Austin Gamey, Chief Executive Officer of Gamey and Gamey Academy of Mediation, a non-governmental organization has said that Africans have the capacity to resolve crises on the continent and do not necessarily need the assistance from foreign donors. "The over reliance on foreign donors unnecessarily for the resolution of the continent's crises only complicates the problems on the continent because African problems are far different from that of our foreign donors", he observed. Mr Gamey said this at the opening of a five-day Advance Mediation Certificate Programme in Ho for people in mediation. The workshop, organized by Gamey and Gamey Mediation in collaboration with the Mediation Training Institute (MTI), Africa and Pulse Institute of Calgory, Canada attracted participants from Ghana and Sierra Leone. It was to re-energize people already in mediation to be able to face the changes in today's mediation process. Mr Gamey said mediation remained an important way of ensuring that disputants were assisted to resolve issues by themselves and urged African leaders to make use of certified mediators on the continent for Africa's growth in " this time of donor fatigue". He stressed that donors have their own problems thus there was the need for leaders on the continent to look within and use their own people who know the problems better to help resolve its numerous troubles. Steve Critchery, a Canadian Certified Mediator and a resource person, advised participants against the imposition of decisions on disputants and urged them to put emphasis on bringing disputants to the conversation table for them to resolve their own disputes. Professor Kofi Quashigah, President of the Ghana Association of Certified Mediators and Arbitrators on behalf of the participants expressed his appreciation to the organizers for the workshop. He said mediation creates the opportunity for people to have an alternative for easy dispute resolution other than the traditional courts. He expressed the hope that participants would be equipped to offer the highest quality of service to reduce the pressure on the law courts.Source: GNA