About the President

Richard Moore is the President of MDR Associates Conflict Resolution Inc. a company that specializes in all aspects of practice, consulting and training in mediation, conflict management and conflict resolution. Richard’s experience in dispute resolution is built upon a foundation of almost thirty years in the practice of law and two decades of conflict resolution work.

He is retired from his law practice and now works exclusively in conflict resolution, acting as a neutral third party delivering conflict coaching, mediation, facilitation, arbitration, and conflict management system design services to wide range of clientele in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.

He has mediated over twenty five hundred disputes including complex multi party conflicts. Areas where he has mediated include: commercial contracts, employment and workplace issues, health care issues, human rights, First Nations, estates, real estate, professional responsibility, personal injury, insurance, construction, family and property disputes.

In conflict management system design work, he has consulted internationally in Guyana and the Philippines in projects introducing mediation into the High Court of Guyana and the Philippine Supreme Court. He has taught mediation skills to traditional Amerindian chiefs in Guyana and to civil society leaders in Guinea Bissau, West Africa. He is a founder of the National Capital YM-YWCA Community Mediation and Peace Building Program and Chair of its Advisory Council.

For many years he was an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa Law School and taught negotiation and professional responsibility for the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Richard has taken leadership roles in the legal, ADR, and not for profit communities. He is a Past President of the Carleton County Law Association, a Past Chair of the National Capital Region YMCA-YWCA and a director of YMCA Canada. He currently serves as a director of ADR Institute of Ontario Inc.  

Richard has had significant other community volunteer involvement and in 1992 was presented with a Civilian Commendation from the Ottawa Police Services Board and in 2003 with the Gordon F. Henderson Award for volunteerism in the community.   

       

Richard had been granted the designations Chartered Mediator (C. Med.) and Chartered Arbitrator (C. Arb.) and Certified Family Mediator (CFM) from ADR Institute of Canada and the designation of Certified Mediator (Cert. Med. IMI) from the International Mediation Institute in The Hague.