The National Mediation Conference will be held on the Gold Coast from 11-15 September 2016. They have issued a call for papers on the theme ‘“Thought, Innovation and Creativity: The Next Decade” . The closing date for proposals is in mid-March.
Here’s a snippet from the conference page elaborating on their theme:
This year our conference theme is: “Thought, Innovation and Creativity: The Next Decade”. We will showcase: what we know and how we know it; think about our thinking; reflect on how we innovate, educate and train practitioners across the wide spectrum from self determination to determinative processes; how we can become more flexible and creatively facilitate processes in response to the diverse needs of our clients to provide a future of best practice in all we do to manage our own and other peoples disputes.
The Australian Dispute Resolution Research Network 
National Mediation Conference 2016 Gold Coast
Dispute Resolution Research Forum
Thursday 15 September 2016
To all researchers, Academics and Research Higher Degree students in Arts, Humanities, Law, Justice, Judicial Science, Social Science, Psychology (clinical, child psychology, counselling) and other DR related fields.
The National Mediation Conference Queensland Board encourages you to present and share your work with like-minded researchers at the bi-annual National Mediation Conference 2016 which will be held from Monday, 12 – Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on the Gold Coast, Queensland. See http://www.mediationconference.com.au
A specific Dispute Resolution Research Forum will be held post-conference on Thursday, 15 September 2016 at Bond University. Attendance to the DR Research Forum is included in the cost of the Conference.
The conference theme is ‘Thought, Innovation and Creativity: The Next Decade’
This is a unique opportunity to exchange ideas, results, evaluations, proposals for future research and to discuss thought, innovation and creativity in DR research area for the next decade!
Abstracts are due 15 March 2016. As in past conferences, presenters at the Research Day will not receive a speaker’s fee and will have to register for the day if they are not attending the whole conference.
Early Career Researchers along with more established researchers are encouraged to participate in presenting on their latest research.
Delegates include academics, policy makers, and practitioners across the DR spectrum, authors, and participants from the private and public sectors, agencies and organisations.
Presentations will be disseminated via the Conference website and become freely available. Additionally each presenter will be encouraged to publish their material in recognised journals such as the Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal (ADRJ), Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Australian Journal of Family Law, Family Law Review and the Arbitrator & Mediator, Resolution Institute Journal, formally the IAMA Australia Journal.
Please forward this invitation to your networks and others who may be interested to attend the Conference and or present at the Research Forum.
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This will tie in really well with the Global Pound Conference which is being held around the world this year, beginning in Singapore in March. Should be a great conference
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