The Qatar International Centre for Conciliation and Arbitration (QICCA) will host the ‘Qatar International Dispute Resolution Workshop Week’ from April 16 to 20 at Qatar Chamber headquarters, it was announced in a statement.
The event will highlight the “specialised knowledge and essential skills” needed in international dispute resolution. It is also tailored to equip participants with “critical knowledge for the international operating lawyer.”
The workshop will assemble a “world-class and engaging faculty” with years of experience to guide lawyers and judges “through the labyrinth of international dispute resolution.”
The lecturers include Professor Gary Born, who is the world’s leading authority on international arbitration and litigation, and author of many publications on arbitration. He is the president of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Court of Arbitration and serves in an advisory capacity at other international institutions. 
Born is an honorary professor of law at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland and Tsinghua University, Beijing, and teaches regularly at law schools in Europe and Asia, as well as North and South America.
Other speakers in the event include Dr Petra Butler, professor at the Victoria University and  co-director of the Centre for Small States at Queen Mary, University of London; Dr Anthony Daimsis, professor of international commercial arbitration and legal writing at the University of Ottawa; Dr Michel Kallipetis, the former head of Littleton Chambers; Dr Douglas W Arner, professor of law at the University of Hong Kong; and Dr Andrew Dahdal, an assistant professor in Commercial Law at the College of Law, Qatar University. QICCA board member Sheikh Thani bin Ali al-Thani said: “We are very honoured to host such event that assembles the elite of international arbitrators and leading figures of law under one umbrella to discuss the best practices in international arbitration.”
On the first day, Daimsis and Butler will deliver the workshop ‘Advocacy Skills’, which will discuss language “as the lifeblood of legal work.” The participants will learn how to improve their written and oral communications skills by following steps suitable for native and non-native speakers alike.
The workshop will also include specialised exercises. 
Kallipetis, on the other hand, will lead the second day’s workshop on ‘International Commercial Mediation’, which will help participants understand, develop, and practice advocacy skills specifically relevant to mediation.
On the third day, Born will lead the workshop titled ‘International Arbitration’ and will review the international commercial arbitration as the single most important means to resolve cross-border commercial disputes today. 
This workshop provides participants with the fundamental legal and jurisdictional underpinnings of international commercial arbitration, the procedural mechanisms for conducting international commercial arbitrations, and will also discuss the enforcement of international commercial arbitration awards. 
Born will also lead the workshop ‘Qatar’s potential Role in the Diversity Debate’ on the fourth day, while on the fifth and last day, Professor Gordon Walker will be joined by Dahdal and Arner for the workshop on ‘International Financial Law’.


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