Randy Lowry is the President of Lipscomb University, but better known in these parts as the founder of the Straus Institute at Pepperdine. Here’s a link to an interview he did on mediate.com with longtime mediator Robert Benjamin as a part of Mediate.com’s “The Mediators: Views from the Eye of the Storm” series. Enjoy.
It is my pleasure to introduce Danny Fridberg, a visiting scholar in the University of Oregon Judaic Studies department. Danny is completing a PhD at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on psycho-social transformative processes in situations of violent conflicts. We are lucky to … Continue reading Welcome Danny Fridberg
The New York Times has an interesting article today on how to get people to evacuate when big storms are coming. For those of us who study negotiation and persuasion, it’s instructive to see how disaster professionals conduct these kinds of short-term negotiations with huge groups of people. Here are the first three pieces of … Continue reading Negotiating to Evacuate
Regarding my earlier post, here is an update from FOI Kristen Blankley (Nebraska): The students at the University of Nebraska College of Law were interested in seeing additional programming in areas such as cultural competency, diversity, and access to justice. Responding to those ideas, the student-led initiative received support and coordination from the Law College’s … Continue reading Student-Facilitated Community Conversations, Continued
Out today on Law.com is an article discussing the current state of the business of ADR and I appreciate the shout out to the ABA DR section survey (published here) from the author Ben Hancock. His article is the first in a series addressing this problem. As the writer notes, It’s no secret that Big … Continue reading The Business of ADR–and Lack of Diversity
Here’s one last reminder about the University of Missouri’s symposium, Moving Negotiation Theory from the Tower of Babel Toward a World of Mutual Understanding, which will take place this Friday, October 7, from 9 am to noon Central Time. Click here if you want to watch it live-streamed or if you want to watch videos … Continue reading Last Call for the Tower of Babel Symposium
On Wednesday, October 5, the University of Nebraska College of Law is hosting a Community Conversations event (ComCon for short). More than a third of the law student body has agreed to participate — that’s 133 people! Kristen Blankley (Nebraska) has been instrumental in planning the ComCon, in which students will serve as facilitators of … Continue reading Student-Facilitated Community Conversations
Indisputably is intended to foster conversations linking dispute resolution scholarship, education, and practice. So we really love it when readers take part in these conversations by adding your comments. Because of a spate of spam some time ago, we have a system to approve comments before they get posted. Unfortunately, the website sometimes sends comments … Continue reading We Welcome Your Comments
In June, John Kiernan gave a talk in which he argued that the ADR field has reached a first level of maturity but “ADR remains far short of its full, what might be called ‘level two maturity.’” He gave the talk at a luncheon of Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York, where he … Continue reading How to Reach “Level Two Maturity” in Handling Civil Disputes
I recently had a chance to talk with Lainey Feingold, the author of a great new book on negotiation, which she describes below. Before I get to her description, I want to say a few words about why I think her book is particularly important. I have been writing about early dispute resolution, especially planned … Continue reading Lainey Feingold’s Book on Structured Negotiation
