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• ROUNDTABLE BREAKFAST: Recognizing and Responding to Shame in Mediation

  • When
    Thursday, April 03, 2025
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    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    ZOOM - ONLINE
  • Registered
    201 registrants

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  ACR-GNY & CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College present

  Recognizing and Responding to Shame in Mediation

  This session will provide an opportunity to explore how and why shame can significantly influence the outcomes of disputes. Recognizing and responding to a sense of shame in a variety of disputes will be discussed. Examples from this talk will be drawn from Katrina Abatis’s publication, Inviting the Elephant into the Room: Culturally Oriented Mediation and Peace Practice, which was inspired by Dr. Elsheikh's work.

  
  

  DR. ZAZA JOHNSON ELSHEIKH

  
  

  Zaza Johnson Elsheikh is a CEDR Faculty member and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM). She is also accredited as an International Commercial Arbitrator through the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). As a mediator, Zaza offers a unique blend of professional experience as a medical doctor (1994), a clinical negligence solicitor (2004) and Extremist Ideology Rehabilitation Mentor (2019). She was the Senior Partner at Commercial and Medical Dispute Solutions LLP where she ran a busy clinical negligence/end-of-life, commercial, family, probate, schools and workplace mediation practice based in Dartford, UK for 15years.

  In 2021, Zaza decided to develop an international mediation practice informed by the breadth of her mediation experiences in the UK as a commercial, family, workplace mediator and her mediation skills training achievements abroad. She actively promotes the growth of alternative dispute resolution services for all communities, and in particular, Sulh(a) a traditional form of dispute resolution used in many countries in the Far East, Asia, Middle East and North African regions.

  As a Muslim faith leader, who is influenced by her mixed cultural and religious heritage, Zaza has promoted the use of dispute resolution as an early intervention for disputes between and within faith groups through the charity Belief in Mediation and Arbitration (BIMA) which she co-founded in 2012 with multi-faith mediators and arbitrators. She has also developed seminars on "faithful dispute resolution" and "faithful leadership" which benefit mediators and leaders working with international faith communities.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: The Roundtable Breakfasts are online meetings via Zoom. The link will change each month and will be distributed to all registrants the day before and the morning of the event. All listed times for ACR-GNY events are for Eastern Time. 8:00 am – 8:30 am | Join call to network with attendees 8:30 am – 10:00 am | Presentation and Discussion About the Roundtable Breakfasts The Roundtable Breakfasts are organized by ACR-GNY and the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College. They take place the first Thursday of the month and are ongoing since 2001. Views expressed in connection with any Roundtable event publicity or at sessions are those of the speakers and participants and not of the CUNY DRC or ACR-GNY. This program is supported by ACR-GNY's 365 Sponsors:

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• ACR-GNY 24th Annual Conference - Cartographies of Conflict: Mapping New Pathways to Resolution

  • Start
    Wednesday, June 04, 2025
  • End
    Friday, June 06, 2025
  • Location
    Hybrid - Primarily Online + In-person event in NYC

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