Advanced Negotiation and Mediation (DisRes 603)
MCCORMACK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF POLICY STUDIES

SPRING

Instructor:
To be announced
617-287-7489
www.disres.umb.edu

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 syllabus is announced prior to registration; see http://www.disres.umb.edu/courses.php for details.

Advanced Intervention (DisRes 626)
MCCORMACK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF POLICY STUDIES

SPRING

Instructor:
Rezarta Bilali
617-287-7489
www.disres.umb.edu

This is a “changing topics” course. It applies the principles of mediation and other forms of intervention to a particular context(s), which change yearly; possibilities include intervention in environmental, family, organizational, health care, cultural, and international disputes. Specific focus and syllabus is announced prior to registration; see http://www.disres.umb.edu/courses.php for details.

Mediation in the Workplace (MMG 758)
CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

SUMMER

Instructor:
Moshe Cohen
800-877-4723 X0163

Workplace mediation supplements or replaces institutional conflict resolution processes in order to increase job satisfaction, boost productivity, reduce employee turnover and decrease the chance of legal action. The course is designed to give the students the theory and skills necessary to begin to practice mediation within their professional life. The course covers theory and models of mediation; stages of the mediation process; skill development and ethical considerations. The methodology is lecture, discussion, video and mediation simulations and role-plays. The texts for the course are The Mediation Process by Christopher Moore and The Promise of Mediation by Bush and Folger. Other readings will be provided by the instructor. There is the opportunity for students to apply the theory learned and practice the skills developed through mediating an actual case or through a written paper on a current real-life conflict between two other parties. There is no prerequisite; however, it is strongly recommended that students complete MMG746 prior to taking this course. (Tentative: within seven week summer term.)

International Mediation and Dialogue Skills
BRANDEIS PROGRAM IN CONFLICT AND COEXISTENCE

FALL

Instructor:
Theodore Johnson
International Center for Ethnics
781-736-8577

This course covers basic international mediation theory — the sources and methods used by successful international mediators through a case-study methodology. In addition, the course will examine the mediation process in practice — what do successful international mediators say or do to create and manage the actual process of third-party interventions? Specifically, the course will examine techniques and strategies for managing cross-cultural communication and a multi-ethnic communication process by creating a “holding space” of mutual respect, which is both effective and appropriately contextual for the problem-solving effort. Students in the Brandeis MA programs in Coexistence and Sustainable International Development will be given preference in registration; however, the course will be open to other students upon approval by the instructor. (Monday 2:00-5:00 p.m.)

Dialogue and Mediation Skills
BRANDEIS PROGRAM IN CONFLICT AND COEXISTENCE

FALL

Instructor:
Theodore Johnson
International Center for Ethnics
781-736-8577

Addresses the theoretical and practical approaches to mediation and facilitation skills for people and organizations working in areas of intercommunal conflict. Usually offered every year. Open only to students enrolled in the MA Program in Coexistence and Conflict. Other students considered with permission of the instructor. (Tuesday 1:40-4:30 p.m.)

Mediation Seminar
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

SPRING

Instructor:
R. Lisle Baker
781-643-8186

Mediation is becoming an increasingly important vehicle for resolving disputes that might otherwise go to court, or if in court, to trial. While the framework of litigation is well established, mediations often are shaped by both the nature of the dispute the nature of the disputants and the nature of the mediator.

This course helps students understand mediation as a form of consensual dispute resolution that assists the disputants in negotiating a resolution that is preferable to the litigation alternative. To that end, students begin learning basic negotiation theory and practice and then move to applying that learning in the mediation context. Students keep an extensive journal about their readings and their experiences in course simulations that form the basis of a brief paper on their own mediation skills. In lieu of an examination, students also write a paper that can involve both library and field research on some aspect of dispute resolution which they present to the seminar. The course writing is not available to satisfy the legal writing requirement. Enrollment is limited to 18 students and not available to students who have taken other mediation or negotiation courses. (Tuesday 4:00-4:50 p.m.; Thursday 4:00-5:50 p.m.)

Mediation
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

FALL
Instructor:
Ericka Gray
781-643-3577

This course introduces you to the theory and skills of mediation, examines current legal and policy issues in the field, surveys the practice of mediation in a range of areas including family, public policy, and commercial, and provides the opportunity to practice techniques as mediators and advocates in the mediation process through simulations. Students will complete a research paper in lieu of a final examination, which will fulfill the upper-level writing requirement. Grading is based on class participation, short writing and other assignments, and a research paper. Enrollment limited to 24. (Wednesday 4:00-5:40 p.m., plus one Friday and Saturday training workshop early in the semester.)

Mediation and Participatory Processes
Program on Negotiation

SPRING

This 12-week interactive seminar provides participants with the opportunity to examine the practice of mediation and the skills employed to reach consensus among parties with divergent interests and objectives. Central to this discussion will be the nature of third party intervention as a social process crucial to problem solving, conflict management and large-scale change.

Participants will explore ways to design third-party processes that foster an environment for conflict resolution. Using interactive simulations and case studies, students examine the impact of third-party intervention in interpersonal, environmental, commercial and international disputes.

PON seminars are open to participants from all disciplines and professional fields. Fluency in English is a must (suggested minimum score on TOEFL 570). Details and registration can be found here.

Mediation Clinic (ME900-D-02)
NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF LAW

FALL

Instructor:
Dawn Effron
617-451-0010

Students are placed in settings that expose them to mediation, ideally in placements in which the students themselves actually perform the mediations under close supervision. At least three students work under the supervision of the course instructor. Credit options must be selected with permission of the course instructor, since the credit selection may limit placement possibilities. (Day and time to be determine by placement.)

Mediation
NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF LAW

FALL and SPRING
Instructor:
Michele Dorsey
617-451-0010

This course focuses on legal, ethical, sociological, and procedural aspects of mediation and involves a series of student simulation exercises on fact patterns drawn from several of the following fields: divorce, child custody, land use, education, health care, construction employment and small business. Special attention is given to issues of whether mediation, as opposed to judicial proceedings, disempower the already weak. (Fall, 2 sections: 1) Monday 6:00-8:45 p.m.; 2) Thursday 4:0-6:45 p.m.; Spring, Tuesday 6:00-8:45 p.m.)