AIPM

The Association Internationale des Professionnels de la Médiation (AIPM) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to promoting and organizing mediation as a conflict resolution method across various countries. AIPM brings together mediation professionals committed to fostering amicable dispute resolution, raising public awareness, supporting mediators, and ensuring ethical and high-quality practices. AIPM's mission encompasses promoting mediation as an alternative to conflicts, providing training and support for mediators in their practice, and educating individuals, associations, businesses, and institutions about the benefits of mediation. The organization's core values include neutrality, impartiality, confidentiality, attentive listening, and kindness. Mediation is an amicable process that resolves disputes through the intervention of an impartial third party—the mediator. AIPM's members are experienced mediators specializing in international commercial mediation and serve as references in their respective countries, including Belgium, Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, and Canada. They are equipped to provide information about accredited mediators within their nations. The association's areas of intervention include intra-company mediation (e.g., internal disputes, moral harassment), inter-company mediation (e.g., disputes between companies, service providers, suppliers, commercial litigation), judicial mediation (e.g., appointment of a mediator by judicial or administrative courts), family and social mediation (e.g., parental conflicts, divorces, successions), sports mediation (e.g., disputes between athletes, clubs, federations), tourism mediation (e.g., disputes between passengers, airlines, travel agencies), intellectual property mediation (e.g., disputes between authors, artists, publishers, producers, distributors), and banking mediation (e.g., disputes between clients and banks, between banks and insurance companies). Engaging a mediator through AIPM facilitates the restoration of dialogue, the development of solid and lasting solutions, and the avoidance of lengthy and costly procedures.