Adriana Schiffrin Essay Prize
About Adriana Schiffrin

Adriana Schiffrin graduated as a lawyer from the National University of Buenos Aires and devoted herself to the private exercise of her profession and to university teaching.

She specialized in mediation and other techniques of conflict resolution both in Argentina and in the United States, and gave Seminars on Negotiation at Harvard University Law School, among others. She was a certified mediator for the Ministry of Justice of the Nation, co-director of the Neighborhood Mediation Center in Belgrano and a member of the Commission of Mediation of the College of Lawyers of the City of Buenos Aires.

She was co-author and co-compiler of Mediación: una transformación en la cultura, (Editorial Paidós, 1996). She also wrote countless articles on her speciality in professional publications and in publications of general interest.

Adriana Schiffrin was a member of the teaching team of the then Centro Regional de Investigación y Capacitación (Regional Center for Research and Training) - SUSTENTAR in FARN, acting as co-director of the module on Facilitation and Mediation in conflicts on the Environment and Development.

She was a member of Consenso Ambiental - Facilitadores y Mediadores para el Desarrollo Sustentable (Environmental Consensus - Facilitators and Mediators for Sustainable Development), a group associated to FARN which, during its management, concentrated on the development of environmental mediation and negotiation as part of an alternative resolution of conflicts, a fundamental element in what has been defined as "governance for sustainability", a core subject for this Foundation.