Project M for Mediation (Project M) is a year-long campaign that celebrates mediation. 

Amongst others, it aims to:

• train 1,000 selected individuals in mediation through the Mediation Masterclass so that a robust state-wide network of competent mediation professionals, including mediators and mediation advocates, can be developed; and

• reach out to 100,000 individuals through Mediation 360, creating a favourable ecosystem where stakeholders fully understand, appreciate and utilise mediation as a dispute resolution tool.

It is estimated that over 250,000 human hours will be spent on Project M in 2024. 

See the Full List of M for Mediation Events.

Beneficiaries 

A broad spectrum of individuals and institutions benefits from Project M - from professionals (including legal and management professionals), students (including law, management and senior school students), government servants, elected representatives and business people to law and management schools, companies of all kinds, professional bodies, local self-governments and courts.

Organisers

Project M is conceived as a movement in which everyone has a part to play. Everyone is a volunteer. Everyone matters, everyone gets to participate, and everyone benefits. 

See Partners & People.

Project M germinates from the understanding that: 

• mediation, owing to its innate qualities, is a unique mechanism to resolve disputes, and it is capable of providing an effective alternative to litigation (a system that is laden with an overload of cases) and arbitration (that can be expensive and logistically complex); 

• mediation, being a party-driven process that can potentially preserve the relationship between the parties post-resolution and be cost- and time-effective, is well-suited to resolve commercial and several other types of disputes, but is not adequately utilised in the resolution of such disputes;

• while the enactment of the Mediation Act 2023 provides the much-needed impetus to mediation in India, the statute requires a supporting ecosystem to achieve its objectives; and

• creating meaningful awareness of mediation - its features, process and benefits - among the stakeholders, training professionals to conduct mediation competently, and facilitating the coming together of the mediation fraternity are some of the ways to forge a conducive culture in favour of mediation.

During 2024. Project M has already commenced. 

See the Full List of M for Mediation Events.

At multiple locations in Kerala. Project M covers the whole of Kerala.