The Advisory & Risk Management Bureau (ARMB) is part of Praxis Forum’s Neutral Third Party Services, which combine innovative Public Health Practice with Dispute Prevention and Resolution principles. Our hybrid practice combines two distinct methodologies to improve overall performance and achieve specific policy, health equity and social justice objectives.
Jennifer Braga is Praxis Forum's—Founder and Neutral Third Party Advisor. She holds a Master's of Public Administration, Graduate education in Health Law and Policy (L.L.M.), and is a trained civil and commercial mediator and arbitrator. Her practice operates on a "high-intervention, high-empathy" dispute prevention model. Her methodology borrows from public health approaches by centering on proactive protection, community empowerment, and structural neutrality to stop conflicts from escalating within imbalanced power dynamics.
Praxis Forum is dedicated to the advancement of education and research into innovative alternative dispute prevention and resolution methods, with a focus on promoting non-dual, non-violent, human rights-based, non-symptomatic and therapeutic approaches, directed at eliminating or reducing risks and correcting imbalances.
Under federal and provincial jurisdictions in Canada, public sector dispute prevention and resolution (DPR) focuses primarily on mitigating systemic friction, correcting power imbalances, and managing legal conflicts outside traditional courtrooms. Backed by Dispute Prevention and Resolution policies, practice of dispute prevention and resolution relies heavily on interest-based, non-adversarial strategies. Both federal and provincial frameworks deliberately move away from adversarial litigation to focus on collaborative, systemic problem-solving.
Key Public Sector Practice Areas at Praxis Forum: