I just discovered this website, which includes interviews with experienced mediators on a variety of topics (and also has written transcripts of all interviews). A very interesting tool for new and experienced mediators, and also trainers.
Just seen in the inbox, an invitation to submit and article and attend a scholarship round-table at Washington University Negotiation & Dispute Resolution Program
Dear friends –
Washington University Negotiation & Dispute Resolution Program will host a scholarship roundtable Friday, November 15, 2013, focused on “New Directions in Global Negotiation & Dispute Resolution,” in conjunction with the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. Papers will be published in the spring volume of the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy. There are openings for 2-3 additional articles. If you have an article in progress in this area, please submit an abstract for publication consideration of at least one page (or more) by September 1, 2013.
The Negotiation & Dispute Resolution Program hosts biannual “New Directions” roundtables that bring together academics and practitioners at the forefront of negotiation and dispute resolution scholarship, teaching, and practice, with the goal of generating cutting-edge scholarship in the field. Articles published in the “New Directions” series in the past three years are listed below and can be accessed on line at: http://law.wustl.edu/journal/pages.aspx?ID=703 Frequently, the articles have drawn on the intersection of clinical and dispute resolution theory and practice.
Whether you are publishing in the upcoming volume or not, we welcome you to participate. We hope you will join us!
Best,
Karen
Karen Tokarz
Charles Nagel Professor of Public Interest Law & Public Service
Director, Negotiation & Dispute Resolution Program
Washington University School of Law
One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1120
St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
Office: 314.935.6414, Cell: 314.422.0354
The James Cook University Law Review special edition on Conflict Resolution (2012, Volume 9) has recently been released. It contains some great articles from members of the ADR Research Network, including:
There are also articles by Judith Herrmann on the Transitional Justice Measures Incorporated by Rwandan Gacaca and Priyanka Saha on Conflict Coaching in Schools.
A thoughtful plea for lawyers to collaborate rather than compete in mediation by Jerome Weiss. Avoids the well-trodden path of Getting to Yes : http://www.mediate.com/articles/WeissSlow.cfm
Living with ‘ADR’: Evolving Perceptions and Use of Mediation, Arbitration and Conflict Management in Fortune 1,000 Corporations has been published by Thomas Stipanowich, J. Ryan Lamare on SSRN.
It reports on the most recent results of their longitudinal study of the attitudes of corporate counsel of Fortune 1000 companies towards dispute resolution.
What they find is at least moderately encouraging, “many companies today appear to be employing strategies aimed at deliberate, proactive and systematic assessment of conflicts in the early stages— perhaps even the first sixty days — in order to lay the groundwork for business decisions about their forward management.”
The 6th Asia Pacific Mediation Forum Summit will be held at De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines from December 9-11, 2013. The Conference theme is “Mediation in a Globalizing World: Challenges to Multi-Culturalism, Peace-Building, and Religious Tolerance.”
According to the conference website:
Topics to be explored through presentations, panel discussions, open forums, and group dialogues during the conference include:
Business and Mediation
Mediation and Conflict Resolution/Transformation of Religious, Ethnic, Ideological, and Resource Management
Mediation and Politics
Mediation and the Media
Mediation and Public Policy
Mediation and Peace and Security
Mediation and Human Rights
Mediation and Education
Mediation, Gender and Development
Family Mediation and Family Violence (Violence Against Women and Children).
Mediation and the Courts
Mediation and Armed Conflicts
Global Trends in MediationProspective delegates of the Summit are invited to submit an abstract no more 500 words, and a short biography of no more than 500 words, on any of the above topics through apmf2013Summit@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is the close of business, May 30, 2013 (Philippine time, GMT+8:00). Accepted abstracts will be announced on June 9, 2013.
Full details can be found online at http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/conferences/apmf/
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