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Rafael Lobo Niembro

Mediator

Mexico

Rafael Lobo Niembro is a lawyer, mediator, facilitator, trainer and consultant in conflict management in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. He is Founding Partner of Alinea, the first Private Mediation Center certified by the State Supreme Court in Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

He was the founder and Director of the first Municipal Mediation Center in Mexico in 1999 at San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo Leon. He has developed several projects on mediation for municipalities in the metropolitan area of Monterrey as well as with the State Supreme Court and the Attorney General Office of Nuevo Leon.

He has been a consultant and developer of peace culture projects with the Mexican Federal Government for social conflicts in different environments, complexities and participants.

He has been invited as a speaker in seminars, regional, national and international mediation congresses in countries such as Italy, Spain, Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and The United States. He has been lecturing on mediation for different public and private organizations as well as Universities around the country.

He participated as a pro bono consultant in the legislative package that was approved in the State Congress of Nuevo Leon in 2005 as well as consultant on the labor legal reforms creating the first national standard to certify labor conciliators in Mexico. Also, he has being a consultant for the Senate to create a national law on ADR for Mexico.

He was a consultant for the American Bar Association-USAID Mediation Project in Mexico for 18 States. He also is a member of the panel of international mediators for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the international division of the American Arbitration Association (AAA).

He is certified mediator number 1 by the State Supreme Courts on Nuevo León and three other States in Mexico. (Coahuila, Tamaulipas and Yucatan)

He is the founder and first President of the Mediators State Bar of Nuevo Leon, which was the first State Bar in Mexico, also, he is founder and Ex-President of ARCO, Association for Conflict Resolution, the first national mediation association in Mexico. He collaborated with the IMI, International Mediation Institute in the Hague as member of the Independent Standards Commission to establish criteria, standards and material for IMI Certification where he became the first Mexican to be certified by the IMI https://imimediation.org/member/rafael-lobo/ . In addition, he has been designated as the mediator for the World Bank for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for internal matters, since 2011. In 2022 he became part of the international global panel of mediators for five different agencies of the United Nations that provide mediation services for labor cases.

Mr. Lobo has been awarded with the “Peace and Concord” medal as an acknowledgment for his contribution to promote mediation in Mexico, during the XI National Congress and VII World Congress of Mediation in Toluca, State of Mexico in August 2011, among other recognitions as a pioneer and leader in the field of mediation.

Currently, he is a professor on ADR at Universidad de Monterrey and the Director of the Dispute Resolution Center for the Law Faculty.

Featured IM Campus contributors

James Claxton

Mediator, Arbitrator & Law Professor

Japan

James is a mediator, arbitrator, and law professor at Rikkyo University in Tokyo. He previously practiced international dispute resolution at law firms in Paris and was legal counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes of the World Bank in Washington.

Ian Rigden

Director IMC

United Kingdom

Ian joined the British Army in 1980 and spent 37 years in uniform, retiring in 2017. He spent most of his service in the Brigade of Gurkhas, including Commanding a Gurkha Infantry Battalion, as well as in operational staff roles at every level of Command, National, Coalition and Multinational. He has served on operations on the Hong Kong-Sino Border, the Falkland Islands (post-conflict), Northern Ireland, Belize, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq.

He was the Regional Security Sector Advisor for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue Asia Regional Office and Myanmar Team from 10 July 2017 to 1st April 2022 working on the Myanmar Peace Process, engaging with multiple actors. He then became the Regional Advisor for HD Asia-Pacific, coordinating, mediating and facilitating specific projects on Humanitarian access and human security (particularly Myanmar), but also supporting HD’s wider efforts in South East Asia, including Thailand, Bangladesh and the Philippines, as well as providing security sector advice to HD’s team globally as required. He has taught mediation and negotiation and facilitated multiple dialogues during the last 7 years plus to many conflict parties throughout South East Asia and further afield, with another 15 years negotiation and mediation practical and teaching experience in the UK Armed Forces prior to that.

He holds Master’s Degrees in Defence Studies from King’s College, London (1995), and Strategic Studies from the US Army War College (2008). He is a member, facilitator and mentor for the Centre of Competence for Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN), which is based in Geneva. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Prof Ran Kuttner

Associate Professor of Dispute Resolution & Mediator

Israel

Ran is an Associate Professor of Dispute Resolution (expert track) at the University of Haifa, where he teaches in the International Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Management Studies.

Maria Francesca Francese

IMI Certified Mediator, MCIArb

Italy

Francesca is a civil and commercial mediator, with almost two decades of experience and thousands of mediated cases.

Dr Adeyemi Agbelusi

Accredited Arbitrator, Mediator and Mediation Advocate and Trainer

Nigeria

Dr Adeyemi Agbelusi is Principal Partner, Berean Associates involved in resolving disputes throughout Nigeria and other Jurisdictions.

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Our participants have various professional und cultural backgrounds. After the successful completion of your training, you can be part of our huge IMC Fellows network meeting former participants from different working fields such as UN negotiators, NGO, WHO, judges of supreme courts, psychologists and more. Be ready for a very active and unique network of people based in more than 70 countries.

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I liked how flexible IMC’s training was: anyone at any age and profession can take part to learn about mediation and gain experience. It has changed my whole perception and experience of conflict. I am so glad that I can see a career for myself in this field!

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From the perspective of a student, my takeaway was, within this course, that it is not enough for you to study books alone. You have to do real practical sessions and the practices that we had in this training during these three months were really, really helpful for me.

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Being an IMCampus alumnus is one of my greatest achievements. I was given the opportunity to sublime my mediation skills thanks to professional and skilled mediators; but most of all IMCampus helped me to broaden my horizon becoming the “consensus bridger” that I am now.

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If you decide to take a course at IM Campus, you should be ready to:
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I had thought that I already knew about mediation as a lawyer. Nevertheless, with IMC, I experienced explorations that I had not previously considered in every session.

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Everything was so enriching and I loved this multicultural class. I think that was the main learning here because we learnt to be an international mediator because this is a huge cross-cultural mediation. When I need a co-mediator from another country, I will remember you.

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Watching the mediators mediate is something missing in the market and IMC fulfils this!

International Mediation Campus provides services and training in mediation and conflict resolution internationally.

Rafael Lobo Niembro

Mexico

Featured IM Campus contributors

James Claxton

Mediator, Arbitrator & Law Professor

Ian Rigden

Director IMC

Prof Ran Kuttner

Associate Professor of Dispute Resolution & Mediator

Maria Francesca Francese

IMI Certified Mediator, MCIArb

Dr Adeyemi Agbelusi

Accredited Arbitrator, Mediator and Mediation Advocate and Trainer

Testimonials from our Mediation Training

Hear from our participants who are now part of our global network of mediators as IMC Fellows.

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