Starting in August 2017, SIDRA and the Singapore Management University School of Law launched a joint programme for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminars, providing legal practitioners and professionals in Singapore opportunities to earn Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points through the Singapore Institute of Legal Education (SILE). The SMU Law Academy (SMULA, formerly called SMU CLE) has been providing programmes, lectures, workshops, and seminars to the Singaporean practice community for quite some time.

In our interview series, titled "PERSPECTIVES", we reach out to thought leaders in the fields of negotiation and dispute resolution, ask them questions, and invite them to share their ideas and insights.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Professor Michelle LeBaron, a conflict transformation scholar and practitioner at the University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law and member of the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy's faculty.

In our interview series, titled "PERSPECTIVES", we reach out to thought leaders in the fields of negotiation and dispute resolution, ask them questions, and invite them to share their ideas and insights.

  We had the pleasure of interviewing Michael McIlwrath, Global Chief Litigation Counsel for GE Oil & Gas and member of the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy's faculty.

 On 24 March 2017, Greg Bond (Bond & Bond Mediation / University of Wildau), published a blog article on the Kluwer Mediation Blog, entitled "Global Pound Berlin, March 24, 2017" His article is republished in full below.

On 16 March 2017, our Academic Director, Professor Nadja Alexander, published a blog article on the Kluwer Mediation Blog, entitled "Towards a Harmonised Approach to Mediation Legislation in Asia?" Her article is republished in full below.

The Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA) was launched on 17 March 2016 at the 2016 Global Pound Conference as a regional hub and international platform for thought leadership, research and development, and training and education in negotiation and dispute resolution.

Since SIDRA's launch, many people have asked, "What is SIDRA?"

Like negotiators and mediators well-versed with the interests-based model, some people have also asked, "Why SIDRA?"

These are good questions, and indeed, questions to be expected.

Since its launch, the Global Pound Conference (GPC) Series has brought together dispute resolution stakeholders at locally-based events and gathered actionable data on the local and global dispute resolution markets.