Workshop for Arab Quality Makers

Damascus- The Arab Quality Makers, in cooperation with the Sweden Smart Business Academy, the Syrian Legal and Arbitration Knowledge Partnership and the Al Adl and Al Ihsan Arbitration Center, organized here a workshop entitled “Ensuring the quality of negotiation, arbitration, protocol and communication according to international standards and Swedish standards, ISO.”

The five-day workshop, which opened on Sunday at Asharq Club in Damascus, aims to enhance the capabilities of arbitrators and negotiators and provide them with the necessary skills to lead the negotiation, arbitration and international communication in the areas of legal transactions and contracts, business and corporate resolution and liquidation in political affairs and the management of international disputes and law.

Some 70 persons including judges, lawyers, arbitrators, politicians, parliamentarians, employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the diplomatic corps, businessmen, contractors, senior traders and corporate agent attended the workshop.

The themes of the first day of the workshop focused on the friendly means of conflict resolution and its impact on the prospects of attracting foreign investment in Syria and the skills and tools of building and making the right decisions and the skills and tools of effective communication processes.

” The workshop is the first of its kind in Syria and we seek to shift from the quantity in the number of licensed arbitration offices in Syria, which exceeded 60 offices, to the type by working on the development of measured standards on the basis of the performance of the arbitration offices, their quality and credibility and follow up and monitoring the foundations of international quality in their work,” Director General of the Arab Quality Makers Pro. Hassan al Hamwi said in a statement to SANA.

According to Pro. Al Hamwi, a test will be carried out to the participants in the workshop and who pass the exam will get a diploma in arbitration, pointing out that the workshop will produce a number of recommendations for raising the performance of the arbitration offices through the Ministry of Justice. The most prominent of these is that the ministry demands all arbitration offices to comply with international quality systems in arbitration, especially that Syria is a member of ISO International Organization in addition to controlling the security of information in the arbitration offices and obligating all arbitrators and employees to conduct training courses continuously.

For his part, Dr. Mohammed Walid Mansour, one of the lecturers in the workshop, said that the workshop will contribute to improving the work of the arbitrators and refining their skills to reach international standards, especially in the reconstruction phase, which attracts a large number of investors and the quality of arbitration guarantees the investor, the existence of fixed laws, insurance companies and friendly means to resolve disputes and matters of litigation between the parties and this is guaranteed by arbitration.

For their part, a number of participants confirmed the importance of the workshop in terms of refining and supporting expertise. Lawyer Nada al-Asali said that the workshop contributes to the spreading of the culture of arbitration and open new horizons for the entry of lawyers who wish to work in this field.

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