CPR Announces New Co-Chair for Diversity in ADR Task Force

New York, NY – The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), a global non-profit organization that helps others manage conflict so that they might better pursue their purpose, is pleased to announce a new co-chair for its National Task Force on Diversity in ADR.

The mission of the National Task Force on Diversity in ADR is to devise practical strategies to increase the participation and inclusion of women, persons of color, members of the LGBTQ community, persons living with disabilities, and other under-represented groups in mediation, arbitration and other dispute prevention and resolution processes around the world.

The new co-chair is Carol Hannud of Pact Insights in São Paulo, Brazil. She joins current co-chair Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., of Arnold & Porter, Columbia Law School, and Fordham University School of Law.

Carol Hannud is a Legal Designer, Consultant, Mediator and Conflict Management Systems Designer. She is Head of Consultancy and Business Development at Brazilian legal tech group Pact Insights. She is a Professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law responsible for legal design, dispute system design, negotiation and intellectual property in the Globalized Economy courses. She also serves on the CPR Brazilian Advisory Board.

Kabir Duggal, Ph.D., is Senior International Arbitration Advisor at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, where he focuses on international arbitration serving as arbitrator, mediator and counsel. Duggal is Senior Fellow and Advisor at the Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School, where he is also a Lecturer-in-Law and Managing Editor of The American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law. Duggal is a co-founder of R.E.A.L. – Racial Equality for Arbitration Lawyers, a group of global lawyers practicing in international arbitration and striving to achieve racial equality for all arbitration lawyers.

“CPR is delighted to welcome Carol Hannud, a legal dispute system design visionary and advocate for inclusion, as co-chair of CPR’s National Task Force on Diversity in ADR. Carol’s work in Brazil, her homeland, has been both inspiring and influential, and we look forward to her contributions to the Task Force. Carol knows firsthand that corporate initiatives that create a welcoming environment lead to gains in both human welfare and the bottom line,” said CPR President and CEO Serena Lee.

CPR is committed to encouraging all forms of diversity, equity and inclusion in dispute resolution, with a particular focus on increasing the number of diverse neutrals selected to mediate or arbitrate disputes, as well as increasing the opportunities for diverse attorneys appearing before neutrals, to enhance the accessibility and acceptance of ADR, and to ensure that all available talent is deployed in support of dispute management.

ABOUT CPR:
Established in 1977, CPR is an independent nonprofit organization that promotes the prevention and resolution of conflict to better enable the pursuit of purpose through the CPR Institute and its subsidiary, CPR Dispute Resolution Services LLC.

The CPR Institute builds capacity for dispute prevention and resolution through the thought leadership of its diverse members – companies, leading mediators and arbitrators, law firms, individual practitioners, and academics – who share best practices and develop innovative tools for dispute management through committee discussions and projects, publications, education and training, and hosting events.

CPR Dispute Resolution is a responsive, user-focused provider of dispute management services – arbitration, mediation, custom appointing services, a panel of dispute prevention specialists, and more - that leverages resources generated by the CPR Institute. The case administrators are responsive, efficient, and detail oriented, and have extensive backgrounds in alternative dispute resolution (ADR). The Panel of Distinguished Neutrals is a carefully curated, diverse group of prominent, experienced subject matter and ADR professionals on over 30 specialty panels. And CPR Dispute Resolution’s Complete Case platform, a holistic end-to-end digital environment designed for ADR, handles matters efficiently and securely. To learn more about CPR Dispute Resolution, visit drs.cpradr.org.

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