The chairman of AFSA, advocate Michael Kuper SC, said that the qualification enables graduates to master essential skills in all aspects of dispute resolution which will be of enormous value to them, their employers and their clients.
The certificate is aimed at building a body of expertise in ADR in South Africa and offers legal practitioners, accountants, trade union personnel, human resource and labour practitioners as well as contract negotiators and business people in all fields, the opportunity to acquire or improve their skills in the expanding fields of arbitration, mediation and negotiation.
The course is jointly offered and accredited by AFSA and the University of Pretoria and is presented by South Africa's leading practitioners in arbitration, mediation and negotiation. The Advanced Certificate is internationally recognised and AFSA graduates with legal qualifications are automatically eligible to join the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in the United Kingdom as members and AFSA graduates without legal qualifications are entitled to join as associates.
