What we talked about:
- Armenia’s judiciary is extremely under resourced; as a consequence, there is an extremely long backlog of the docket.
- Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is one of the ways other jurisdictions have found it helpful to relieve some of that backlog.
- The Armenia Center for Dispute Resolution, a newly established NGO, is a response to some of the deficiencies in the current functioning of the Armenian judiciary.
- ADR is separate from the formal state judicial system. It should be an independent and private organization; the judiciary must be arbitration friendly.
