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The Genesis of the Singapore Convention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2021

Edwin Tong*
Affiliation:
Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law, Singapore.

Extract

Thank you to all of you for having me here. I am in very distinguished company today. What I would like to do is to provide an outline of the genesis of the Singapore Convention on Mediation (Convention), how we got here, and more importantly, how we see ourselves moving forward. It is important that, having achieved this significant milestone, we do not rest on our laurels. We need to take steps to ensure that mediation will be adopted and become mainstream in dispute resolution.

Type
The Singapore Convention on Mediation: Considering The Future
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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Footnotes

This panel was convened at 2:15 p.m., Thursday, June 25, 2020, by its moderator Shahla Ali of the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, who introduced the panelists: Edwin Tong of the Singapore Ministry of Law; Itai Apter of the Israeli Delegation to the United Nations; Andrea Schneider of Marquette University Law School; and Mark Califano of Nardello & Co.

References

1 International Mediation Institute, Global Pound Conference Series: Global Data Trends and Regional Differences (2016–2017).

2 Queen Mary University of London and School of International Arbitration, International Arbitration Survey: The Evolution of International Arbitration (2018).

3 We are pleased to note that following the panel discussion, as at the date of this submission, Belarus has ratified the Convention as well.