The Certified Arbitrator (CertArb) Certificate certifies that the holder is a competent professional arbitrator. It is the outcome of 50 hours of arbitration skills acquisition training based on rigorous and robust instructions, case studies, and hands-on arbitration of live dispute(s), followed by an equally in-depth professional debriefing by a highly experienced senior arbitrator. A BGU Certified Arbitrator (CertArb) is a thoroughbred and confident arbitrator, remarkable for domestic and international arbitration skills.
The graduand is entitled to add the mark of their achievement, CertArb, as a suffix after their name, to show that they have achieved this rank of professional arbitrator. This draws attention to their skills as arbitrator, thus offering them opportunity to serve people in need of their skills in business/corporate settings and anywhere there is a dispute that parties have agreed should be arbitrated via domestic or international arbitration. The CertArb holder thus serve in an arbitration proceedings in whatever capacity they are engaged – arbitral panel member; sole arbitrator; registrar etc.
Cost | $850 |
Prerequisite Requirements | Minimum associate degree or equivalent. |
Time | 50 hours. Interested candidates can join any time of the year. |
Instruction Method | Videos, experiential assignments, application and reflection papers. |
Level of Instructor Involvement | Self-guided, self-paced, 1-1 debriefing meeting with the professor at the conclusion of the course. |
Credit | Certified Arbitrator. No academic credit. |
Olajide Olagunju, Ph.D., FCIArb, FICMC, Anthropologist and Peace Scholar; Attorney-at-Law, Chartered Arbitrator and Mediator, is a BGU Professor of Conflict Resolution. He has practiced law, arbitration, and mediation for three decades. His broad experience with government, academia, and Fortune 500 includes the United States, United Nations, World Bank, Harvard Law School, MIT, Brandeis, Chevron Corporation, and the Government of Nigeria. His 2012 counsel as federal ministerial adviser (Labor, Law and Conflict Management) broke the logjam to the privatization of the Nigerian electricity sector, thus impacting the 250 million people across West Africa who are served by the sector. Multilingual and fluent in French and English, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Conflict Studies (JOCS) published in ten languages. He is also the President of International Mediators Association (IMA) – publishers of JOCS and Workplace Spirituality. His other publications, in 27 languages, include How to Resolve a Conflict (2020); African Art as Hegemony (2023); and Legal Theft - Making Law for Underdevelopment and Conflict (2024). His current research is in the intersection of policy, poverty, and peace.
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