JEDDAH: The Makkah International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration has launched a program to award a diploma for local and international arbitration. The program will train Saudi and expatriate arbitrators in the Kingdom in preparation for registering them for international commercial arbitration and work in the Center, officials said. The program is being launched in collaboration with the Prince Sultan College for Tourism and Business, in the Abha Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Center has signed an agreement with the College to provide instructors, prepare training portfolios and subjects, boost the Center's role in disseminating the culture of arbitration and alternative means for solving disputes. The objective is to achieve cooperation between the two parties and provide a professional diploma to people interested in learning arbitration and correctly working on cases, according to the Saudi Arbitration Regulation, as well as international arbitration, according to laws and norms. Dr. Fahd Bin Mushbib Aal Khufair Al-Shamrani, secretary general of the Center, said the professional diploma in arbitration would be based on scientific rules and principles recognized in universities, under full supervision of the Prince Sultan College for Tourism and Business, which has scientific and practical experience in the field. He said the diploma will be provided to a wide range of people such as engineers, accountants, lawyers, people in the judiciary, staff of the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution and Administrative Control Authority and doctors. Dr. Ali Bin Issa Al-Sha'bi, dean of the Prince Sultan College for Tourism and Business, said that by launching this program, the Center and College aim to develop regulations that encourage arbitration, provide all legal services to citizens and help settle commercial and civil disputes that might erupt between them.
