Mercy Corps

The Roger Fisher House
9 Waterhouse St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 354-5444
www.mercycorps.org

Contact: Jenny Vaughan, Program Officer
jvaughan@cr.mercycorps.org

Mercy Corps is a relief and development organization that works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds. Our mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people … Read More 

The M.I.T.-Harvard Public Disputes Program

512 Pound Hall
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA 02138

Managing Directors: David Fairman and Patrick Field
Founder and Senior Advisor: Lawrence Susskind

Contact: Ed Minor
617-844-1113
eminor@cbuilding.org

The Public Disputes Program (PDP) seeks to bring together scholars and professionals to improve the practice of negotiation, mediation, and conflict management in the public sector. The Program undertakes basic and applied … Read More 

National Institutes of Health Office of the Ombudsman

Center for Cooperative Resolution
Building 31, Room 2B63
31 Center Drive, MSC 2087
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2087
Tel: (301) 594-7231
Fax: (301) 594-7948

http://ombudsman.nih.gov

Contacts:
Howard Gadlin
301-594-6916
gadlinh@od.nih.gov

Kevin Jessar
301-594-7231
jessark@od.nih.gov

The NIH, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way … Read More 

Resolution of Intra-Institutional Disputes

Ombudsperson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T. 10-213
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-5921

http://web.mit.edu/ombud

Contact: Mary P. Rowe
mrowe@mit.edu

Non-paid research assistantships are available on a selected basis. Areas of research include: development of intra-institutional dispute resolution systems procedures, scientific and technical disputes within institutions, harassment of all kinds. Particular interest this year: the role of bystanders in conflict management. … Read More 

Somerville Mediation Program

Somerville Community Corporation
One Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
617-625-6600 X6146

Contact: Alice Comack
acomack@k12.somerville.ma.us

There is an internship available in our peer-mediation program at Somerville High School. This program primarily handles disputes between students. Intern duties include conducting intake and setting up mediations, co-mediating and assisting in the training of student mediators. A requirement for this internship is … Read More 

Susan Podziba & Associates

21 Orchard Road
Brookline, MA 02445
contact@podziba.com

Tel: (617)738-5320
Fax: (617)738-6911

http://www.podziba.com

Contact: Susan Podziba
susan@podziba.com

Susan Podziba & Associates conducts processes that enable government to engage with stakeholders to resolve complex public policy questions and conflicts. SP&A designs unique processes to address seemingly impossible situations, guides complex multi-stakeholder deliberations to create actionable solutions, and works in diverse subject areas … Read More 

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Boston Area Office

John F. Kennedy Federal Building
475 Government Center
Boston, MA 02203
Tel: 1-800-669-4000
Fax: 617-565-3196

http://www.eeoc.gov/boston/index.html

Contact: Elizabeth Marcus, Mediator
(617) 565-3212
elizabeth.marcus@eeoc.gov

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1964 to eradicate discrimination in employment. The various statutes enforced by the Commission prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of … Read More 

Framingham Court Mediation Services, Inc.

600 Concord Street
Framingham, MA 01702
Tel: 508-872-9495
Fax: 508-872-9764
www.framinghammediation.org
info@framinghammediation.org

Contact: Susan Ostberg

FCMS, established in 1979, is a public, non-profit organization serving the communities of MetroWest, the Framingham, Concord, Marlborough, and Natick District Courts, and the Middlesex Juvenile Court, as well as the Middlesex Probate and Family Court. We provide alternative dispute resolution services for … Read More 

Advanced Negotiation/Mediation: Reconciliation (ConRes 603)
MCCORMACK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF POLICY STUDIES

FALL 2012

Instructor:
David E. Matz

This is a “changing topics” course. Each semester it examines the resolution of conflict in a different context(s); topics covered in the past have included Arab Israeli Negotiation, Women and Conflict, Public Policy Disputes, Organizational Conflict, and Workplace Conflict.  Specific focus and … Read More 

Conflict in Workgroups (ConRes 636)
MCCORMACK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF POLICY STUDIES

FALL 2012

Instructor:
Eben Weitzman
617-287-7489
www.disres.umb.edu

This course provides the participant with an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the dynamics of work groups, with an emphasis on processes of conflict within them, and to develop skills to deal constructively with intra- and inter- group … Read More