Event Description
We regret to inform you that the webinar is postponed with date to be advised, we apologise for the inconvenience caused.
COMMUNITY MEDIATION IN THE FUTURE
Sat, 1 March 2025
2pm to 4.30pm
Via Zoom
Description
The Community Disputes Resolution Act was recently amended to introduce an enhancement to the Community Dispute Mediation Framework (CDMF). The CDMF seeks to promote good relations among neighbours to minimise the occurrence of disputes, and to promote community mediation as the source for helping neighbours to resolve their issues in an amicable manner.
However, not all disputing parties are willing to use mediation to resolve their problems, while there are others who are simply recalcitrant and unwilling to compromise causing disamenity and annoyance to the neighbours.
The enhanced CDMF hopes to address the issues encountered by introducing new initiatives and measures. Among them are making mediation mandatory, and setting up a designated Community Relations Units with a wide range of powers including investigatory and enforcement powers to intervene in neighbour disputes. The role of the Community Disputes Resolution Tribunal (CDRT) is enhanced with greater powers to deal with hoarding problems, people who have mental conditions, and to issue interim orders among others.
This webinar discusses the measures introduced in the enhanced CDMF, and examines how future community mediation will be like. It hopes to provide a better understanding of the Authorities’ efforts in encouraging neighbours to resolve their problems amicably, and failing which to provide the necessary support for resolving the severe and egregious disputes under the new framework.
Learning Outcomes
Participants who are involved in neighbour disputes will understand the various options available and bring their problems to effective resolution. Participants who are involved in community mediation will have a better understanding of the new framework which enable them to better advise the disputing parties.
Who Should Attend?
Residents, grassroots leaders, community mediators and the general public who are interested in helping others to resolve problems in a friendly way, and to better understand the enhanced framework for community mediation.
Speaker
Dr Lim Lan Yuan, a pioneer and a professional mediator with some 36 years of experience mediating and training mediators in different industries. He is President of International Institute of Mediators (Singapore) and author of three mediation books including several mediation articles.
Charges
iiM members and Participants who attended PA 2-Day Mediation Training conducted by iiM - $20 per person.
Other participants - $40 per person.
Registration will close by 27 Feb 2025.
Contact us for Registration https://iim.sg/contact