The Dispute Resolution Forum for March will feature Dr. Brian Polkinghorn, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Resolution at Salisbury State University in Salisbury, MD. He will present the findings from over 2000 surveys completed by mediators that form part of a nationwide evaluation of the US Equal
Mediation
A negotiation between two or more parties facilitated by an agreed-upon third party. Skilled third-party mediators can lower the emotional temperature in a negotiation, foster more effective communication, help uncover less obvious interests, offer face-saving possibilities for movement, and suggest solutions that the parties might have overlooked. (David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius, 3-D Negotiation [Harvard Business School Press, 2006], 108-109)
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Mindfulness in the Law & ADR
Moderated by Robert Mnookin
Mindfulness in the Law & ADR
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Join Leonard Riskin, Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the Program on Negotiation’s Robert Mnookin, and a panel of distinguished professors and professionals in a discussion of the role of mindfulness in the law and alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
Inspired by Professor Riskin’s
Employment ADR in the International Setting: Does Our Experience Have Any Transferability?
Presenter:
Arnold M. Zack
The United States has the reputation for effective use of mediation and arbitration of disputes in unionized workplaces. Anyone who has ever been inconvenienced abroad by frequent strikes of transit or government workers must wonder why other countries don’t adopt a system like ours, free of wildcat strikes. Arnold Zack, whose background and
Human Rights Center Founded at Fletcher
A new Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution has been established at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, one of PON’s consortium universities. The Center (CHRCR) is directed by Fletcher Professors Eileen F. Babbitt, a PON Associate and Hurst Hannum, a member of PON’s Faculty Seminar. Executive Director of the Center
Director of Curriculum Development Named
Melissa Manwaring has been appointed the Director of Curriculum Development. She assumes her duties at a time of transition for the Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse. Its distribution function has been outsourced to a commercial firm specializing in the distribution of educational materials. Its role at PON is being shifted in a more pro-active direction, toward
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