The Certified Mediator (CertMed) Certificate certifies that the holder is a competent professional mediator. It is the outcome of 45 hours of mediation skills acquisition training, based on rigorous and robust conceptualization, case studies, and hands-on resolution of live conflicts from diverse backgrounds, followed by an equally in-depth professional debriefing by a highly experienced senior mediator. A BGU Certified Mediator is a thoroughbred and confident mediator, remarkable for skills in conflict resolution.
The graduand is entitled to add the mark of their achievement, CertMed, as a suffix after their name, to show that they have achieved this rank. In so displaying their qualification as a professionally certified mediator (CertMed) they are able to draw attention to their skills as mediator, thus offering them opportunity to serve people in need of their skills, either for a fee or as a volunteer, both in various situations – business, faith-based organizations, communities, NGO/nonprofits, educational institutions, training, public sector, foundations/funding agencies, media, etc – anywhere there is a conflict, the CertMed can serve.
Cost | $850 |
Prerequisite Requirements | Minimum: associate degree or equivalent. |
Time | 45 hours. Interested candidates can join any time of the year. |
Instruction Method | Video lectures, 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 Mediator. 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.
For inquiries, please contact the Program Director.