Community mediation in Malaysia: the legal perspectives

The efforts of the Government of Malaysia in maintaining harmony in the society began from the Independence Day. The mandate to maintain harmony was given to the Department of National Unity and Integration Malaysia, one of the departments under the Prime Minister Office. In 2007, the Department int...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Hak, Nora, Ambaras Khan, Hanna, Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	K Law (General)
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spelling	iium-419752018-06-29T01:58:44Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/41975/ Community mediation in Malaysia: the legal perspectives Abdul Hak, Nora Ambaras Khan, Hanna Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi K Law (General) The efforts of the Government of Malaysia in maintaining harmony in the society began from the Independence Day. The mandate to maintain harmony was given to the Department of National Unity and Integration Malaysia, one of the departments under the Prime Minister Office. In 2007, the Department introduced community mediation programme. The mediators are the Rukun Tetangga (Peaceful Neighbourhood) Committee. The purpose of Rukun Tetangga is to empower the people to resolve the problems facing by them in their neighbourhood amicably. The Department has trained 874 community mediators. The programme is important to ensure all issues involving different racial and religious groups are handled diligently to avoid any inter- racial and intra-racial tension. Various efforts have been made to ensure the success of the program. There are however, rooms to improve this programme. The objective of this paper is to study the laws pertaining to this programme. Currently, The Mediation Act 2012 is the laws applicable to mediation practice in Malaysia. The authors suggest that the community mediators’ training module is to be amended by the Department of National Unity and Integration Malaysia to incorporate the content and spirit of the Mediation Act 2012 in its training module. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/41975/1/1ICLAS3_ParallelSession_5June.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/41975/3/CMC_IN_MSIA_CHALLENGES_AND_PROSPECT_%281%29.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/41975/8/ICLAS_III_TURKEY_-_NORA.pdf Abdul Hak, Nora and Ambaras Khan, Hanna and Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi (2014) Community mediation in Malaysia: the legal perspectives. In: International Conference on Law and Society III (ICLAS III), 9th - 11th June 2014, Istanbul University, Turkey. (Unpublished) http://www.iium.edu.my/hmhlawcentre/events/international-conference-law-society-iii-iclas-iii
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description	The efforts of the Government of Malaysia in maintaining harmony in the society began from the Independence Day. The mandate to maintain harmony was given to the Department of National Unity and Integration Malaysia, one of the departments under the Prime Minister Office. In 2007, the Department introduced community mediation programme. The mediators are the Rukun Tetangga (Peaceful Neighbourhood) Committee. The purpose of Rukun Tetangga is to empower the people to resolve the problems facing by them in their neighbourhood amicably. The Department has trained 874 community mediators. The programme is important to ensure all issues involving different racial and religious groups are handled diligently to avoid any inter- racial and intra-racial tension. Various efforts have been made to ensure the success of the program. There are however, rooms to improve this programme. The objective of this paper is to study the laws pertaining to this programme. Currently, The Mediation Act 2012 is the laws applicable to mediation practice in Malaysia. The authors suggest that the community mediators’ training module is to be amended by the Department of National Unity and Integration Malaysia to incorporate the content and spirit of the Mediation Act 2012 in its training module.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdul Hak, Nora Ambaras Khan, Hanna Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi
author_facet	Abdul Hak, Nora Ambaras Khan, Hanna Ambaras Khan, Mushera Bibi
author_sort	Abdul Hak, Nora
title	Community mediation in Malaysia: the legal perspectives
title_short	Community mediation in Malaysia: the legal perspectives
title_full	Community mediation in Malaysia: the legal perspectives
title_fullStr	Community mediation in Malaysia: the legal perspectives
title_full_unstemmed	Community mediation in Malaysia: the legal perspectives
title_sort	community mediation in malaysia: the legal perspectives
publishDate	2014
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