Our Partner Prof. Nazareth Romero, FCIArb develop her latest article in El Economista – Iuris & Lex Buen Gobierno y RSC Nº 88, Director Xavier Gil Pecharromán, previous her intervention as Chair Iberian Chapter in the Annual Conference EU Branch CIArb.
https://www.eleconomista.es/opinion/noticias/13322656/04/25/el-darwinismo-en-la-resolucion-alternativa-de-conflictos-adr-ahora-llamados-masc.htmlHow arbitration and mediation adapt to changes in the operating environment is the main topic that we will develop from April 24 to 26th, 2025 in Athens at the Annual Conference of the European Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – CIArb.
It will provide us with profound reflection, developed through six panels resulting from the concretization of the organizing committee, of which I was a member, on the evolution, improvement, and detailed analysis surrounding: Self-regulation – the last hope for autonomy in international arbitration or a threat to it?; The continuous evolution of arbitration institutions’ policies and practices to meet users’ needs; Arbitration and the courts: is faith in arbitration slipping?; Mediation 2.0 – Panacea or placebo? Is mediation achieving its promise?; Emerging trends in the resolution of construction disputes; Arbitration and the maritime industry: charting a strait course in a multipolar world.
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Experts from diverse cultures and traditions of legal science will meet to contribute our best understanding of Darwinian evolution from the cradle of civilization in Athens. I remark here for all the experts Stelios Gregoriu, FCIArb President of the Greek Chapter, of the European Branch of CIArb and Managing Partner of Gregoriu Law, who has been a builder of understanding in the management of this diverse program, in his inaugural speech on November 22th 2024, for the creation of the Greek Chapter, he already analysed Greece’s geostrategic position as a global centre of arbitration and concluded with a call to all to action to disseminate ADRs. This is how I can summarize today: history and geography make us believe, create what we call: Mare Nostrum, oceans that unite us, a tangible objective that invites for cooperation. Stelios Gregoriu together with his Management Team of the Greek Chapter European Branch CIArb, formed by: Victoria Liouta, Haris Meidanis, George Lambrou, Vasso Koumpli, Dimitris Emvalomenos, Theophile Margellos have contributed to creating a valid symbiosis for a legal journey to deepen from the cradle of Law emulating Darwin in his attentive observation of tangible reality.
Looking back in 2013, the CEDE Foundation published Opportunities for Directives in Adverse Scenarios, the New Era of Leadership, in collaboration with KPMG, the ESADE Chair of Leadership and Democratic Governance. They produced the third of their Notebooks through the analysis of Àngel Castiñeira, director of the study and holder of the Chair, being President of KPMG John Scott and forming part of the editorial board: Fernando García Ferrer, José Mª Jordá , Pedro León y Francia, Pau Mas, Raimon Ribera, Segor Teclesmayer .
It’s true that I was there and I was able to see how Darwin was also present. Everyone is still present today, because, following Charles Darwin: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one most adaptable to change.” He also stated: “A man who dares to waste an hour has not discovered the value of life.” Being Directive as being Arbitrator, adaptation makes us follow a process of discarding, preserving, and incorporating into our genetic code how loss, cloning, and innovation lead to a combination of experiments that move us toward resilient, adaptive, entrepreneurial, transformational, and responsible leadership. It is not a utopia it is our recent Spanish Law 1/2025 on measures regarding the efficiency of the Public Justice Service, which incorporates adequate methods for resolving disputes, with the acronym MASC, this is a challenge to Charles Darwin’s entelechy, although it represents a construction that combines trust, legal certainty, transparency, and a dose of reflection in the execution of the noble culture of understanding.
In Athens we will be with Stelios Gregoriu , Stathis Kalyvas , Phillip Landolt, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Crina Baltag, Christian Filios, Anna Iacovou Stylianou, Athina Fouchard Papaefstratiou, Tarek Badawy, Ziva Filipic, Kevin Nash, Niamh Leinwather, Gökçe Uyar, Patrizia Sangalli, Bennar Aydoğdu , Dimitris Babiniotis, Jil El Ahdab, Haris Meidanis, Stavros Pavlou , Vicky Liouta, Tomasz Cyrol , Marc Jackson, Vassiliki Koumpli, Marina K. Vassiliou, Christopher Chinn, Agis Georgiades, Sevag Panossian, Maria Paschou, Jeremy Peirani , George Lambrou, Jonathan Wood, Evangelos Catsambas, James Clanchy, Eva Litina, Nazareth Romero and all those attending the debate with the panellists who, like you, the reader, can take on the challenge of being present.
And, as in the city of Praia, capital of the Cape Verde Islands since 1858, visited by Charles Darwin on his voyage aboard the ship SM Beagle and where he began his diary, observing the reality of the world that he was discovering at his feet, allowing him to create science that we today reorganize to our best understanding, perhaps we will see how Viktor Frankl said, “Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it flees. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and gently lands on your shoulder. Happiness is not a landing place on the road, but a way of walking through life. When we cannot change the situation we face, the challenge is to change ourselves”.