Global Mediation Clinics Conference 2025
Monday 20 October 2025
Mediation Clinics across the globe are providing vital access to justice while nurturing the next generation of mediators. These Clinics are often based in universities or legal centres, offer real-world experience for students and volunteer mediators, while delivering free or low-cost mediation services to the public. Their focus can range from community disputes and small claims to workplace, family and commercial conflicts.
Global Mediation Clinics operate within diverse cultural, and educational systems, but share a common commitment to conflict resolution, reflective practice, and ethical service. They also contribute to innovation in mediation by developing inclusive models, interdisciplinary approaches, and research-informed practice.
Development in this field shows there is an increasing value in sharing experiences, models, challenges, and successes. We wish to inspire and strengthen existing clinics and together advance mediation education and practice worldwide.
We invited a range of contributions from educators, students, and practitioners for our next conference. Our contributors reflected diversity, cross-cultural approaches, innovation, access to justice, student experience, supervision, challenges and lessons learned in mediator education and practice across different contexts.
The Global Mediation Clinic Conference can be found on YouTube.
Professor Jill A Howieson, Law School Director, Director of Mediation Clinic, University of Western Australia (UWA)
Clinical Research in Mediation - The UWA Mediation Model - JH
Nina Gersamia, Lawyer, Mediator, Head of EEDR - Mediation Center, and George Amirkhaniani, Student, Project Manager at EEDR Mediation Center, Grigol Robakidze University Georgia (GRUNI)
The Journey of Students in a Mediation Clinic: Integrating Learning, Practice, and Professional Growth
Dr Deborah Cunninghame Graham, Non-Clinical Senior Lecturer in Molecular Medicine, Faculty Lead for Doctoral Student Welfare, King's College London
Using mediation to build and maintain strong working relationships between PhD students and their supervisors
Fiza Mehraj, Student, Vidyashilp University, Bengalura, India
How student mediators are reshaping justice - FM
Ivor Heyman, Advocate of the High Court and Mediator, South Africa
Navigating cultural expectations in global mediation clinics - IH
