July 22, 2008
On July 21, St. John’s hosted the opening session of a weeklong
program in dispute resolution for faculty and students of the
Catholic University of Ghana as part of the program entitled
Project Reconciliation – Ghana 2008. Sponsored by the Giving
to Ghana Foundation and Feerick, Lynch, MacCartney, Esqs., this
project is an effort to help develop systems of alternative dispute
resolution in Ghana, where the formal legal system operates slowly
and has insufficient resources outside the major cities of Accra
and Kusami. It is part of an ongoing process to train
individuals to serve as arbitrators and mediators to resolve
conflicts that otherwise might take years to resolve or end in
violence. St. John’s law professors Paul
Kirgis, Ettie
Ward, Larry Cunningham, and Elayne Greenberg participated in
the program.