UIA World Forum of Mediation Centres in Thessaloniki

October 7, 2014February 16, 2015 JUDr. Martin SvatosPosted in ADR, Conferences, Events, MediationTagged Conferences and Lectures, mediation

The 20^th issue of UIA World Forum of Mediation Centres took place in Thessaloniki, Greece between the 25^th and 28^th of September 2014 focusing on the current topics in relation to the use of mediation and of the other ADR, including the insolvency matters.

The forum has been serving as the platform for the meeting of leading professionals in the field and for the exchange of ideas concerning the promotion of the mediation for more than ten years.

Dr. Martin Svatos, Ph.D. gave a speech about the use of mediation and the concept of the BONUS PATER FAMILIAS with special regards to insolvency matters. The pdf version of his presentation can be found here.

The full program can be approached here.

The next Forum will take place in Amsterdam in June 2015.

Martin is one of the leading Czech mediators and arbitrators. He has acted in more than 200 both international and domestic cases in mediation (listed by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic and by the Energy Community). His experiences in alternative dispute resolution were appreciated when he became the President of the Working group of the ICC Czech Republic for mediation. Martin has acted in several arbitrations both as chairman, member of the tribunal and of counsel (listed as arbitrator by the VIAC, Arbitration Court of the Czech Football Association, Czech Arbitration Court and Czech Commodity Exchange Arbitration Court). Martin lectures at the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and at the Seminar of European and Comparative Law in Urbino (Italy). He has been visiting professor at the University of the French West Indies in Guadeloupe. He also gave a course at the Faculté Libre de Droit Institut Catholique de Toulouse, at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (both PRC), Georgetown University (USA) and many others. In 2016, he acted as a member of the Czech delegation to the UNCITRAL WG II. He publishes and gives speeches at international conferences on regular basis. He is one of the co-editors of the EU Mediation Handbook (Kluwer International, 2017). As a speaker, he attended many international conferences all around the globe (the UIA World Forum of Mediation Centres, the IBA Annual Conference, the German Arbitration Institute Annual Conference, the Conference of the Mediators’ Institute of Ireland (Dublin) and YIAG conferences (Istanbul, Warsaw)...