Francis Ojok, LLM, MA,LLB

Our founder is an embodiment of our belief that conflict may be an opportunity for growth and positive change. He was born in the Northern Region of a small East African country of Uganda, in the midst of a brutal civil war. Throughout his childhood, he was forced to walk every night to sleep in hospital compounds to avoid being abducted and turned into a child soldier or killed; a fate many of his friends were not lucky enough to escape. He spent most of his life going to bed without the hope of waking up the next morning alive. To this day, he still remembers the horror of watching his own village being burnt down, his mother and grandparents being attacked, and his sister being abducted. 

Against this backdrop, he was left with a choice to either hate or to love, to revenge or to forgive, to accept war, killing as the norm for his country, or to transform his anger and frustration into a passion that would drive him to inspire change in his community the world.

The same passion that led him to law school. Ultimately to a private law firm as an Associate-where, he practiced civil, commercial, land, human rights, and domestic relation. Before moving to America to advance his studies and ultimately finding a new, loving home in America. Francis uses his legal and conflict resolution education, skills, and experience to create peace and bring harmony to the world one difficult conversation at a time.

We can’t change our past. We can accept and learn from it to reshape our future. It starts with a choice. A choice that inspired the founding of DC Mediation & Dispute Resolution.  Here, we are an agent of peace to enact the change our founder has spent his life wishing for. We are dedicated to creating peace in and beyond the District of Columbia by giving every disputant a voice in their dispute resolution and acting as a bridge.

Francis is a certified mediator. He’s International Mediation Institute’s qualified mediator. He’s certified by:

• International Mediation Campus, Europe

• The Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Division of DC Superior Court, Washington DC

• Interactive Management Associate, Arizona

 He holds 

• Master of Laws (LLM) from Pepperdine University

• Master of Arts (MA) in Conflict Resolution & Coexistence from Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy & Management

• Bachelor of Law (LLB) from Kampala International University, Uganda.

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