The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) has sold its dispute resolution provider service, IDRS Ltd., to the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CeDR). Both organizations see the sale as the beginning of a closer, mutually beneficial, relationship.
The provider program at issue, IDRS Ltd., administers a range of dispute resolution programs in the area of consumer complaints and complaints between businesses and public sector organizations. As a result of the sale, IDRS will continue as a going concern under CeDR’s umbrella, and CIArb will concentrate on its core business as a professional and membership body.
Both organizations look forward to cooperating with respect to research that will further both CIArb’s responsibilities as a chartered learned society and CeDR’s estimable reputation as an innovator of dispute management approaches. They are planning to co-host a joint mediation event in early 2012 on the theme of future research in ADR.