Praxis Forum was created to provide fair, effective and accessible Alternative Dispute Prevention and Resolution services to underserved populations at a greater risk of experiencing health inequities, social injustice, economic poverty, or discrimination due to structural barriers that limit access to foundational resources and opportunities.
Operationalizing Care-Based Variance Management
Praxis Forum is uniquely positioned to operationalize dispute resolution as a care-based variance management process by combining innovative public health practices with time-honoured dispute prevention and resolution principles. Our hybrid protocols combine these two distinct methodologies to improve overall process performance and achieve specific dispute prevention and resolution objectives, notably where conflicts involve policy, health equity, or social justice determinants.
Praxis Forum’s Neutral Third-Party Continuum
The Neutral Third-Party Continuum covers the following service streams:
Core Values
Praxis Forum is dedicated to advancing education and research into innovative alternative dispute prevention and resolution methods. The firm focuses on promoting non-dual, non-violent, human rights-based, non-symptomatic, and therapeutic approaches directed at eliminating or reducing risks and correcting power imbalances. Our core values include honesty, integrity, impartiality, procedural fairness, proportionality, and competence.
About Jennifer Braga, B.A., M.P.A.
Jennifer Braga is the Founder and Neutral Third-Party Advisor of Praxis Forum.
She is a former federal public servant with the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada (now Indigenous Services Canada). She holds a Master of Public Administration and graduate education in Health Law and Policy (LL.M.), and is also a trained civil and commercial mediator and arbitrator.
Her practice operates on a "high-intervention, high-empathy" dispute prevention and resolution model.Her methodology borrows from public health approaches by centering on proactive protection, party empowerment, and structural neutrality within imbalanced power dynamics.