International Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Bulgaria
In 2005, Ms. Cole served as a Mediation Specialist for USAID - ABA/CEELI, and was appointed to work with the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice and a Mediation Committee to assist in designing and implementing a mediation program for the country. In addition to assising in drafting a Uniform Register, she authored procedural and ethical, and educational Rules pursuant to the Bulgarian Mediation Act of December 2005. She prepared course components and assisted in Advanced Training of Bulgarian mediators. (April- July 2005)
Jordan
In 2006 she worked as an ADR Specialist in Amman, Jordan with USAID/ABA. She assisted in the implementation and development of a court-related Pilot Mediation Program, one of the first in the Middle East. Her assignments, working with Judicial Mediation Committee and the Ministry of Justice included: design and physical construction of a Mediation Center in the Amman Palace of Justice; drafting rules, forms, surveys and regulations for the Court Pilot Program; developing Introduction to ADR training for the Judicial Institute of Jordan; conducting mediation training for Arab Women's Legal Network and judges; and, drafting and training of Standards of Conduct for Mediators. (March - June 2006)
Jordanian US Training Program
Following her service in Amman, Jordan, she designed and implemented a USAID/ABA Mediation Training Program for a Jordanian delegation including judges and Ministry of Justice officials. She hosted the 7-day training program in Tampa and Tallahassee, Florida in July 2006.
Kosovo
In April 2007, she designed all of the elements of a court-related Pilot Mediation Program in Gjilan, Kosovo. Serving as a Mediation Specialist with USAID/NCSC, she prepared recommendations to judges on: general mediation procedures and forms; recommendations on selection of mediator trainees; education requirements for mediators; mediator training requirements; provisions for referring cases to mediation; mediation procedures for recording case intakes, case processing, and case disposition; mediation confidentiality; creation of a mediation steering committee; grievance procedures, and mediation fees.
Mediators Beyond Borders
Ms. Cole is a Founding Member and a Director on the Board of Mediators Beyond Borders. MBB is a non-profit, humanitarian organization established to partner with communities worldwide to build their conflict resolution capacity for preventing, resolving and healing from conflict. This partnership involves the design and implementation of sustainable peace building initiatives responsive to the needs and culture of the communities, and to the history of each conflict. MBB partners with NGOs, universities, political and activist groups, community organizations, professional societies, environmental, commercial and other entities worldwide to develop skills for group facilitation, public dialogue, strategic planning, collaborative negotiation, peer mediation, restorative justice, and public policy consensus building.
To contact MBB, visit the website at mediatorsbeyondborders.org.
Lynn Cole speaks at Mediators Without Borders
Lynn Cole speaks at Mediators Without Borders