The Divided Community Project’s new fourth edition of Leading a Divided Campus: Ideas and Illustrations (4th ed) offers ideas for supporting students during conflict. Feel free to forward the link, go.osu.edu/dcpcampus4, to those you know in your university’s counsel, student affairs, ombuds, and security offices. DCP’s Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy (2023) … Continue reading Divided Community Project Publications – helping students in a time of conflict →

FOI, Professor Stacie Strong will be publishing her groundbreaking article on Artificial Intelligence and Arbitration in an upcoming issue of the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. Here is the abstract and the link to download: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5239069 Artificial Intelligence in Civil Justice Systems: An Empirical and Interdisciplinary Analysis and Proposal for Moving Forward (May 02, … Continue reading Stacie Strong on Artificial Intelligence and Arbitration in Ohio State’s Journal on Dispute Resolution →

I’m so pleased to post about our outstanding scholars and practitioners who won this year’s Section on Dispute Resolution Awards. I’m especially happy and proud this year as Grande was the first Director of Moritz’s Divided Community Project and Amy is my amazing, talented, and extremely hard-working colleague. Looking forward to the celebrations at the … Continue reading Congratulations to the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution 2025 Award Winners →

I am sad to see that FMCS had to cancel its annual symposium: The 43rd FMCS Arbitration SymposiumHas Been Canceled.________________________________________Due to recent executive orders impacting our services, FMCS regrets to inform you that this event has been canceled.

Ohio State’s Program on Dispute Resolution is thrilled to invite you to the 2024 Lawrence Lecture on Dispute Resolution featuring Georgetown Law Professor Ariel Eckblad!  Register here: https://go.osu.edu/eckblad. Scheduled for Tuesday September 17 (beginning at 12:10 eastern), Professor Eckblad will present “The Water We Swim In: Negotiating Power and Possibility”. Here is a brief description: … Continue reading Georgetown’s Ariel Eckblad to Deliver Moritz’s 2024 Lawrence Lecture →

Our field has a great deal to offer campus leaders, who involuntarily joined us as dispute resolution practitioners as they dealt with campus conflicts related to the Middle East violence. Many campus leaders are now engaged in contingent planning for a variety of potential fall scenarios. The Divided Community Project will be grateful if you … Continue reading Preparing Campus Leaders for the Return to Campus this Fall →

Perhaps your university has asked you, as a dispute resolution expert, what can be done quickly in a fall semester orientation or another one- to two-hour context. If so, the Divided Community Project at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law offers colleges and universities two new videos with accompanying checklists and a facilitation … Continue reading DCP Provides Resources for Teaching Students How to Manage Difficult Conversations →

I hope that you will share with your campus leaders a new tabletop simulation from the Divided Community Project — and maybe even offer to use your dispute resolution skills to facilitate the simulation and debrief for them. Your campus leaders can use “Tranquil Springs University” to check their readiness for a range of challenges … Continue reading DCP Offers Simulation to Prepare Campus Leaders for Challenges →

Janet Martinez, the former Director of Stanford Law School’s Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program, will deliver the 2024 Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution on March 20, 2024 at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.  Titled “System Design for Contemporary Justice”, the lecture will begin at 12:10 ET and conclude at or before 1:20.  … Continue reading Janet Martinez to deliver OSU’s 2024 Schwartz Lecture →

Groups of students in your classes may want to put their new collaborative skills and creativity into the service of others by entering a new student video contest, sponsored by the AAA-ICDR Foundation and the Divided Community Project’s #CampusBridge initiative. Please spread the word in your classes and share the contest announcement with your university’s … Continue reading Amazing Opportunity for Students to Improve Their Communities Using DR Skills →