Since I started blogging in September 2014, I have written about whatever seemed like a good idea at the time. A lot of my posts highlight good friends and colleagues in our community and their work. This has not been a systematic or comprehensive effort to survey folks – just reactions to whatever happened to … Continue reading Good Friends and Colleagues
As you may have heard, Dwight Golann will receive the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s scholarship award this year. This has prompted a chorus of congratulations, and I join in the accolades for his work. For many reasons. Here are some of them. He continues to practice mediation and his mediations clearly inform his work. … Continue reading Appreciation of Dwight Golann
From AFOI Alyson Carrel: Last month, there were four interviews to celebrate the launch of the new book, Discussions in Dispute Resolution. Here is a link to a website featuring recordings of all four interviews. March 4 – Carrie Menkel-Meadow interviewed by Art Hinshaw about her article, Pursuing Settlement in an Adversary Culture: A Tale … Continue reading Past and Future Events
There’s too darn much ADR research. Too darn much if you have any hope of keeping up with it. We are blessed and cursed with an interest in a subject that deals with virtually every aspect of life and is studied in many different disciplines. So we are fortunate that Jim Coben and Donna Stienstra … Continue reading Coben & Stienstra’s Fabulous Annotated Bibliography of Empirical Research
From GFOIs Sharon Press and Noam Ebner: Dear Colleagues: The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution will once again host a virtual conference in April and we are pleased to announce that the Resource Share will take place live on Saturday, April 17, from 12:00 noon 1:00 pm Eastern. For those of you who are new … Continue reading Please Send Materials for This Year’s Resource Share
TODAY is the deadline for the EARLY BIRD RATES for the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution virtual conference, which will take place on April 14-17. Click here for more information and to register. [Click the title of the post for the link to the conference website.}
In the middle of the impeachment trial last week, I received a Westlaw email with links to the symposium on ADR’s Place in Navigating a Polarized Era, organized by Texas A&M and published in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution. The symposium could not be more timely and is well worth reading (though the … Continue reading ADR’s Place in Navigating a Polarized Era
Dr. Jacqueline Font-Guzmán will move to Eastern Mennonite University as the inaugural executive director of diversity, equity, and inclusion as of April 1. Currently, she is a professor of law and conflict studies and director in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Click … Continue reading Jackie Font-Guzmán Will Take New Position
The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) announced the following recipients of its 2021 Awards for contributions to ADR at a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, as part of CPR’s Annual Meeting. Outstanding Contribution to Diversity in ADR: Gail Wright, Esq. Outstanding Book in the Field of ADR: America’s Peacemakers: The … Continue reading CPR Awards
Forwarded by GFOI Lara Fowler: The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) believes that there is a great mutual benefit to be gained through collaboration with academic institutions. FMCS mediators, with their wealth of practical experience, have much to contribute to the learning and research in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). At the … Continue reading FMCS Seeks Collaboration with Universities
