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Carr, Swanson and Randolph (CSR) provide a full range of trade,
international business transactions and market transition advice
and consulting services, in addition to their other work in developing
countries. Leading CSR;s economic development consulting practice
is Bob Randolph. He formerly served as Assistant Administrator
(AA) - Asia & Near East Bureau (Senate Confirmed) for USAID. As
AA, Bob Managed the transition to market economies in Jordan,
Morocco, Egypt, India, Vietnam and Indonesia.
From 1988 - 1991, Bob was Managing Director (CEO) of Chloride
Eastern Industries, Ltd. (CEIL), a Singapore public company with
businesses in a number of Asian emerging markets. As a former
CEO of a multi-national company Bob brings a unique hands-on"
perspective to economic growth, trade and privatization issues.
Having advised the Governor of Washington State on trade and
international economic development issues from 1994-1997, Bob
understands the importance of encouraging the free movement of
goods and capital as engines of economic growth. Bob is currently
advising the Bulgarian government on reform of its investment
laws in order to promote increased in-bound foreign investment
and trade, in addition to his work with CSR developing a commercial
mediation program in Croatia.
SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
- Bulgaria
CSR trained and certified 70 mediators to resolve cases referred
by the commercial courts and by the Bulgaria Chamber of
Commerce. One of CSR’s great successes was a court-referred
training provided to commercial court judges in Stara Zagora and
Plovdiv who became extraordinarily proficient in selecting
commercial cases from their crowded dockets and referring those
cases to the Stara Zagora Chamber of Commerce, during
“settlement week” and thereafter, where they were successfully
mediated by CSR trained mediators. In addition, CSR produced and
directed a Bulgarian language training video based on a CSR role
play.
Bulgaria
Foreign Direct Investment: CSR was the principal advisor to the
Bulgarian Government on enactment of a new foreign investment
law; reorganization of Foreign Investment Agency and creation of
a targeted sector FDI strategy (MSI 2004-2005)e cases that had
been clogging dockets for a decade or so.
Nepal
CSR designed and implemented a court connected appellate
mediation program for the Nepal Supreme Court and a commercial
mediation initiative for the Federated Nepali Chamber of
Commerce; and trained and certified 90 mediators to hear cases
referred by the appellate courts, as well as the Chamber. To our
knowledge, CSR’s Nepal program is the first appellate mediation
program launched in a developing country. Despite the political
troubles that Nepal was experiencing, CSR mediators participated
in an extremely successful settlement week that disposed of a
substantial backlog of cases, including some cases that had been
clogging dockets for a decade or so..
Egypt
CSR designed and implemented a USAID funded
commercial mediation centre within the Ministry of Investment in
Egypt (General Authority for Free Trade Zones and
Investment—known as GAFI) to hear, inter alia, shareholder
complaints against management and majority shareholders in
Egyptian companies, along with other corporate governance
issues. In particular, the new GAFI mediation centre will have
jurisdiction over complaints by foreign investor shareholders
against company management. To staff the GAFI Centre, CSR
trained (basic, advanced, practicum) and certified 50 Egyptian
mediators and has, in addition, provided administrative and
marketing training for centre staff. To our knowledge, this is
one of the first corporate governance mediation programs
launched outside the US and Western Europe. CSR provided ToT
(“Training of Trainers”) training to a select group of mediators
to ensure sustainability, and participants are currently
mediating cases and providing training for Egyptian students..
- Croatia
Carr Swanson & Randolph recently was awarded
a contract under USAID's Croatia Commercial Law Reform Project
to assist with the implementation of ADR in Commercial courts
and the business sector. Carr Swanson & Randolph is working
under contract with Booz Allen Hamilton to develop several pilot
ADR program(s) for both private provider and court annexed commercial
litigation dispute resolution.
Carr Swanson & Randolph also provided training in 2002 to Croatian
labor management representatives for the purposes of establishing
a more facilitative culture for collective bargaining, conflict
resolution and cooperative problem solving (3 programs for USAID
under Management Systems International and the American Center
for International Labor Solidarity) (2/02-7/02).
In addition, Carr Swanson & Randolph partners have extensive
prior experience in international dispute systems design, ADR
training, facilitation and all aspects of conflict prevention/resolution.
- Kashmir
Training in conflict resolution for Azad
Kashmiri parliamentarians and civil society leaders (in the
United States (3/01, 7/00 and 2/00).
- Guatemala
Training of senior government officials and
of civil society leaders from Columbia, Guatemala and other
Latin American countries in public dialogue and consensus building
processes (US Institute of Peace program) (9/00).
- Argentina
Extensive training for senior government
mediators and assistance in creating mediation initiatives (9-10/99).
- Dominican Republic
Training in mediation and conflict resolution
to senior diplomats and leaders of civil society in member states
of the Organization of American States with US Institute of
Peace Training staff (6/99).
- Sweden
Training of UN Peacekeeping forces (12/98).
- Panama
Facilitation, mediation training and systems
design assistance to the government of Panama in the creation
of an independent Panamanian mediation service (1996-1998).
- Greece
Training for senior diplomats from Balkan
countries in mediation and conflict resolution (9/97and 12/97,
both with US Institute of Peace Training staff).
- Cyprus
Mediation training for bi-communal representatives
(10/97).
- Bosnia
Facilitation of privatization issues (10/98),
facilitation of rail industry seminar/training (5/97), facilitation
of initiatives on privatization in the power sector (4/97).
- India
Negotiations training for the senior staff
of the Office of Information and International Relations, Tibetan
Government-in-exile (10/96).
- Japan and Korea
Mediation training to joint American, Japanese
and Korean civilian and military personnel (1994).i>
Dispute Resolution | Partnering | Systemic
Change | Training
and Education
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