Environmental and natural resource conflicts are found everywhere. Everywhere and every day, people compete for scarce resources, including access to clean air and water, oil and gas, minerals, timber, farmland, or to preserve habitat for plants and animals. In competition for these resources, people struggle to resolve issues such as how to balance resource exploitation with the need to preserve air and water quality, how to supply water to arid regions while protecting surface and groundwater supplies, or how to permit genetic modification of plants and animals while preserving the integrity of naturally evolved species and ecosystems.

Environmental Mediation workshop is a rigorous, but flexible, process where the parties negotiate hard on the merits and resolve the issues at the core of the conflict and then establish a workable, enforceable framework for implementing agreements for clean-up and/or compensation.

Many of environmental dispute cases are high risk, expensive to try, handled by extremely competent professionals and, therefore, a well designed and implemented environmental mediation provides the perfect forum in which to intelligently evaluate and resolve their differences. This course will entirely and expensively focus on those skills.

Eligibility Requirements: This workshop will be open to participants from all disciplines and professional fields.

Learning Objectives

This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills:

• Key principles and steps for ensuring effective Environmental mediation.

• Challenges in multiparty environmental mediation.

• Key Steps in Environmental Mediation Process and forms of environmental mediation

• Use of mediation to address challenges in environmental dispute resolution

The course is designed for professionals from all fields and those willing to engage in shared learning.

Format

To bring the lessons to life, participants will engage in several role-play simulations that mirror real-life disputes. The program also includes lectures; debrief sessions, and interactive discussions, as well as opportunities to watch the latest mediation practice videos in the industry.

Course Materials

A Manual plus e-material will be provided to participants.

Tuition Fee

Ksh. 30,000/=

Bank Details: Mediation Training Institute East Africa. Absa Bank Harambee Avenue account no: 2027798090

Location

Check Calendar/TBC

For Clarification

Please do not hesitate to contact Hesbon on Tel: 0714390371, Emma on 0725538320 or Mr. Mangerere on  0707124831/020 2227886

Postal address P.O Box 42199-00100 Nairobi.

Physical address: Kimson Plaza Eastern Bypass Utawala, Next to Benedicta Academy