Key Features of EDRMP or

Empowering Dispute Resolution

Management Processes

• inclusive
• voluntary and participatory
• culturally sensitive
• responsive to the sources and effects of power
imbalance
• information-and analysis-oriented
• systemic yet flexible and creative
• non-violent
• educative
Inclusive
• Framed within the right based and gender responsive
framework
• ensuring that all women and men, groups and sectors
with stake in the resolution of a dispute must be
represented

Voluntary and participatory

• A mutually beneficial solution to the dispute rest on the
parties
• Lasting or sustained resolution can be achieved if
parties willingly go through the process and commit to
comply with result
Culturally sensitive
• Patterned in ways of thinking, feeling and reacting,
acquired and transmitted mainly by symbols
• The essential core of culture consists of traditional ideas
and specially their attached values

Responsive to the sources and effects of power imbalance

• Providing stakeholders with equal representation and

voice in the process
• A process where all rights and interest are
acknowledged and recognized
Non-violent

• Does not support any kind of violence specially armed

violence
Information and Analysis oriented
• There should be an assessment on the presence of key
ingredients of an effective dispute resolution process
• A process design that is based on the analysis of the
dispute
• Analysis of the power relations of the parties

Systematic yet flexible and creative

• Guided by organized concepts, principles and
approaches
• However, EDRM/P is not limited or restricted to these
systematic approaches but are continually being
developed based on experiences
Educative
• Parties learn methods which can be used in the future
 Characteristics of the outcomes of EDRMP

Outcomes that are mutually beneficial and fair

to all parties, and that provide comprehensive
solution to substantive and relationship issues
in dispute