This undergraduate mediation tournament will feature three preliminary rounds, a semi-final round and a championship round. Before the tournament, there will be training in mediation and advocacy.The INADR (InterNational Academy of Dispute Resolution) hosts annual International Intercollegiate Mediation Tournaments (IIMT) for law, graduate, and undergraduate students to practice mediation, advocacy, and client counseling. The tournament features rounds where students act in realistic dispute scenarios as mediators (often with co-mediators from different schools), as advocates, and as clients. Participants are judged on skill, cooperation, and achieving resolutions, with awards for individual and team performance.
Key Aspects of INADR Tournaments:
- Roles: Students act as Mediators, Advocates, and Clients, working in teams (co-mediators from different schools).
- Format: Competitions involve preliminary rounds, semi-finals, and finals, with judges providing feedback.
- Focus: Emphasizes collaborative problem-solving, professionalism, integrity, and finding mutually agreeable solutions, not adversarial wins.
- Judging: Evaluates teamwork, listening skills, case presentation, and ability to guide parties to resolution, penalizing those who invent facts or act unprofessionally.
- Participants: Open to law, graduate, and undergraduate students globally.