Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution
The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) specialises in mediation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR). We are an independent non-profit organisation and a registered charity.
CEDR's Vision
Better conflicts result in better outcomes leading to a better world.
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Consumer Disputes
We provide independent alternative dispute resolution for consumers when they experience problems with a company and have exhausted their complaints procedure.
- Evidence is weighed up by someone who is independent and impartial to CEDR and the company you have a dispute with.
- If you have an unresolved complaint with a company that is covered by one of our schemes, we may be able to help you.
- Industries we cover include flights (aviation), telecommunications (CISAS) and water & sewerage (WATRS).
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Commercial Mediation
CEDR specialises in the resolution of commercial disputes and deadlocked negotiations.
- Mediation is a flexible process conducted confidentially in which trained neutral mediators assist people and/or organisations to work towards a negotiated agreement of a dispute.
- We have experience across all sectors and with all types of conflicts, from small claims to disputes valued in the billions.
- Mediation can be a far more effective – and a much cheaper – way of resolving issues.
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Training & Consulting
CEDR is the leading UK and European provider of conflict, negotiation and mediation training.
- We offer a range of mediator skills, advocacy and awareness training programmes in addition to bespoke packages for organisations of all sizes.
- We also provide consultancy services to assist with organisational change.
- All are led by expert practitioners and can be tailored to sectors and individual clients.
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CEDR Foundation
The CEDR Foundation supports projects enabling the next generation of professional mediators and those with mediation skills.
- Foundation activities complement our wider work and seek to bring about public benefit by addressing key areas of ADR development and reform.
“It was a great and intense course, I highly recommend it to anybody. It will make you a better person, no less than that.”
"It is fortunate that CEDR has created a unit to undertake its charitable Foundation activities, to conduct this type of initiative as a service to the public, and CEDR is to be congratulated on a job well done."
"The reason I chose the MST with CEDR is because I was told that it’s the best course, now I know why. The level of the coaches and the trainers, the level of the reviewers, the content, the detail, the quality. But I think above all else, it’s the passion that everybody puts into the course, and that’s why I chose it"
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