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Professor Nadja Alexander

Adjunct Professor

Nadja Alexander joined the Australian Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies (ACPACS) in February 2004. Prior to joining ACPACS she was the foundation Director of the Dispute Management Centre at the TC Beirne School of Law. She has extensive experience as a mediation practitioner, researcher, trainer and educational consultant in Australia, Europe, the U.S. and Asia.

Nadja is well known for her innovation, energy and creativity in teaching, training and dispute resolution contexts. In addition, Nadja's international education and experience bring a global perspective and interdisciplinary insight to her work. These qualities have been recognised through numerous awards for curriculum design and teaching innovation. Since 1994 Nadja has been the recipient of five Excellence in Teaching awards. In 1997 she won the inaugural Australian Award for University Teaching in Law and Legal Studies. In 1998 Business Woman Magazine named her as one of Australia'a top five female academics; and in 1999 she was a finalist in the Telstra Australian Business Woman of the Year Awards.

As a sought-after presenter for ADR and mediation congresses, Nadja regularly conducts a range of conflict resolution workshops for professional, academic, government and community organizations. Recent international key-note addresses were held at the ICLEF Law Conference (Indianapolis 2004), Law, Conflict and Culture Congress (Graz, Austria 2003), Mediation and Culture Conference (Vienna 2003), XIVth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Brisbane 2002) and two keynotes at the German National Mediation Conference (Göttingen 2003 and Münster 2001). As Director of Practice at ACPACS, Nadja mediates a wide variety of workplace, discrimination, cross-cultural and community conflict and is also an active member of a number of external mediation panels.

Research Interests

Comparative and international Mediation
Mediating Across dIfference; cross-cultural mediation
Mediation as an interface between customary law and western forms of formal justice

Qualifications

BA Qld, Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland 1986,
LLB (Hons) Qld, Bachelor of Laws, The University of Queensland 1999
Diploma in International Studies, The University of Vienna , Austria
LLM, Tübingen, Master of Laws, The University of Tübingen , Germany
Dr. jur. (summa cum laude) Tübingen, Equivalent Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The University of Tübingen , Germany
MBTI accreditation, Brisbane
NLP accreditation, Brisbane

Professional Activities

Member of the Dispute Resolution Council of Queensland , Australia
Member of the ADR Committee of the Queensland Law Society
Member of the Mediation Jury in Germany
Editor for International Mediation Developments for the World
Arbitration and Mediation Report, Juris , New York
Editorial panel member for the ADR Bulletin, Richmond Publishers, Sydney
Editorial panel member for Perspektive Mediation, an Austrian journal on mediation.
Country Correspondent for International Dispute Resolution, Sellier, European Law Publishers

Representative Publications

Books

ALEXANDER, N. (ed.) Global Trends in Mediation, Otto Schmidt Publishing, Cologne 2003.
ALEXANDER, N. Wirtschaftsmediation in Theorie und Praxis* Peter Lang Publishing, Frankfurt, 1999. 318 pages. *English Translation: "Commercial Mediation in Theory and Practice"
SPEGEL, N., Rogers , B. & Buckley, R., Negotiation: Theories and Techniques, Butterworths, 1998, Sydney , Australia .

Book Chapters

ALEXANDER, N. "Global Trends in Mediation – Riding the Third Wave" in ALEXANDER, N. (ed.) Global Trends in Mediation, Otto Schmidt Publishing, Cologne 2003.
ALEXANDER, N. et al "Mediation in Germany : The long and winding road" in ALEXANDER, N. (ed.) Global Trends in Mediation, Otto Schmidt Publishing, Cologne 2003.
ALEXANDER, N. ""Internationale Entwicklungen der gerichtsnahen Mediation" in Ferz, S. (ed.) Rechtskultur – Streitkultur – Mediation: Die Reaktivierung von verlorener Selbstverantwortung und abgegebener Eigenkompetenz Hamburg, Verlag Dr Kovac 2003, 39-57.
ALEXANDER, N. & Carlson, T. "Adventure in the Name of Peace" in Peacebuilding for Adolescents: Strategies for Teachers and Community Leaders, Peter Lang Publishing, New York , 1999, 161 - 175.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

ALEXANDER, N. "The chameleon mediator" 6 (9) ADRB 2004, 165.
ALEXANDER, N. "When your multi-cultural dinner party conversation becomes an international mediation" 6 (8) ADRB 2004, 145.
ALEXANDER, N. "What's law got to do with it? Mapping Modern Mediation movements" Vol 13 (2) Bond Law Review, Special Issue: Dispute Resolution (2001) 325.
ALEXANDER, N., `From Communities to Corporations: the Growth of Mediation in Sri Lanka ' 4(1) The ADR Bulletin (2001) 8.
Republished March 2002 in Mediate.com - the Australasian chapter www.mediate.com . Republished a second time in 12 (9) WAMR(2002).
ALEXANDER, N. `Mediation in Practice: Common Law and Civil Law Perspectives Compared' International Trade and Business Law Annual, (2001) VI, 1.
ALEXANDER (formerly SPEGEL), N. "Australian Lawyer Attitudes to Mediation", (1998) NLR 1-15.