Dr. Muigua while making his contribution noted that the question of Viability of Arbitration in management of climate change related disputes in Kenya arises because many arbitrators have taken the position that they have nothing to do with climate change, have nothing to do with debates on climate change, which according to him, they refer to them as being academic. The paper he noted explores whether they are academic, or Arbitrators or Arbitration can deal with those disputes, adding that climate change brings with it water scarcity, crop failure, insecurity etc. noting that climate change gets covered in projects contracts.

Mr. Peter Mwangi Muriithi while commenting on his article titled Critiquing the place of International Arbitration in Regional Courts in Africa noted the similarities and differences between the East African Court of Justice and the COMESA courts, going into detail on the kind of disputes the courts handle, and calling for harmonization of the two institutions. He noted that the article explores the term ‘International Arbitration’ observing that there was no one word definition of the term but gave guideline on what can be termed as international arbitration. The last article to be reviewed was by Dr. Muigua titled Evolving Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice: Investing in Digital Dispute Resolution in Kenya, where he discussed three key developments namely online mediation, online commercial arbitration, and block chain arbitration. Dr. Muiga noted that the article had been written in 2018 at a time when he was trying to persuade arbitrators and practitioners to adopt digital platforms. He noted that despite reservation at the time by practitioners, most of the proposals have already been put into effect. He noted that the article looks at the evolution of technology which he observed that it was fast requiring the need to look at the rules, investment in digital technology. He noted that practitioners had caught up with ODR (Online Dispute Resolution) adding that it has been quite viable, especially in the advent of Covid 19. The paper makes recommendations to embrace and invest in digital dispute resolution platforms while taking all practitioners on board. This includes recommendations for e-literacy, data privacy concerns, enhancing legal and institutional frameworks, and investing in affordable digital technology. The moderator ended the session and encouraged participants to make an effort to read the articles and informed them of the call for articles for the 3rd NCIA journal, noting that there were many areas to be explored and themes to be discussed. He urged the Centre to find ways to address some of the challenges presented by authors as it continues with executing its mandate of promoting ADR as a referred dispute resolution mechanism.