Basics of Alternative Dispute Resolution

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Andrew Pirie is a professor of law at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Professor Pirie has a long-time relationship with the ADR movement. He was a founding director of the Mediation Development Association of British Columbia, Co-Chair of the Conflict Resolution Council of British Columbia, a member of the Fund for Dispute Resolution in Ontario, a Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa in 1985 teaching ADR, a litigation associate with the law firm of Osier, Hoskin and Harcourt, and the Executive Director of the UVic Institute for Dispute Resolution from 1989 to 1996. Professor Pirie teaches courses in Dispute Resolution: Theories and Skills, Mediation and Lawyers, Negotiation, and Civil Procedure, and he has conducted ADR training workshops in Canada and the United States and in other countries such as Cambodia, England, Fiji, and Thailand. Andrew has acted as a mediator in various dispute settings. He is co-editor of Qualifications for Dispute Resolution: Perspectives on the Debate and the author of several shorter works on ADR.