Commercial mediation
Confidential, structured negotiation facilitated by independent neutrals, including international and cross-border disputes.
ALBG Institute / Dispute Resolution
Resolve with judgment.
Advance with innovation.
An envisioned international center where experienced neutrals, commercial understanding and the responsible use of emerging technology come together.
The Center's purpose
Practice and learning. One reinforcing mission.
Alternative dispute resolution is not simply one course in the ALBG curriculum. It is conceived as a core institutional activity.
The ALBG Center for Mediation & Dispute Resolution aims to provide a credible forum for preventing and resolving cross-border commercial disputes, with a particular understanding of African markets and international business relationships.
Practical experience would inform teaching; teaching and research would strengthen the Center's methods. Technology would be integral to both—not an accessory.
Proposed service lines
A forum built for complex commercial relationships.
Service scope, rules, appointment processes and operating arrangements will be defined before the Center begins accepting matters.
Arbitration services
Proposed arbitrator appointment and administrative support, with particular attention to enforceability, procedural fairness and regional frameworks.
Dispute avoidance & advisory processes
Early neutral evaluation, facilitated settlement discussions, dispute boards and commercially grounded conflict-management design.
People and perspective
Experience at the table matters.
The proposed practitioner network is designed to include seasoned mediators and arbitrators, former U.S. judges, international attorneys, business executives and subject-matter experts.
Judicial experience, comparative legal knowledge and commercial judgment can complement each other—especially when disputes involve multiple legal systems, languages, industries and cultures.
Individual professionals, judicial participants and institutional partnerships will be identified only after their participation is confirmed.
Experienced neutrals. International perspective. Commercially workable solutions.A guiding design principle
Technology as infrastructure
Digital capability built into the process.
Responsible technology adoption should improve access, efficiency and preparation without compromising confidentiality, neutrality or human judgment.
Digital case workflows
Envisioned secure submissions, scheduling, document exchange, electronic case files and remote or hybrid proceedings, subject to appropriate safeguards.
Assisted analysis
Potential AI-assisted chronology, translation, document organization and research, with verification, disclosure protocols, data protection and human review.
Remote collaboration
Technology-enabled participation across jurisdictions and time zones, with attention to differing levels of digital access and connectivity.
The teaching laboratory
Train the practitioners who will shape ADR's future.
Center professionals would contribute to ALBG's educational programs through workshops, mock proceedings, case simulations, practitioner seminars and mentoring.
Planned curricular themes include AI literacy for mediators and arbitrators; ethical deployment of legal technology; online dispute resolution; negotiation strategy; international commercial mediation; OHADA and other regional ADR frameworks; and technology-assisted evidence management.
Explore professional education ↗An integrated operating model
01Resolve actual disputes
02Develop professional insight
03Translate practice into teaching
04Test and improve modern methods
Institutional development
A serious ambition, developed responsibly.
The Center is currently a proposed ALBG Institute initiative. It is not yet accepting cases or representing that any particular judge, lawyer, executive or organization has agreed to serve.
Its launch will require agreed governance and professional standards, independence and conflicts procedures, confidentiality and data-security protocols, appropriate insurance and legal compliance, clear service rules, and a qualified roster of neutrals.