Have you ever heard of restorative justice and wondered about how it applies to mediation? In this article, we introduce Dr. Vahit Bicak, who is a leading promoter of restorative justice and its application in mediation. As both a Turkish legal practitioner and scholar, Dr. Bicak’s insights reveal the power of mediation to transform legal structures to more effectively serve citizens.

As the founder of the Just and Fair Mediation Centre in Turkey, Dr. Biçak has mediated more than 200 disputes in Turkey in the last eight years and is known to be an expert mediator for employment, commercial, consumer, energy and mine, and health disputes.