The ADR Institute of Canada (ADRIC), is a non-profit organization that offers alternative dispute resolution services to its members and the public across the country.
This organization was a non-profit, non-government group operating out of Toronto whose mandate was to offer the Canadian public alternative dispute resolution services.
In 1986 AIC was renamed, becoming the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Canada (AMIC), with the aim of making the organization more national in scope.
In 1996 each region signed a Memorandum of Understanding with AMIC in order to make their relationship clear and establish a set of guiding principles to operate around.
In 1994 the Canadian Foundation for Dispute Resolution was founded as a non-profit alliance for business corporations and law firms pursuing ADR practices in Canada.
In Canada, ADR is used as an umbrella term to encapsulate all dispute resolution practices outside of litigation, such as mediation, negotiation, arbitration or restorative justice.
[8] Since the 1960s there has been an increasing interest in North America in pursuing an alternative path to dispute resolution outside of the traditional court system.