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The International Forum "Mediation and Law" is the largest specialized event in Ukraine dedicated to the development of mediation and other alternative dispute resolution methods.
The purpose of the Forum is to promote mediation as an effective conflict resolution tool, enhance the quality of mediation services, exchange best practices, and create opportunities for interaction and cooperation. This event aims to highlight innovative approaches to alternative dispute resolution, explore prospects for their development, and discuss current trends.
As part of the IX International Forum "Mediation and Law," participants will have the opportunity to join panel discussions, workshops, and other events dedicated to relevant topics.

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FORUM PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25

Wednesday
June 25, 2025

15:15-15:30 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)


Wednesday
June 25, 2025

15:30-16:45 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Tat Lim, mediation practitioner, a WWL Global Elite Thought Leader since 2022, Singapore
    Jeremy Lack, a Swiss, US and UK lawyer specialising in international IP disputes and Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR), Switzerland
    Hannah Tümpel, Accredited mediator, lawyer, trainer. Previously held leading positions with the International Chamber of Commerce, United World Colleges & UNESCO. Drafter of ICC Mediation Rules, Germany

Wednesday
June 25, 2025

16:45-17:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)



Wednesday
June 25, 2025

17:00-18:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderator:Natalia Krestovska, Doctor of Law, mediator, trainer, Ukraine
    Speaker:David L. Carden, Lawyer, diplomat, mediator and author, Ambassador David Carden (Ret.) served as the first resident U.S. Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, USA

Wednesday
June 25, 2025

18:00-19:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderator:Maryna Dzeveliuk, mediator, candidate of science of Law, Associate professor, Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
    Speakers:Barrie J Roberts, worked as an attorney, court ADR director, and English instructor. She created English for Dispute Resolution, co-founded InterpretADR, and has written three books, USA

Wednesday
June 25, 2025

19:00-19:15 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)


Wednesday
June 25, 2025

19:15-20:30 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderator:Susan Edwards, President and co-founder of Edwards Mediation Academy, USA
    Speakers:Bernadette Uwicyeza, CEO of Mediation Home Rwanda, ADR Expert, court accredited mediator, trainer in mediation with Edwards Mediation Academy and founding member of Mediation Home Rwanda, Rwanda
    Dr Banke Olagbegi-Oloba, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Private Law at Stellenbosch University, specializing in ADR practice, research & training, Nigeria
    Laurian Haangala is an Economist, Business and Development Consultant, Commercial & Court Annexed Mediator, and Trainer, Zambia

THURSDAY, JUNE 26

Thursday
June 26, 2025

9:50-10:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)



Thursday
June 26, 2025

10:00-10:15 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)


  • Manfredas Limantas, Team leader on rule of law (Chapters 23 and 24) at the Fundamental Reforms Unit of Ukraine Service, European Commission, Belgium
    Oksana Tsymbrivska, Oksana Tsymbrivska - Team Leader of EU Project Pravo-Justice, Ukraine
    Luiza Romanadze, President of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation, Team Leader of the EU Project ”CONSENT”, mediator, attorney, Ukraine

Thursday
June 26, 2025

10:15-11:45 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderators:Luiza Romanadze, President of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation, Team Leader of the EU Project ”CONSENT”, Ukraine
    Oksana Tsymbrivska, Team Leader of EU Project Pravo-Justice, Ukraine
    Speakers:Roman Babiy, Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy, Ukraine
    Olena Bilokon, judge of the Civil Cassation Court of the Supreme Court with experience in courts of first instance, appeal and cassation, PhD in Law, has basic mediator training, Ukraine
    Andrii Ovsiienko, Representative of the Commissioner for the Judicial System on the Right to Fair Justice and Representation in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Ukraine
    Oleksandr Banchuk, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Ukraine
    Rytis Jokubauskas, experienced lawyer and international consultant with extensive experience working in UA, former Secretary General of Lithuanian Bar Association and current Vice-Minister of Justice, Lithuania
    Aarne Kinnunen, Head of Unit and Senior Ministerial Adviser at the Ministry of Justice of Finland, Finland

    Alastair Simon Chetty, Senior Assistant Director, International Legal Division Ministry of Law, Singapore

    Sylvain Baffi, International Training Centre of the International labour Organization, Head of the Social Dialogue and Labor Relations Cluster of the Department of Social Protection, Governance and Tripartism, Italy

Thursday
June 26, 2025

11:45-12:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)


Thursday
June 26, 2025

12:00-13:30 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderator: Maja Cvitan Grubisin, Support to EU Integration Process in the Justice Sector Component Lead at EU project Pravo-Justice, Croatia
    Speakers:Alina Arnaut, Deputy Project Manager at NGO "Tenth of April" with 10 years of experience in the humanitarian field, Ukraine
    Anna Lysko, Director of the Lviv Mediation Center, managing partner at the law firm LI Partners, and member of the Public Integrity Council at the High Council of Justice, Ukraine
    Mohamed M Keshavjee, lawyer, an international specialist in cross cultural mediation, with an LLM and a PHDfrom London University. Certified Training Certificates from the Harvard Program on Negotiation, Massachusetts (with Frank Sander), Berghof Foundation of Berlin and Child Focus of Brussels, United Kingdom

Thursday
June 26, 2025

13:30-15:30 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)



Thursday
June 26, 2025

15:30-17:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderator:Svitlana Sergeyeva, Vice President of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation, IMI Certified Mediator, Head of Sergeyevs’ Law Office, Ukraine
    Speakers:Alessandro Bruni, Lawyer, International Mediator & Arbitrator, Founder CONCILIA, since 1999 ADR & Conflict Management, Mediators' Trainer at the University of Pisa, Vice-President of GEMME Italy, Italy
    Andrew Miller KC, an international mediator and arbitrator. Andrew has 35 years of experience of dealing with and resolving commercial disputes worldwid, United Kingdom
    Rimantas Simaitis, a former president the mediation experts working group of the Council of Europe‘s European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice, Lithuania
    Peter Grajzl, Professor of Economics at Washington and Lee University, USA

Thursday
June 26, 2025

17:00-17:15 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)



Thursday
June 26, 2025

17:15-19:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderators:Vladyslava Donchyk, joined VIAC in 2022. As the VIAC Community Ambassador Network (VIAC CAN) Coordinator, she is working on strengthening VIAC’s ties with the CEE/SEE region, Ukraine
    Natascha Tunkel, partner at KNOETZL, a law firm based in Vienna, Austria. She has over fifteen years of expertise in complex dispute resolution, Austria
    Speakers:Mary Walker, mediator and mediation advocate, a member of the IMI Ethics Committee and IMI Quality Assurance Committee, Australia
    Amelie Huber-Starlinger, International mediator and negotiation consultant, member of the mediation advisory board of VIAC, Austria.
    Thomas John, International Mediator, Arbitrator and Legal Consultant with experience in commercial, art and government law, Netherlands, Australia

Thursday
June 26, 2025

19:00-19:15 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)


Thursday
June 26, 2025

19:15-20:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderator:Nataliia Kovalko, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, business mediator, attorney, national expert on international projects in Ukraine, Ukraine
    Speakers:Catherine Cotsaki, Honorary Lawyer, Accredited Mediator and Mediators Trainer Member of the Central Commission of Mediation of the Greek Ministry of Justice President of the Hellenic Union of Mediators, Greece

Thursday
June 26, 2025

20:00-21:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderator:Olga Golovko, mediator, PhD in Law, senior researcher, Associate Professor at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, PR-manager of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation, Ukraine
    Speaker: Alona Horova, Head of Institute for Peace and Common Ground, group conflict mediator with 20+ years of experience, expert in restorative justice and peacebuilding, Ukraine

FRIDAY, JUNE 27

Friday
June 27, 2025

09:50-10:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)


Friday
June 27, 2025

10:00-11:45 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderators:Kateryna Narovska, President of the NGO "National Association of Mediators of Ukraine", certified mediator, supervisor, trainer, teacher, facilitator, educator, lawyer, Ukraine
    Speakers:Vasyl Lutsyk, Head of the National Social Service of Ukraine, Ukraine
    Natalia Korol, Chief of Staff of Vinnytsia Court of Appeals. Head and co-founder of NGO «All-Ukrainian Association of Court Employees», Master of Law, Mediator, PhD, Ukraine
    Oleksandr Baranov, Director, Coordination Center for Legal Aid Provision, Ukraine
    Yue-En Chong, is a Certified Mediator accredited with the Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI). He specialises in mediating family and community disputes, and has been a panel mediator at several mediation centers in Singapore, including the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC), Eagles Mediation and Counseling Centre (EMCC), Community Mediation Centre (CMC), the Singapore Law Society Family Mediation Scheme (LSFMS) and SAGE Mediation, Singapore.
    Andrea O'Neill, President of The Mediators Institute of Ireland (MII), leading an organisation that represents 700 mediators across the island of Ireland, Ireland

Friday
June 27, 2025

11:45-12:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)


Friday
June 27, 2025

12:00-13:30 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderators:Dmytro Kukhniuk, Head of the National Mediation and Сonciliation Service of Ukraine, Candidate of Legal Sciences (Ph.D.), Docent, Associate Professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine
    Speakers:Oleksandr Shubin, Vice-President of Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, Ukraine
    Fidana Alieva, SIMI Accredited Mediator, ADB workplace mediator, Weinstein JAMS Fellow, founder of the Centre for Mediation and Negotiation, mediation trainer for the CONSENSUS IM-CAMPUS, Kyrgyz Republic
    Sergiy Savchuk, Project Manager at the ILO Country Office for Ukraine, the UN Agency for the world of work, Ukraine
    John Sturrock, has been a mediator for over 25 years working with many different types of conflict, including those in the workplace, United Kingdom
    Sergii Bilenkyi, Deputy Chairman of the Joint Representative Body of the Employers' Side at the National Level, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine, Ukraine

Friday
June 27, 2025

13:30-15:30 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)



Friday
June 27, 2025

15:30-17:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderators:Іryna Dotsenko, mediator, supervisor, psychologist, and trainer at the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation, Ukraine
    Speakers:Victoria Harris, Deputy Chief Executive at the Civil Mediation Council and a strong advocate for both peer and community mediation, United Kingdom

    Mary Lou Bryant Frank, Ph.D., M.S., Psychologist, Litigation Mediator, Mediation Trainer, and Consultant, USA
    Iryna Balan, Mediator, trainer, lawyer, Ukrainian patent attorney, and coordinator of the court-annexed mediation project at the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation Public Union, Ukraine
    Luiza Romanadze, President of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation, Team Leader of the EU Project ”CONSENT”, Ukraine
    Jane Bryan, Professor at Warwick Law School, UK and is the chair of the Civil Mediation Council Academic Forum, United Kingdom
    Pascal Comvalius, certified mediator, crisis and hostage negotiator, suicide prevention gatekeeper and author of the book mediation in criminal case, Netherlands

Friday
June 27, 2025

17:00-17:15 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)


Friday
June 27, 2025

17:15-19:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Moderators:Nataliia Mazaraki, Doctor of Law, Professor, State University of Trade and Economics, Ukraine
    Speakers:Gary Birnberg, Arbitrator/Mediator, based in São Paulo, specialized in cross border commercial disputes. A member of JAMS, he works in English, French, and Portuguese, Brazil
    Corrado Mora, international mediator with 20+ years’ experience specializing in complex disputes training globally and serving on top international mediation institution panels, Italy
    Katarzyna Przyluska- Ciszewska, lawyer, mediator, system designer and trainer and conflict coach for various disputes resolution solutions, Mediation certified teacher, Poland

Friday
June 27, 2025

19:00-19:15 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)



Friday
June 27, 2025

19:15-20:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Jeff Kichaven, is one of the United States' premier mediators. He's "Ranked in Chambers-Band 1" on the US-Nationwide list.- Band 1" on the US-Nationwide list, USA

Friday
June 27, 2025

20:00-21:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Lori Leyden, mentors professionals in using presence to foster resilience, trust, and transformation. She’s known globally for trauma healing and humanitarian leadership, USA 

SATURDAY, JUNE 28

Saturday
June 28, 2025

9:50-10:00 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)



Saturday
June 28, 2025

10:00-12:45 EEST (Kyiv, GMT+3)

  • Speakers:Anna Baryshnykova, mediator, psychologist, trainer, member of the Board of the Ukrainian academy of mediation, Ukraine
    Iryna Suchilova, family mediator, trainer, psychologist, lawyer, member and coordinator of the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation, member of the "Association of Family Mediators of Ukraine , Ukraine