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PhD in International Conflict Management

I got an email earlier this week from Susan Raines at Kennesaw State University, with an announcement that their PhD program in International Conflict Management is accepting applicants. Program website here: http://phd.hss.kennesaw.edu/ I don’t know much about their program.  And unless I’m mistaken, it’s new enough that I shouldn’t feel badly about that particular aspect … Continue reading PhD in International Conflict Management

Course Scheduling as a Multi-Party Negotiation

I’m an Associate Dean.  My life during this season is dominated by creating, defending, adjusting, and then defending again a complex academic calendar.  The unworkable puzzle created by several dozen faculty members’ teaching preferences (not all of which are articulated until after they see something that fails to satisfy one or more of their interests) … Continue reading Course Scheduling as a Multi-Party Negotiation

ADR Academic Job: Werner Institute

From Ran Kuttner at Creighton: The Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Creighton University School of Law welcomes applications for a full-time faculty position in Conflict Resolution to begin August 2010. As Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution, the successful candidate will teach graduate courses in Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution. The position will … Continue reading ADR Academic Job: Werner Institute

UNLV Conference on Conflict Resolution & the Economic Crisis

From Jean Sternlight: On March 12-13 of this year the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution offered a conference entitled Conflict Resolution and the Economic Crisis.  Including approximately 30 speakers from around the country the conference focused on a variety of ways in which conflict resolution tools can be used effectively to deal with consequences of … Continue reading UNLV Conference on Conflict Resolution & the Economic Crisis

Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution – Symposium Issue

Volume 25, Issue 1.  TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY:TEACHING ADR AND THE FUTURE OF DISPUTE SYSTEM DESIGN A pdf of the Table of Contents is available here: (25-1 TOC). Abstracts of the articles appear below: Pedagogy, Progress and Portfolios: Professor Deborah Merritt talks about the possibility of portfolios as a method to innovate law school education, especially … Continue reading Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution – Symposium Issue

Conflict Resolution Quarterly – Call for Submissions

Conflict Resolution Quarterly is looking for more submissions.  (Guidelines here.) The journal tends to receive submissions in bunches (mostly during winter break and during summer break), so now would be a good time to send something in, if you’re thinking of trying to publish in CRQ.  They’ve got a good turnaround for a peer-reviewed journal … Continue reading Conflict Resolution Quarterly – Call for Submissions

Sister Helen Prejean

Sister Helen returned to the University of Oregon campus earlier this year, and you can access a free, YouTube version of her one-hour presentation on the death penalty, justice, reconciliation, forgiveness, and human rights here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOHAWOmdNG8 Michael Moffitt

Fordham Law Review symposium issue on Owen Fiss

… has now appeared in print [cluttering your mailboxes soon] and online [here]. My article is undoubtedly not the best researched.  (I’d personally give that prize to Amy Cohen’s article.) Mine may be the funniest, though.  That counts, right?  Please say “yes,” because I’m up for promotion this year, and that’s pretty much been my … Continue reading Fordham Law Review symposium issue on Owen Fiss

2010 Works-In-Progress, October in Oregon

The University of Oregon School of Law is pleased to host this year’s installment of the ADR Works-in-Progress Conference.  We’ll be gathering in Eugene, Oregon, October 15-16, 2010. Lots more information soon.  (No, Andrea, no details yet on precisely which local wines we’ll be serving.) For now, please mark the dates on your calendars and … Continue reading 2010 Works-In-Progress, October in Oregon

Football, Diplomacy, and The Onion

Surely there are fewer better proxies for legitimacy than to be the target of The Onion. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/saints_colts_hoping_to_resolve —— Saints, Colts Hoping To Resolve Super Bowl Through Diplomacy JANUARY 29, 2010 | ONION SPORTS MIAMI—Team officials from the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts emerged from a tense, 12-hour negotiating session Thursday and told reporters that, … Continue reading Football, Diplomacy, and The Onion