CO-ARBITRATION
From Wisdom to Foresight – Co-creating the future of Arbitration
Co-Arbitration is a joint initiative of CIICA and CIICA’s Young Arbitration Group (YAG) that will bring together experienced arbitration practitioners, government officials, industry experts and users/business officials (“Arbitration Boomers”) and young arbitration practitioners, government officials and users/business officials (“Arbitration Genials”) to discuss the current and future opportunities and challenges in the field of arbitration with a view to co-creating a brighter, more meaningful future of arbitration that fulfills the true promise of arbitration for all its stakeholders especially its users across the globe.
Conceptual Overview and Background
While the field of arbitration has grown rapidly during the past couple of decades, it continues to face certain challenges involving effectiveness, enforcement, training of practitioners, a lack of diversity and now, more than ever, technology. All the same, it also holds many promises and offers opportunities with the rise of new arbitration hubs and a surge in adoption of arbitration in the new and evolving sectors/industries.
Co-Arbitration, a ground-breaking inter-generational and inter-stakeholder initiative launched by CIICA in collaboration with CIICA’s Young Arbitration Group (YAG), aims to address challenges and explore opportunities through collaboration.
Inspired by Tim Berners-Lee’s concept of Co-Creativity, Co-arbitration will bring together the hindsight and institutional wisdom of senior arbitration practitioners and other stakeholders (“Arbitration Boomers”) and the curiosity, foresight, and innovation of the next generation of arbitration practitioners and other stakeholders (“Arbitration Genials”) to jointly design the future of arbitration.
Participants
- Arbitration Boomers (Over 45)
Experienced arbitration practitioners and other stakeholders including industry experts, government officials and users (officials/representatives of businesses involved in arbitration)
- Arbitration Genials (20-45)
A combined cohort of Millennials (30–45) and Gen Z (20s): Including students, young arbitration practitioners and other stakeholders including government officials and users (officials/representatives of businesses involved in arbitration)
Format & Methodology
1- Hindsight
Arbitration Boomers will reflect on and analyze:
- What arbitration got right
- What arbitration did not get right
- What no longer works or will not work in the future
2- Foresight
Arbitration Genials propose:
- What must change
- What must be abandoned
- What must be built next
3- Collective Output
Ideas, principles, joint statements (preferably firm commitments) and action plans
Key Themes
- User reality vs. Practitioners’ design
- Technology, AI, and generational responsibility
- Training and preparing the practitioners of the future
- Rethinking procedure, costs, and time
- Institutional evolution vs. disruption
- Inter-generational stewardship of arbitration
Objectives
- Convert experience and imagination into actionable ideas
- Bridge generational and stakeholder silos in arbitration
- Institutionalize inter-generational and inter-stakeholder co-creation
- Generate concrete, actionable outcomes
Through Co-Arbitration, CIICA aims to combine its disruptive passion, trailblazing spirit and unwavering commitment to being an agent of transformative and enduring change and affirm its belief that the future of arbitration cannot and should not be inherited, it must be co-created.
If you would like to get involved, we invite you to become a Co-Arbitration member by emailing us the completed membership form at co-arbitration@ciica.org
CO-ARBITRATION MEMBERSHIP FORM
