIT   Mediation Center,

             Secretary-general of AMA

             Antonia Marsaglia, International   Mediator of Italy Milano Chamber of

             Commerce

·CommentatorFan Yu, Professor of Renmin University of  China

16:10-16:30

Closing  Ceremony

Closing address by Li Jianning, Director-general of Commercial and Legal Service

Center of CCPIT

18:00

Dinner

The program is subject to change without prior notice