Dispute Prevention Resource Centre
Prevent the dispute, or minimize its severity.
A wide variety of information, tools and documents for the whole sport community, much of it available through powerful databases, and all of it open to everyone through the Internet.
What you will find
- Practical advice on preventing and managing conflict inside sport organizations.
- Templates for clauses and policies that organizations can adopt before a dispute exists.
- A newsletter, articles and other publications, including the Centre's annual reports, corporate plans and strategic plan.
- Success stories and academic research papers on dispute prevention and resolution in sport.
- Team Selection Guidelines and Tips for Athletes, among the new educational resources developed in 2025 to 2026.
- Safe Sport resources, gathered under a dedicated Safe Sport tab on the Centre's website.
Education and outreach
The Resource Centre delivered 32 workshops and presentations during 2025 to 2026, and distributed dispute prevention and resolution tools and resources with the Centre's kiosk at sport community events. With the additional federal funding announced in October 2026, the legal aid program and the Resource Centre will be expanded, increasing access to educational resources, training opportunities and dispute prevention tools for the Canadian sport community.
For questions about workshops and webinars, outreach activities or educational resources, contact the education team.
Decisions and jurisprudence
Decisions rendered by arbitrators are part of the Resource Centre's collection. The Centre has improved access to its case law database by creating a collection on the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) website: all public decisions from 2023 to 2026 are available there, and previous decisions will be added gradually. A decision template consistent with CanLII's prioritized standards supports the collection. On the Centre's own site, the jurisprudence database can be searched directly from the homepage.